Gaming Archives | GamingTechLaw by Giulio Coraggio

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".

Seminar on AWPs and videolotteries – Slides of my presentation!

For those of you who have not been able to attend the seminar on AWPs and videolotteries earlier this week, I have posted here my presentation here covering gaming law issues…

Gaming seminar C’è gioco e gioco!

I am glad to inform you that I have will be participating as a speaker tomorrow 7 July 2014 to the gaming seminar named "C'è gioco e gioco" (in English: there is game and game) that will be held in Milan at the Circolo della Stampa in Sala Montanelli located at C.so Venezia, 48.

Horse betting market boosted by new gaming law provisions?

Gaming law changes to sports betting regulations set the ground for the upcoming horse betting regulations that are meant to stop the decline of the horse betting market in Italy and boost its growth.

Data Protection & Cybersecurity Gaming liability ISP Technology

Bitcoin and gaming – what legal issues?

Issues affecting Bitcoin and gaming are becoming a very frequent topic of discussion since a number of gaming websites decided to allow Bitcoin transactions. Even relevant gambling regulators decided to take actions to protect both operators and players in case of Bitcoin transactions to set a friendly environment where such virtual currency can be used. However, the usage of Bitcoin leads to potential gaming law issues as well as non-gaming related issues.

Jun 2014

World Cup is coming & the Italian sportsbetting market?

With the football World Cup upcoming, it is time for the Italian sportsbetting market to look at what happened in the last 12 months in terms of gaming law changes and plan the next steps.

Data Protection & Cybersecurity Gaming

Jun 2014

Cookies in Italy…, finally with guidelines!

Cookies in Italy finally got more clear rules with the issue of the guidelines by the Italian Data Protection Authority on the matter. These followed a long consultation subsequent to the coming into force of the law setting the boundaries of one of the most relevant data protection issues of the last years.

Data Protection & Cybersecurity Gaming liability ISP Technology

Jun 2014

Online poker variants approved in Italy!

The Italian gambling regulator, AAMS, has just issued guidelines setting gaming law principles for poker tournaments with variable prizes and multiphase poker tournaments that might attract new interest to online poker in Italy.