The European Court of Justice has issued an  interesting decision in the case between Handelsgesellschaft Heinrich Heine GmbH v Verbraucherzentrale. Heinrich Heine, a mail-order company, provides in its general conditions of…

The Italian Criminal Court of Cassation issued a very interesting decision on defamatory comments published in an online forum.  To give you a bit of background information, Italian…

The Italian Data Protection Authority has ordered to 3 telecom providers to delete telecom and Internet traffic data that they were storing for a period longer than that prescribed by…

OUT-LAW.COM reports that the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding is planning to introduce a European Contract Law to govern cross-border distance…

The decree setting out the technical and functional requirements of the videolottery machines has been finally published on the Official Gazette. As anticipated in the previous posts , videolotteries…

The European Commission has  adopted a new set of standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal data from data controllers in the European Union to data processors located outside the…

The introduction of a private copying levy scheme has been subject of relevant discussions during the last years between right holders and device manufacturers. Indeed, as far as Italy is concerned,…

The Italian Government is in the process of implementing the so called Audiovisual Media Services EU Directive (“AVMSD”) which was merely meant to amend the Television Without…

As already discussed in a previous post , any company advertising its products/services, having a website or performing any marketing activity should carefully review its compliance with the regulations…