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. This decision terminates a never-ending saga that saw the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal holding that blogs have to be enrolled in the Court registry as requested…
We had reported in a previous post about the decision of the Court of Milan against Google for defamation arising from the usage of Google "suggest search" service. Interestingly, one year later the court of Pinerolo took a complete opposite view. The case relates to an entrepreneur who found out that…
Lowering of taxation for sportsbetting games, licenses for betting shops, dedicated bank account and further delays on the launch of live poker in the law of ratification of the so called Fiscal Decree. A law just published on the Italian Official Gazette provides the following: S portsbetting Taxes: i t has…
A law providing the award of 2,000 Italian betting shop licenses is expected to be approved in the next days and the decree regulating the offering of bets on virtual events in Italy obtained the approval from the European Commission. Following the decision of the European Court of Justice in Costa Cifone case ,…
The main issue of Italian sportsbetting regulations currently is that operators are allowed to offer only events and types of bets included in the official list issued by AAMS (the so called " palinsesto"), but this is going to change shortly as a consequence of a draft decree now notified to the European Commission.…
The Italian Data Protection Authority has published guidelines on the processing of personal data on health-related websites which provide stringent requirements. Websites, forum, blogs but even social networks that are dedicated to health-related issues provide advice, exchange of information and contain comments from users that in some cases can reveal very sensitive data about their…
We had reported of a law proposal aimed at introducing a complete ban on gambling advertising in Italy . However the latest good news are that more likely Italy will adopt an approach similar to the UK. According to the latest news, the Italian Government is going to submit to the Parliament an…
A Law Decree introducing the so called electronic health record, online examination record and in general the digitalization of the medical sector is about to be ratified by the Italian Parliament boosting the eHealth sector in Italy This considerable change provides the adoption of the electronic management of health files through the…
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"…