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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

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Send To A Friend – what privacy and legal issues ?

Nowadays it is very common on most of the e-commerce and news websites to see an icon or a tool allowing users to forward the listing, a special offer or an article to a friend. But are we sure that such practice does not face privacy and prize promotions regulatory restrictions?

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 26, 20100Comments

Gaming

French ISPs ordered to Block Gaming Website

OUT-LAW.COM reports that a French court ordered French ISPs to block the access for two months to a website offering games to French residents without holding a local gambling license. This decision reminds me that Italian gambling law obliges from 2007 ISPs to implement filters blocking the access to websites…

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 18, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Prize Competitions: Important Changes

Most of the companies active in the Italian market are likely to have faced at least once the complex regime governing prize competitions (i.e. marketing initiatives awarding prizes in kind based on the chance or the ability of the participants) and prize operations (i.e. marketing initiatives awarding prizes to all the participants purchasing…

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 3, 20100Comments

Gaming

Philippines Gaming Laws: An Overview

Thanks to Joanna Dizon, here we have a very interesting article on the Philippines Gaming laws, if you want to write an article for GamingTechLAW, just drop an email to me, Giulio Coraggio. Enjoy the article!

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 28, 20100Comments

Gaming

New Italian Remote Licenses: Here Are The Rules

As expected, the Italian Gaming Authority has notified to the European Commission the draft decree setting out the new Italian licensing regime. The draft decree will be subject to the review of the European Commission up to the 15th of October 2010 and, if no comments are raised by the other EU Member…

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 15, 20100Comments

Intellectual Property liability ISP

Keywords Can Lead To Trademark Breach

After the long awaited landmark Louis Vuitton v. Google decision , the European Court of Justice (the "ECJ ") has issued another interesting decision on the use keywords in search advertising systems (e.g. AdWords) that however reviews the issue on the advertisers' side. The ECJ held that a trademark holder can prohibit from advertising…

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 12, 20100Comments

Gaming

Casino Games: 63% growth in 2013!

The launch of online slots in Italy led to a 63% growth of the online casino games sector in 2013 according to a report from the University of Milan. Online slots were launched in Italy at the end of 2012 and now represent 50% of € 240 million GGR generated in 2013 from…

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 8, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Cookies & Behavioral Ads: The Rules

The Article 29 Working Party , the European Union data protection advisory body, issued an interesting opinion on online behavioral advertising , i.e. the tracking of users when they surf the Internet and the building of profiles over time, which are later used to provide them with advertising matching their interests . Rules…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 27, 20100Comments

Intellectual Property

Modifying Consoles Is A Crime

The Italian Criminal Court of Cassation has issued an interesting decision against two resellers of gaming consoles selling devices, the so called "modchips", aimed at removing the technological measures of protection embedded in gaming consoles by the relative manufacturers. Article 171-ter, letter f-bis, of Italian Copyright Law, implementing the Copyright Directive 2000/29/EC, sanctions with…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 25, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Virtualization and Cloud Computing: risks and opportunities

This is to inform you about a very interesting conference named “Virtualizzazione e Cloud Computing: rischi ed opportunitità” (Virtualization and Cloud Computing: risks and opportinuties) that will be held on the 23rd of June 2010 in Milan at Palazzo Turati. The conference will see the participation of world famous lecturers, managers and attorneys. I believe…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 21, 20100Comments