The Italian Gambling Authority has now published the data relating to April and the first quarter 2011. The growth of the market went beyond any expectation and indeed the aggregate turnover (both online and offline) of the first quarter 2011 was of โฌ 24 bn with an increase of 18.2% if compared to the same…
After several articles on the decree governing new Italian remote gaming licenses and casino and cash poker games, I believe it is useful to have a summary of the above to avoid to get lost! After more than a year of delays, the Italian decree regulating online poker casino games and poker cash…
The Italian Government has recently approved a decree amending some of relevant provisions of the Italian Privacy Code aimed at simplifying the privacy obligations for Italian businesses. In short, these are the main changes: COMPANIES' PERSONAL DATA: Italy was one of the very few EU countries…
The Italian Videolottery market is growing faster than initially expected. According to the data available on the press, 19,000 VLTs (out of the 57,000 that concessionaires can instal) have been installed so far generating a turnover during the first 3 months of 2011 of โฌ 2.2 billions (i.e. โฌ 1,280 per machine/day) with each VLT…
The decree regulating the issue of new Italian remote gaming licenses contains also some interesting surprises for operators. The sample of the gaming account agreement attached to the new license agreement to be entered by both the current licensed operators and by the new entrants in the market provides. A GOOD NEWS:…
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, Cruz Villalon, has issued a very interesting opinion on the possibility for courts to order Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter and block files infringing copyrights. The background information is the following: Sabam, the Belgian association of authors and editors, brought a claim…
Life is getting harder and harder in Italy for search engines. After the recent dispute 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". Google "suggest search" service is a software that…
The Court of Rome has issued aย decisionย on the Internet liability of search engines that will lead to considerable discussions.ย PFA Films S.r.l., as exclusive licensee of exploitation rights on the movie โAbout Ellyโ of the directorย Asghar Farhadi, brought an interim injunction before the Court of Rome against Google Italy S.r.l., Yahoo! Italia S.r.l. and Microsoft S.r.l. (as owner of the search engine Bing) because of the breach of their IPRsย through links to websitesย allowing the streaming view, the downloading or P2P transfer of the movie without PFAโs consent.
After the final approval of the decree regulating the issue of new Italian gaming licenses and of the decree on casino and cash poker games, here are the final FAQs to help operators willing to apply for one of the Italian online gaming licenses:
Q. - Why do I need an Italian gaming license…
The Italian Gambling Authority (AAMS) has now published the decree on the new Italian remote gaming licenses (the so called "Comunitaria Decree") that also regulates the upgrade of the current licenses. We expect that AAMS will publish tomorrow the implementing decrees on the its website. This is a great news as the…