As every year I will be in London for the ICE Gaming conference from the 3rd to the 5th of February. If you want to meet up to discuss or just to have a beer, please send an email to me, Giulio Coraggio at giulio.coraggio@gmail.com. Also follow me on Twitter, Google+ and become one of…
The Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) launched a public consultation on the new draft regulations on the authorization process for transferring the ownership of broadcasters, including network operators or companies (or lines of business) holding media services authorizations. The new draft regulation aims at simplifying the process, setting up a single step for…
Cyber bullying might be better prevented as a consequence of the self-regulatory code whose draft version is now subject to a consultation run by the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development. Bullying and harassments against minors have become more and more frequent because of the usage of electronic means and in…
The Italian Data Protection Authority just launched a consultation on privacy-related obligations applicable to remote mobile payments that is based on draft regulations attached to the consultation document.
Here is my very personal top 5 of topics that I covered in 2013 on this blog, looking at their impact on the market and their potential implications in 2014.
The web tax previously covered has now become more and more a Google tax given that its final approved version relates only to online ads and sponsored links, but the main issue concerns the obligations deriving from this provision in terms of Internet liability principles.
For those of you who have not been able to attend theย Webinar on wearable technologies in the healthcare sector - Remote patient monitoring eHealth systemย yesterday, I have postedย here ย my presentation covering wearable technology issues, eHealth and the Internet of Things. Also, if you have questions or comments on the covered topics or want…
As a follow-up to the recent webinar on wearable technologies whose slides are available here, we are running a new webinar tomorrow 19 December 2013 at 6 pm CET (which is 5 pm UK time and 9 am PST) where we will focus on the privacy, medical devices and IP related legal issues connected…
The Italian Government has just approved a law decree that apparently will introduce copyright-related measures aimed at sorting disputes relating to the usage of news contents by search engines and news aggregators. The law decree has not been published yet and therefore its detailed contents are not known, but it appears that the…
After considerable delays, the Italian communications Authority (AGCOM) has finally published the regulations on the protection of copyright on the Internet and media also providing a notice and take down procedure for potential copyright breaches. The regulations make prescribe a proceeding to be initiated only upon request of the rights' holder to the AGCOM…