Marina Lanfranconi On August 8, 2016, the Gazzetta Ufficiale published provisional decree n. 208 (Stability Law 2016) entitled “Identification of specialized media aimed at advertising games with cash prizes” from December 28, 2015. This decree clarifies the scope of the ban regarding this type of advertising “in both radio broadcasting…

Gilberto Cavagna The Supreme Court of Cassation has put an end to the lawsuit filed by the author of the slogan “You are, we car”, used by FIAT Group Automobiles S.p.A. in their advertising campaign for the launch of the new Fiat 500. The author had claimed that there was…

Gilberto Cavagna With the sentence n. 7641/2016 published June 17th, the Court of Companies, which is part of the Court of Milan, ruled over a case regarding protection by law for format copyright. In other words, format refers to the diagram that identifies the main features of a program or…

Gilberto Cavagna The Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) transmitted on its own website a summary chart, updated the 20th of May, 2016, containing data relative to the applications/requests attained and measures adopted according to the “Regulation regarding copyright protection in electronic communication networks.” This regulation, which entered into force on…