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Yahoo! Italia liable for film copyright infringement

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • Italy
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  • April 7 2011

The debate about copyright protection on the Internet has taken a new turn

'Not for sale': US and EU approaches to trademark and copyright.

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
  • -
  • Italy, USA
  • -
  • January 27 2011

On January 4 2010 the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit established that the distribution, by the copyright owner, of promotional CDs for marketing purposes involved a transfer of ownership of such CDs to the recipients, regardless of the fact that such copies were labelled 'promotional use only - not for sale', thus allowing third parties to sell on such copies without the copyright owner's consent

Protection of television programmes on video-sharing platforms

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • Italy
  • -
  • October 6 2011

The Court of Milan has published its grounds for an earlier decision in which Yahoo! Italia Srl was found liable for infringement of copyright held by Reti Televisive Italiane SpA in respect of television programmes uploaded and displayed on Yahoo! Italia's video-sharing platform

Search engines could be liable for links to pirated content

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Italy
  • -
  • June 6 2011

The Court of Rome has issued a preliminary injunction in a case brought by PFA Films S.r.l. (PFA), the exclusive distributor in Italy of the Iranian movie "About Elly". PFA sued Yahoo! Italia S.r.l

Italian telecoms and media regulator proposes to adminster notice-and-takedown procedures and update on Italian case law

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Italy
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  • November 28 2011

On 6 July 2011 the Italian Communication Regulatory Authority, AGCOM, approved a draft of a new regulation (Res. no. 39811, the "Regulation") regarding the protection of copyright within electronic networks

Liability of search engines for links to pirated content

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Italy
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  • October 12 2011

On 16 June 2011, the Court of Rome reviewed its decision of 20 March 2011 where it ordered Yahoo! to remove from its search engine links to websites hosting pirated versions of the Iranian movie "About Elly", which is exclusively distributed in Italy by PFA Films S.r.l (PFA

Court rules on television programmes on video-sharing platforms

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • Italy
  • -
  • July 28 2011

The Court of Milan has recently published the grounds for its decision against ItaliaOnline Srl (IOL) for infringement of copyright held by Reti Televisive Italiane SpA in respect of television programmes uploaded and displayed on IOL's audio and video-sharing platform

Active or passive? Court of Rome rules on role and liability of ISPs

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • Italy
  • -
  • December 15 2011

In dismissing a request by RTI, Italy's main private broadcaster, for precautionary measures against a hosting services provider, the Court of Rome has underlined the key principles on liability for internet service providers in Italian law

Use of movie trailers online

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Italy
  • -
  • January 3 2012

In the past few weeks the online press has reported that SIAE, the Italian collecting society, started sending requests to several website managers, requesting royalties for the use of the music in the trailers shown on their websites

Protection of TV programme formats

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Italy
  • -
  • February 9 2012

On 14 October 2011, the Court of Rome denied a request by Reti Televisive Italiane S.p.A. (RTI) to reconsider the Court's recent adverse decision on the protection of TV programme formats

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