Online sports live streaming does not fall under the scope of broadcasting rights, but such rights can be extended. Copyright should not be affected in any case and it is subject to even more stringent obligations in Italy.
Google link tax might be reproduced in Italy after the negative experience that led to the shutting down of Google News in Spain as a consequence of the approval of a similar law.
Yahoo! is a passive hosting provider obliged to remove copyright infringing material only following a detailed notice from the rights' holder and without any filtering obligation in relation to future potentially infringing videos.
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.ย
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