Elisabetta Mina Following a public consultation held in 2017, the UK’s self-regulatory advertising authority (the Advertising Standards Authority – ASA), has amended the two codes which regulate respectively non-television and television advertising (the CAP Code and the BCAP Code respectively), both administrated by the Authority, thereby introducing stricter rules prohibiting…

Elisabetta Mina With the decision passed on April 26, 2017, the Court of Justice ruled over the case of Stichting Brein (C-527/15), following after the previous case from December 8, 2016 in which Attorney General Campos Sanchez Bordona had revealed his conclusions (as discussed in the previous article). The Attorney…

Gilberto Cavagna and Marina Lanfranconi In recent years, there has been an increasing use in commerce regarding hashtags, which contain proprietary or third party trademarks. The hashtag, as it is known, is an instrument used primarily to group together and promote content on the Internet. However, when analyzing the hashtag symbol individually,…

Marina Lanfranconi Mass production of industrial design works does not exclude the artistic value, a requirement that Italian legislator has considered to add to the protection of design works under copyright law, as a means to raise the protection threshold just for works of industrial design. Artistic value is defined…