After a never-ending waiting, the Italian casino games and cash poker games decree has been finally published on the Official Gazette and has now come into force. In a nutshell the decree prescribes that: operators need to go through an authorization process relating to their platform and each game they intend to…
It seems that the tolerance of the Italian Gaming Authority (AAMS) to the unlawful offer of remote games to Italian residents in absence of an Italian remote gaming license has now reached an end. AAMS has challenged to Betfair Italia, the company of the Betfair group holding an Italian remote gaming license (under which it…
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has now closed the proceeding against Google concerning the abuse of dominant position with reference to Google News, subsequently extended also to Google AdSense. The Italian Competition Authority has accepted the undertakings submitted by Google relating to: the setting up of a dedicated software…
The Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has launched a public consultation aimed at setting new regulations on the protection of copyright on electronic communications networks that include both Internet and television networks. The document attached to the public consultation notice sets out the guidelines of the regulations that AGCOM is willing to issue and addresses specific…
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued an interesting Opinion on the dispute L'Orรฉal vs. eBay relating to the purchase by eBay of keywords (e.g. AdWords keywords) identical to L'Orรฉal's registered trademarks linking to eBay listings offering for sale both infringing goods and non-infringing goods and whether eBay could be deemed liable for the…
The European Court of Justice has issued an interesting decision in relation to the rules of jurisdiction applicable to contractual relationships between consumers and websites based in other EU Member States. According to the EU Regulation 44/2001 on the jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, the courts of the domicile…
The never ending saga of the Italian decree regulating cash poker games and casino games seems to be almost over. The Administrative Court of Lazio Region rejected the claim brought by one of the major Italian gaming operators, Microgame, against the decree. Indeed, earlier this year, the Administrative Court of Lazio Region had ordered the…
After the launch of the videolotteries (VLT) in the Italian gaming market, now it is time to see what happened in the last months. Here is the first information available: around 4,500 VLTs have been installed so far out of almost 57,000 VLTs that operators are entitled to install and 253 VLT gaming halls have been…
The Italian Gaming Authority has now published the โOfficial Data On Remote Gamingโ reviewing the data generated by the sector during this year up to 31 October 2010. I believe there are no major surprises: while horse betting games are suffering a deep crisis with a decrease of the value of bets of 12.9%, fixed…
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