Outsourcing agreements are always a new adventure and trying to find the best contractual arrangement is not easy. ย And this task is even harder in outsourcing agreements where the supplier provides a large part of the services and licenses necessary to run the business usually on the basis of a profit sharing arrangement. ย This situation might lead to relevant tax related risks because of the willingness of the supplier to control the business.
Internet liability rules applicable to Wikipedia are different from the ones with which YouTube has to comply according to the Court of Rome as Wikipedia has now been declared not liable to for the defamatory contents published by its users.
Data protection issues for Google in Italy are not over. ย The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has now challenged their privacy information notice requiring - among others - an express consent from users to their profiling for marketing purposes leading to issues that might impact any business based on the processing of BIG DATA such as the Internet of Things and in general on behavioural advertising.
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.
Bitcoin and its potential usage as part of money laundering crimes as well as of crimes associated with terrorism has been the subject of concerns raised by the UIF, the harm of the Bank of Italy dedicated, among others, to receive anti-money laundering reports of suspicious transactions. ย But the reaction from other Governments and e-commerce operators are different.
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 hereย covering gaming law issues affecting those machines. Also, if you have questions or comments on the covered topics or want to receive the recording of the presentation,ย as usual feel…
The European Commission issued standardization guidelines for cloud computing service level agreements with the goal of improving consistency in service level agreements at the global level to be used by entities willing to enter into outsourcing agreements with cloud providers.ย
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'รจ gioco e gioco" (in English: there is game and game) that will be held in Milan at theย Circolo della Stampa in Sala Montanelli located at C.so Venezia, 48.
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.
For those that missed some of the posts of last month, here are the top 5 posts for June 2014.ย