Monthly News
Cultural start-up
- Monday 23 October 2017
- Novità legislative, Start up
- Italia, Startup
The issue of protecting and enhancing the artistic and cultural heritage has always been subject of lively debate in Italy. In recent years, even with the economic crisis, public funding for conservation, management and enhancement of artistic and cultural heritage has drastically declined. Thus...
The right to be forgotten and its balancing with the right to information.
- Wednesday 30 August 2017
- Diritto Penale, Information Tecnnology, Novità legislative, Privacy
- Europa, Italia
While waiting for the effective entry into force of the new European Personal Data Protection Regulation, which for the first time encodes the right to be forgotten in accordance with the principles of the case-law and the elaborated guidelines of WP Art. 29, is interesting to observe how such a ...
Cassazione Civile, judgement n.16601: on punitive damages in Italy
- Monday 31 July 2017
- Contenzioso arbitrale e giudiziario, Diritto Civile, Risarcimento del danno
- Italia, USA
With the judgment of July 5th 2017, no. 16601, the Italian Supreme Court in plenary session (Sezioni Unite), declared enforceable, in the Italian legal order, three judgements pronounced in the United States of America that recognized the punitive damages to a motorcyclist who had suffered ...
China joins Italy in the discussion about food safety
- Wednesday 28 June 2017
- Diritto Alimentare, Internazionalizzazione, Relazioni internazionali, Tutela del consumatore
- Asia, Italia
Last June 13th, at the University Luiss Guido Carli, an important international conference on Food law was held, involving illustrious representatives of the Italian and Chinese political class. In greater detail, Maurizio Martina (Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry policies), ...
Product placement on social networks: current discipline and future challenges
- Friday 26 May 2017
- Antitrust, Comunicazioni ed editoria, Pubblicità, Tutela del consumatore
- Italia, UK, USA
Over the last years, many famous people have been publishing photos and videos through social media giving visibility to branded products in change of compensation by companies, without adequately informing the public about their promotional aim. Is this to be considered as product placement, ...