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Giulio Coraggio

I am the location head of the Italian Intellectual Property & Technology department and the global co-head of the IoT and Gaming and Gambling groups at the world-leading law firm DLA Piper. IoT and artificial intelligence influencer and FinTech and blockchain expert, finding solutions to what's next for our client's success.

1,393 articles published

Technology

Internet of Things and telecom law issues

Internet of Things technologies require the communication between devices on telecom networks that vary depending on the type of service provided. Such communications in some cases lead to telecom law issues in relation to the possibility to use the relevant telecom network and obligations triggered by such usage. These are among the issues that the Italian telecom authority, AGCOM and the UK telecom authority, OFCOM, will be discussing during the current consultation on the Internet of Things.

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 25, 20140Comments

Gaming

Troubles for B Plus create new videolottery opportunities?

The status of the Italian videolottery market might considerably change after the new measures ordered against B Plus Giocolegale Ltd., one the largest Italian videolottery and AWP (comma 6A) operators, which placed the company in a status of "extraordinary and temporary management".

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 11, 20140Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

RFID logo and data protection test to boast the market

The approval of technical standards introducing an RFID logo and a process for their data protection impact assessment required to comply with the EU Recommendation on RFIDs are expected to boost their usage in several fields including the Internet of Things.

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 4, 20140Comments

Technology

Internet of Things – Italian telecom authority seeks inputs

The Internet of Things (IoT) will enable devices to communicate and share data with one another and data to be combined and used across multiple applications. However, such applications also raise relevant legal issues. The Italian Telecom Authority (AGCOM) has for this purpose just launched a consultation on the Internet of Things in order to understand how to better foster this market whose value will reach $ 7.1 trillion in sales by 2020.

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 4, 20140Comments

Commercial

Outsourcing agreements – between JVs and services deals

Outsourcing agreements are always a new adventure and trying to find the best contractual arrangement is not easy. And this task is even harder in outsourcing agreements where the supplier provides a large part of the services and licenses necessary to run the business usually on the basis of a profit sharing arrangement. This situation might lead to relevant tax related risks because of the willingness of the supplier to control the business.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 31, 20140Comments

Internet liability liability ISP

No Internet liability for Wikipedia re its users’ defamatory contents

Internet liability rules applicable to Wikipedia are different from the ones with which YouTube has to comply according to the Court of Rome as Wikipedia has now been declared not liable to for the defamatory contents published by its users.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 28, 20140Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Data protection issues for Google trouble BIG DATA businesses

Data protection issues for Google in Italy are not over. The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has now challenged their privacy information notice requiring - among others - an express consent from users to their profiling for marketing purposes leading to issues that might impact any business based on the processing of BIG DATA such as the Internet of Things and in general on behavioural advertising.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 22, 20140Comments

Internet liability liability ISP

Internet liability rules change after YouTube case?

The Internet liability regime for hosting providers have been subject of different interpretations by courts in Italy and a new interesting position came up with the decision of the Court of Turin (Italy) involving YouTube and Google which overturned its initial decision of a few months ago introducing new principles of Internet liability for online operators.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 18, 20140Comments

FinTech

Bank of Italy warns on Bitcoin and potential criminal conducts

Bitcoin and its potential usage as part of money laundering crimes as well as of crimes associated with terrorism has been the subject of concerns raised by the UIF, the harm of the Bank of Italy dedicated, among others, to receive anti-money laundering reports of suspicious transactions. But the reaction from other Governments and e-commerce operators are different.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 14, 20140Comments