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
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
Media Intelligence is a bulletin from DLA Piper Media & Sports Group. The November 2011 issue is now out. We hope you will enjoy it![Read More]
Posted by Gianluigi Marino on Saturday 05 Nov 2011
The court of Bologne (Italy) issued an interesting decision on the liability of managers of Forums. The decision was issued as part of an interim proceeding started by a company challenging the liability of Yahoo! for defamatory messages published by some users on Yahoo! Answers. In particular, the claimant required the removal of the challenged comments, the disclosure of the data of users that posted such comments and the refund of damages suffered because of the defamatory comments.
[Read More] Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Sunday 11 Sep 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 Italian Court of Appeal overturned the recent decision of the Court of Rome reported in a previous post against Yahoo! relating to the alleged breach by Yahoo! of intellectual property rights through links to websites allowing the streaming view, the downloading or P2P transfer of the movie "About Elly".
[Read More]Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Sunday 17 Jul 2011
The regulation setting out the framework that confers supervision and enforcement duties on the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) has been approved today and will now be subject to a public consultation.
[Read More]Posted by Matia Campo on Wednesday 06 Jul 2011
Following a public consultation completed a couple of weeks ago, the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) has published the new regulation concerning DTT linear media service providers, interactive/conditional access service providers, and network providers.[Read More]
Posted by Alessandro Ferrari on Monday 04 Jul 2011
Prize competitions run on Social Media can hide unexpected regulatory surprises for entities interested in advertising their products/services. [Read More]
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Tuesday 14 Jun 2011
We receive more and more requests of advice from clients having a Fan Page on Social Networks dedicated to their company trademark or one of their major products in relation to the liability for the contents published on the Fan Page. Lots of issues and questions can arise in relation to such topic. [Read More]
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Thursday 02 Jun 2011
Media Intelligence is a bulletin from DLA Piper Media & Sports Group. The May 2011 issue is now out. We hope you will enjoy it![Read More]
Posted by Gianluigi Marino on Wednesday 01 Jun 2011
The Court of Appeal of Catania (Sicily) has issued an Interesting decision against the blog "Accadeinsicilia.it" run by a famous Italian historian Carlo Ruta providing (not on a regular basis) information on Sicily. The Court of Catania challenged to Mr. Ruta that the blog was not enrolled in the Court registry as requested by Italian press law in relation to all press material and issued a fine of € 150 against Mr. Ruta. [Read More]
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Monday 30 May 2011
The Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) has recently launched a public consultation on a new proposed regulation concerning DTT linear media service providers, interactive/conditional access service providers, and network providers.[Read More]
Posted by Alessandro Ferrari on Friday 27 May 2011
Media Intelligence is a bulletin from DLA Piper Media & Sports Group. The April 2011 issue is now out. We hope you will enjoy it![Read More]
Posted by Gianluigi Marino on Sunday 01 May 2011
Technology and Sourcing News is the regular e-newsletter which rounds up breaking news and key developments in technology and sourcing globally[Read More]
Posted by Chiara Garofoli on Thursday 28 Apr 2011
On April 19th, 2011, European Commission Vice President N Kroes announced that the European Commission will be monitoring the implementation of the "net neutrality" principle set forth by Directive 2002/21/CE - as amended by Directive 2009/140/CE (the "Directive") - due to enter into force on May 25th, 2011.[Read More]
Posted by Alessandro Ferrari on Friday 22 Apr 2011
Life is getting harder and harder in Italy for search engines. After the recent decision involving Yahoo!, the court of Milan has now issued another interesting decision on the liability of search engines with particular reference to a potential defamatory conduct arising through the usage of Google's service "suggest search".
[Read More]Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Wednesday 06 Apr 2011