Today in London, at the International lntellectual Property Enforcement Summit, prof. Angelo Cardani, the Chairman of Italian Regulator AGCOM, reported the preliminary results of the Copyright Enforcement Regulation which recently (March 28, […]
Digit@lians.eu is born!
Today in Brussels we launched Digit@lians.eu, a community of Italian (and Italian-speaking) professionals engaged in the digital sector. Guest speakers were prof. Antonio Nicita, commissioner at AGCOM, and dott. Cristiano Radaelli, […]
Search engines, right to be forgotten and data protection: regulating Google?
A new decision of the Court of justice of the European Union (case C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos) raises very interesting points with regard […]
Why international roaming is so hard to die
As we well know and frequently heard since last year (at least since September 2013, when Commissioner Kroes launched the Connected Continent proposal), international roaming tariffs within the EU should soon disappear. […]
Piracy and private copy levy: the European Court of Justice makes an important ruling
According to the European Court of Justice, the amount of the levy payable for making private copies of a protected work may not take unlawful reproductions into account. This principle has been […]
Search neutrality: the new frontiers of the #netneutrality debate
I just gave an interview to Euractiv in the matter of search neutrality, here my answers: Net neutrality is a key topic in the EU debate and will likely remain so with […]
The annulment of the data retention directive and the messy consequences on national legislations
(see the national developments here) Today the European Court of Justice has declared invalid the European data retention directive (Directive 2006/24/EC), i.e. the entire set of rules obliging in Europe ISPs and […]
The confused meaning of “Open Internet” in the European net neutrality debate: my 5 cents
Today (2 April) or tomorrow (3 April) the European Parliament will take an important decision in the matter of Net Neutrality in the EU. While voting in the frame of the well-known […]
Web-blocking and copyright protection: the European court sets the limits
Court of Justice of the European Union has finally determined the limits under which national courts can require ISPs (Internet access providers) to block access to websites in order to prevent or […]
Lights and darkness of the (EP) net neutrality reform
Today the ITRE committee of the European Parliament approved a draft reform of Net Neutrality supported by Pilar del Castillo, a Spanish rapporteur (EPP) who is in charge of the Connected Continent […]
