- June 2023
- AI Act enters the final phase of adoption process as EU Parliament agrees on its negotiating position
- Three-dimensional trademarks: Italian Court of Cassation confirms that distinctive food packaging is eligible for trademark registration
- Draft proposal for a regulation on standard essential patents by the European Commission (with much more to come)
- May 2023
- Pseudonymization and anonymization of data: Recent developments from European case-law
- AGCOM publishes final version of guidelines for complaint and redress mechanism and regulation for dispute settlement between users and online content sharing service providers
- Scraping to train Artificial Intelligence is raising issues
- Italian Competition Authority launches abuse of dominance investigation into the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) for hindering third-parties’ amateur competitions
- April 2023
- ChatGPT case: How the Italian Data Protection Authority is trying to address AI risks
- Ediscom case: The Garante sanctioned the use of dark patterns for the first time
- The Italian Competition Authority market-tests commitments proposed by Google to close an antitrust investigation for obstructing interoperability of users’ personal data
- Italy transposed the European Directive on whistleblowing: Overview of main requirements and developments
- March 2023
- Green claims: A new EU proposal for a directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims
- Italy implements EU Omnibus Directive on consumer protection: Legislative Decree No. 26/2023 published in the Official Gazette
- European Data Protection Board opinion on the draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework
- Generative AI and copyright registration: Legal boundaries and recent guidance from the U.S. Copyright Office
- Transparent and predictable working conditions: Guidelines from the Data Protection Authority on Legislative Decree no. 104/2022
- February 2023
- The European Commission publishes final study report on compulsory licensing
- Generative Artificial Intelligence models: Not necessarily a matter of copyright
- The Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy has published the updated version of the FAQs on prize promotions that establish a stance on NFT and cryptocurrency prizes
- The Italian Data Protection Authority blocks AI chatbot Replika due to endangerment of minors and vulnerable people