How to regulate copyright on the Internet? You may recall that over 2 years ago the Italian Communications Authority was meant to approve regulations on the protection of copyright over the Internet resembling the US DMCA. However, at that time no action had been taken, but the chairman of the Italian competition authority has now sent…
The court of Varese (Italy) held that a blogger was liable of the defamation crime because of the comments published by some of her users on a forum available on her blog since as administrator of the blog she had the " availability" of the website which triggered a liability for both the contents published…
Ryanair has been sanctioned to the payment of an € 400K fine as their advertised flight fares were not inclusive of an additional cost for the usage of credit cards whose charging has been in any case deemed in breach of applicable regulations. The Italian competition authority which has jurisdiction also on misleading…
The Italian competition authority sanctioned with a fine of EUR 150,000 the advertising over the Internet of a franchising network of travel agencies as the advertised affiliation price did not include the price for all the services and equipment required by the affiliation network and did not specify that value added tax had to be…
As anticipated, Google's managers have been acquitted by the Italian Court of Appeal in the privacy-related dispute famous as Vividown. The reasoning of the decision has now been published and it is interesting to see that the court based its decision on the absence of any monitoring obligation on Google as to the videos published…
The Italian Data Protection Authority held that data protection obligations in case of performance of marketing, advertising and commercial activities still apply to data of companies and associations. The problem had arisen since in 2011 the Italian Government had removed from the definition of "personal data" and "data subjects" for the…
Compliance issues of social gaming are still a problem for many operators offering games in Italy. And indeed there are several regulatory issues to take into account.
Lawyers' review of TV ads is in most of the case considered as an expensive waste of time, but in some cases it can lead to relevant savings. It happens quite often that marketing managers call us complaining for the comments (issues) raised on their ready-to-be-launched TV ad just claiming that their "similar"…
According to rumours the Government is planning to change the tax regime applicable to casino and cash poker games and to introduce stricter measures against the offering of games to Italian players through non-Italian licensed gaming websites. The main changes might involve the tax regime for cash games and casino games switching from a…
Gaming affiliation websites have never been thorough reviews in Italy on the gaming law obligations applicable to them maybe because of the difficulty to enforce Italian court decisions against foreign websites. However, such conduct is regulated and the applicable sanctions are considerably high.