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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.

1,441 articles published

Gaming

VLTs and Cash Games: A Step Closer

As anticipated in a previous post , the draft decrees governing Videolotteries and online cash games were under the review of the European Commission for a 3 months “stand still” period. Such period is now over and only the Maltese government filed some comments on the decree regulating online cash games that however are not…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 30, 20090Comments

liability ISP

Website Ts&Cs: An Italian Internet law Issue!

Internet law can preserve some interesting issues for websites trying to enforce one-sided clauses in their Ts&Cs against Italian users.

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 27, 20090Comments

Gaming

Scratch & Win Receipts: Is it a Joke?

Italy has always been one of the countries with the highest rate of tax evasion. In this context, one of the main problems is that a number of shops, professionals and even companies do not issue receipts on all the purchases performed by their customers and clients. Therefore their “official” turnover is substantially lower than…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 25, 20090Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

VoIP: Something New in Italy

The Italian Communications Authority launched on 19 November 2009 an informative review concerning the "Guarantees for consumers and the protection of the competition with reference to VoIP voice services from mobile network and to peer to peer traffic" which will last 120 days. This review is aimed at ascertaining the technical, economic and legal aspects concerning the provision of…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 20, 20090Comments

Gaming

Still too early for mobile gaming?

The other day after having lost the tenth online auction because of the Internet connection speed of my smartphone, I started thinking about mobile gaming, mobile payments and how difficult is still to purchase an item on an e-commerce website using a smartphone. Despite the considerable increase of the number of smartphones in Italy (we…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 18, 20090Comments

Gaming

Big Figures for the Italian Gaming Market

eGaming Review has defined - in a recent report - the Italian market "huge". Indeed - according to the report - the Italian market is expected to become by the end of 2009 the largest European gaming market generating a turnover of € 18.7 bn. Also, these figures are likely to considerably increase in the next years taking into account that the percentage of…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 13, 20090Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Stricter Privacy Rules in the Communications Sector

Following a number of discussions on the topic, the revised version of the ePrivacy Directive governing the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector will be shortly adopted by the European Commission. The current proposal prescribes: Mandatory Notification of Personal Data Breaches: communications providers and…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 10, 20090Comments

Gaming

“Only” 8 New Casinos?

I had discussed in a previous post about the draft law decree filed by Ms. Brambilla, the Italian Ministry of the Tourism, allowing the opening of casinos in all the Italian five stars hotels. This law proposal have been highly criticized also because according to the press it would have led to very…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 7, 20090Comments

Gaming

Four Years of Imprisonment for Online Betting Founder

OUT-LAW.COM reports that Mr. Kaplan, the founder of BetOnSports.com, has been jailed for four years in the United States since Internet gambling is there illegal under local laws and Kaplan and his company were offering their games to US residents through the Internet, even if the company was based in Costa Rica. This news raises the interesting…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 4, 20090Comments

Gaming

Italian and Foreign Casinos fear VLT Casinos

Playbonuscasino.com reports that Italian casinos and foreign casinos located close to Italian borders fear the negative consequences that might potentially derive from the launch of Videolottery casinos. As already discussed , the setting up of gaming halls dedicated to Videlotteries (VLTs) (the so called "VLT casinos") is expected to lead to considerable changes in the…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 1, 20090Comments