Internet Liability Law Archive - GamingTechLaw by Giulio Coraggio

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TripAdvisor has been sanctioned by the Italian competition authority (AGCM) for the misleading advertising claims relating to the truthfulness of the reviews published by their users on the site that according to the AGCM cannot be guaranteed. This case might trigger considerable risks also for other social media and fashion blogs.

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10

Dec 2014

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Social media prize promotions, now easier in Italy?

Prize promotions might have an easier life in Italy due to clarifications just issued by the Ministry that however do not sort all the issues especially for international and social media promotions.

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Oct 2014

Internet liability

Video embedding is not a copyright breach

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) drafted a new page of copyright-related Internet liability rules holding that the embedding of a video from a videosharing platform on the different site without the consent from the right holder is not a copyright breach.

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28

Oct 2014

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Internet liability on Fan pages: who can be blamed?

Internet liability principles are increasingly tested with the growth of social media. And we receive a large number of requests of advice from clients running a fan page, a group or a list on social networks dedicated to either their company trademark/brand or to one of their major products in relation to the liability for the contents published on such fan pages.

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08

Oct 2014

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Internet liability rules are different for Yahoo! search

Yahoo! does not have to remove the links to the copyright protected videos belonging to RTI available through the results of its video search engine since the Court of Milan held that in the provision of such service it is a caching provider rather than an active hosting provider as previously held with reference to Yahoo! Video.

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11

Sep 2014

Internet liability

Right to be forgotten: Top 5 takeaways from Google’s Rome event!

Right to be forgotten related issues have become a very popular after the decision of the European Court of Justice against Google on the matter. And interesting topics arose from the public meeting held yesterday in Rome by Google's Advisory Council with some local experts to discuss how the ruling on the right to be forgotten should be adopted.

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28

Jul 2014

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No Internet liability for Wikipedia re its users’ defamatory contents

Internet liability rules applicable to Wikipedia are different from the ones with which YouTube has to comply according to the Court of Rome as Wikipedia has now been declared not liable to for the defamatory contents published by its users.

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18

Jul 2014

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Internet liability rules change after YouTube case?

The Internet liability regime for hosting providers have been subject of different interpretations by courts in Italy and a new interesting position came up with the decision of the Court of Turin (Italy) involving YouTube and Google which overturned its initial decision of a few months ago introducing new principles of Internet liability for online operators.

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04

Jun 2014

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Web tax (or Google tax) – no thanks, maybe…

There is no need of a web tax dedicated to digital companies according the report from the Expert Group on Taxation of the Digital Economy established by the European Commission, but the current general rules should be applied also to digital companies. However, recent court decisions and delegation laws leave some risks open in relation to the Internet liability regime of web companies for tax purposes.

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28

May 2014

Internet liability

Brazil World Cup Guidelines – watch your advertisements!

World cup guidelines on the usage of its trademarks in connection with the upcoming Brazil Football World Cup have been issued by FIFA. These created some concerns on advertisers about to launch their marketing campaigns associated to the event. Indeed they might have planned to display world cup trademarks, images of football players and maybe had also considered to perform ambush marketing campaigns also relevant under a gaming law perspective.

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