Prize promotions might have an easier life in Italy due to clarifications just issued by the Ministry that however do not sort all the issues especially for international and social media promotions.
10
Internet liability
Here are some interesting articles on Italian and international internet liability law related issues drafted by either Giulio Coraggio or the other authors of GamingTechLaw.
31
28
Internet liability principles are increasingly tested with the growth of social media. And we receive a large number of requests of advice from clients running a fan page, a group or a list on social networks dedicated to either their company trademark/brand or to one of their major products in relation to the liability for the contents published on such fan pages.
08
Yahoo! does not have to remove the links to the copyright protected videos belonging to RTI available through the results of its video search engine since the Court of Milan held that in the provision of such service it is a caching provider rather than an active hosting provider as previously held with reference to Yahoo! Video.
11
Right to be forgotten related issues have become a very popular after the decision of the European Court of Justice against Google on the matter. And interesting topics arose from the public meeting held yesterday in Rome by Google's Advisory Council with some local experts to discuss how the ruling on the right to be forgotten should be adopted.
28
18
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.
04
There is no need of a web tax dedicated to digital companies according the report from the Expert Group on Taxation of the Digital Economy established by the European Commission, but the current general rules should be applied also to digital companies. However, recent court decisions and delegation laws leave some risks open in relation to the Internet liability regime of web companies for tax purposes.
28
World cup guidelines on the usage of its trademarks in connection with the upcoming Brazil Football World Cup have been issued by FIFA. These created some concerns on advertisers about to launch their marketing campaigns associated to the event. Indeed they might have planned to display world cup trademarks, images of football players and maybe had also considered to perform ambush marketing campaigns also relevant under a gaming law perspective.
15
YouTube Internet liability might be impacted by the recent decision of the Court of Turin issued as part of an interim proceeding where it found YouTube not liable for the videos published on its video sharing platform by its users in breach of Delta TV Programs' intellectual property exploitation rights.