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Giulio Coraggio

I am the location head of the Italian Intellectual Property & Technology department and the global co-head of the IoT and Gaming and Gambling groups at the world-leading law firm DLA Piper. IoT and artificial intelligence influencer and FinTech and blockchain expert, finding solutions to what's next for our client's success.

1,438 articles published

Gaming

Ban on Gambling Advertising?

A law proposal relating to the possible ban of advertising practices in the gambling sector in Italy is currently under discussion. This comes from a number of law proposals which are aimed at better protecting players introducing for instance measures for the blocking on transactions to non-Italian licensed websites, the increase of penalties against…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 13, 20120Comments

Gaming

Gaming Conference Discloses Relevant Growth

The gaming conference of the University of Milan disclosed a growth of 7% of the Italian online gaming market in 2011 driven by the launch of casino and cash poker games while the "traditional" games (i.e. sportsbetting, bingo, poker tournament and skill games) showed a reduction of 20%. The Politecnico di Milano which is…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 7, 20120Comments

Gaming

What a Relief!

Italian licensed operators have spent a very nice week-end, the frightening increase in the taxation for casino games, cash poker games and videolotteries has not been included in the so called fiscal decree approved last Friday. We shall monitor the situation in the next months to see whether the…

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 27, 20120Comments

Gaming

Stanley Bet Case, A Victory for Who?

During the last days everyone has been discussing about the "crazy" potential Italian gaming tax changes and the consequences of the decision of the European Court of Justice on the Costa Cifone case involving the Italian licensing regime. However maybe it was slightly missed the exact scope of the decision. As…

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 22, 20120Comments

Gaming

Tax Regime and Fight Against Foreign Websites?

According to rumours the Government is planning to change the tax regime applicable to casino and cash poker games and to introduce stricter measures against the offering of games to Italian players through non-Italian licensed gaming websites. The main changes might involve the tax regime for cash games and casino games switching from a…

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 14, 20120Comments

Gaming

Gaming affiliation websites – legal issues on their way!

Gaming affiliation websites have never been thorough reviews in Italy on the gaming law obligations applicable to them maybe because of the difficulty to enforce Italian court decisions against foreign websites. However, such conduct is regulated and the applicable sanctions are considerably high.

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 7, 20120Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Electronic health record and data protection

The collection of medical personal data relating to health conditions of patients through the so called electronic health records in cloud databases is recently becoming more and more frequent with the development of the eHealth system, but relevant privacy issues are triggered.

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 29, 20120Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Privacy Obligations: Life is Easier!

"Documento Programmatico sulla Sicurezza" not required anymore! The Italian Government has approved the law decree aimed at simplifying a number of regulatory obligations including privacy obligations. As part of a broad package of regulations that are intended to reduce bureaucratic obligations for companies, governmental authorities and consumers the Italian Government has also removed the obligation…

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 28, 20120Comments

Gaming

Betting Exchange and Virtual Events Bills to EU

AAMS, the Italian gambling authority, has notified to the European Commission the draft decrees regulating betting exchange games and bets on virtual events . These decrees have been long awaited from the approval of the so called Abruzzo Decree in 2009 that set out the tax regime applicable to both games…

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 17, 20120Comments

Intellectual Property liability ISP

Google’s Victory Might Be A Short Success

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. RTI had requested the court of Rome to prevent Google from publishing on its blogging platform, Blogger, the images of football…

ByGiulio CoraggioDecember 26, 20110Comments