The Italian Supreme Court held yesterday that blogs cannot be qualified as newspapers and consequently shall not be subject to the relative registration and liability obligations.
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Friday 11 May 2012
Apple's fine previous issued by the Italian Competition Authority has now been confirmed by the Administrative Court of Lazio Region.
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Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Friday 23 Mar 2012
The Court of Rome on a case between Google and the Italian TV company, RTI, has issued an interesting decision on liability of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) whose beneficial effects might be considerably affected by the upcoming regulatory developments.
[Read More] Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Monday 02 Jan 2012
A very interesting conference at the University of Milan on “eCommerce B2c in Italy” unveiled quite unexpected surprises that come a few days after the approval of the new EU Directive on Consumers Rights which will better protect eCommerce buyers.[Read More]
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Thursday 10 Nov 2011
As already anticipated, following the completion of the highly debated consultation concerning Italian regulations governing the liability of Internet Service Providers for copyright breaches, the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has issued a draft of the new regulations.[Read More]
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Sunday 24 Jul 2011
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued an interesting Opinion on the dispute L'Oréal vs. eBay relating to the purchase by eBay of keywords (e.g. AdWords keywords) identical to L'Oréal's registered trademarks linking to eBay listings offering for sale both infringing goods and non-infringing goods and whether eBay could be deemed liable for the trademark infringement performed through the goods traded on its platform.
[Read More]Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Friday 10 Dec 2010
A UK Court has recently issued a decision which may have an impact on the online news market. According to the Court, providers of paid news monitoring and aggregation services which send their customers links to news published by others commit an act of copyright infringement if they do not obtain the consent from the relevant publishers.[Read More]
Posted by Alessandro Ferrari on Wednesday 08 Dec 2010
In Italy it is very common to be faced with contracts requiring the non-drafting party to sign twice. The need for a second signature is traditionally meant to flag out to the party with the weaker bargaining power and which, faced with general T&Cs drafted by the other party, has no chance to negotiate that certain clauses might entail an imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations.
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Posted by Chiara Garofoli on Thursday 30 Sep 2010