Elisabetta Mina An interim injunction which orders ISPs to block access to content whose unauthorized communication to the public has already been deemed unlawfuldoes not solely concern the domain names indicated in the ruling, but also future violations committed by means of different domain names (“aliases”). The Milan Court of First…

Marina Lanfranconi The Court of Milan has recently ruled in a case concerning breach by a franchisor of a commercial franchise agreement relating to the distribution of bonbons and the packaging thereof bearing the trademark “CC”.  The franchisee sued the franchisor for breach of the agreement on the grounds of…

Giacomo Lusardi The GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) has been much discussed in these last few months, so much so that we are all aware, like it or not, that the Regulation applies “to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than…

Elisabetta Mina Following adoption by the JURI Committee (Legal Affairs) of the European Parliament of the text of the Report on the proposed Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) as drafted by its Rapporteur, Axel Voss, the European Parliament…