- December 2020
- European Commission reckons with trends and developments in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges to the Intellectual Property Rights Framework
- German Bundestag approves legislation to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement
- The Italian Competition Authority again addresses hidden online advertising
- EDPB recommendations for the transfer of personal data in light of the CJEU Schrems II decision
- November 2020
- Italian Competition Authority launches investigation into a cooperative joint venture between copyright collecting societies
- European Commission publishes list of issues to consider in the review of competition rules that apply to distribution agreements
- Failure to transpose the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive leads the European Commission to open infringement proceedings against 23 Member States, including Italy
- Italian Communication Authority opens a public consultation on the proposed amendments to the regulation on copyright enforcement in electronic communications networks
- The Italian Communications Authority issues Google Ireland the first administrative pecuniary sanction for breach of the general ban on gambling advertising
- GDPR sanction in Italy takes into account the involvement of the DPO
- Dynamic injunctions: A useful judicial tool against online infringement of IP rights and acts of unfair competition
- Giveaways and Italian prize contest regulation: An open issue
- Parliament considers establishing an ad-hoc parliamentary committee of inquiry on the massive dissemination of fake news
- October 2020
- Zero-tariff packages are incompatible with the EU rules on net neutrality, CJEU rules
- According to the CJEU, Member States cannot require electronic communications service providers to transmit to authorities or retain traffic data and location data on a general and indiscriminate basis
- Advertising condoms: No need to request prior authorization from the Ministry of Health
- The Stevenage Challenge: Digital customer engagement and brand promotion
- Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar on the Star Taxi App case: An electronic application that puts taxi passengers directly in touch with taxi drivers constitutes an Information Society Service
- Image rights and their clash with copyright law: New challenges and new horizons
- Which legal protection for street art?