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  • Italy’s new Digital Services Tax is now in force

    With the 2020 Budget Law, the Italian government has reshaped Italy’s digital services tax (DST), mirroring the EU Commission proposal of March 2018. The revised version of the Italian DST is now in force effective January 1, 2020. The new Italian DST regime is an income tax regime.  The new tax on the turnover from qualified “digital services” that indicate a high degree of users’ involvement in

  • The Italian residential lease market: A potential gold mine?

    Italy is currently experiencing an economic recovery, in the real estate residential market as elsewhere. This is due to a turnaround in consumer spending after the massive crisis of 2008 as well as an influx of foreign purchasers – particularly from Australia and New Zealand, wishing to buy homes in Florence and Rome especially –...

  • Italian Privacy Code repealed, what to expect with the GDPR?

    Italian companies can now rely on guidelines on how to comply with the European General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). These guidelines unveil some interesting positions. In recent weeks, the French and Dutch data protection authorities have announced their own approaches to the GDPR. Now, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Italy’s DP authority, has issued its six-step methodology...

  • Italian privacy legitimate interest gets complicated

    Our colleague Giulio Coraggio explains how privacy legitimate interest might become difficult to manage in Italy following provisions introduced by means of the Budget Law: The Italian legislator seems not to like legitimate interest as legal basis of data processing. Indeed, under the current Italian Privacy Code, it required a previous approval from the Italian Data Protection...

  • The IoT will have a European plan

    Reposted from Media, Sport and Entertainment Online Blog By Giulio Coraggio An Internet of Things plan will be issued by the European Commission by mid-2016, but also single countries like Italy are bringing forward IoT initiatives. The European Commission IoT plan Thibaut Kleiner, the head of unit for network technologies at European Commission Directorate General...

  • NEW RULES ON LEASE AGREEMENTS IN THE RETAIL SECTOR IN ITALY

    By Maurizio Redondi A new law in Italy allows the parties to a lease agreement to avoid the onerous statutory provisions law no. 392/78 (the “Tenancy Law”). Effective from 12 November 2014, the parties to a non-residential property lease agreement in Italy are allowed to contract out of the obligations of the Tenancy Law if...

  • Implementing Directive 2011/83/ EU Into Italian Law

    Reposted from Law A La Mode  By: Sara Balice  Italy implemented the Consumer Rights Directive by adopting the Legislative Decree no. 21 of February 21, 2014 effective from June 13, 2014 which amended the Italian Consumer Code. The new rules apply to any contract concluded between a trader and a consumer, with the exceptions indicated in the Consumer Rights...

  • Right Time for Internet of Things Regulations?

    Reposted from IPT Italy Blog  By Giulio Coraggio Internet of Things technologies are already all around us and with a market that is expected to reach a value of more than $ 14.4 trillion over the next decade with 50 billion connected devices by 2020, the question is whether ad hoc regulations are necessary to...

  • Gucci / Guess – The Italian Appeal: Gucci’s half victory against Guess on the ground of unfair competition

    By: Elena Varese *This post originally appeared in IPT Italy Blog The Milan Court of Appeal has overturned the first instance decision and partially upheld Gucci’s claims, stating that Guess has committed an act of unfair competition, by parasitically copying a number of products of the well-known fashion house of Florence. A comparison between two products of Gucci...

  • #FASHIONLINE @ BORSA ITALIANA

    Repost from LAW À LA MODE, Issue 13 – April 2014 By Giangiacomo Olivi and Stefania Baldazzi (Milan) DLA Piper’s Fashion, Retail and Design group held another successful event in Milan’s famous Borsa Italiana, discussing legal issues and new trends regarding fashion blogging, e-commerce and wearable technologies. The event was opened by the University of...

  • Top fashion legal topics – #5 Fashion and online retail

    Reposted from DLA Piper’s IPT Italy Blog.  By Gianluigi Marino We dedicated this week to fashion and IPT (intellectual property and technology) issues. After wearable technologies, special rules for foreign franchisors in Italy, 3D Printers à la mode, social media and fashion this IPT catwalk goes on with some lines regarding fashion and e-commerce. The...

  • Top fashion legal topics – #4 Be fashion, be social!

    Reposted from DLA Piper’s IPT Italy Blog.  By Sara Balice After having debated about wearable technologies, special rules for foreign franchisors in Italy and 3D Printers à la mode, in this fourth post of the fashion-dedicated series, celebrating the Milan fashion week, we will discuss about the new frontier of the fashion industry marketing communication:...

  • Top fashion legal topics – #3 3D Printers à la mode

    Reposted from DLA Piper’s IPT Italy Blog.  By Gualtiero Dragotti As part of the series of posts on fashion related topics, we previously discussed about wearable technologies and franchising agreements while in this post we would better focus on an issue already touched in this previous post i.e. the issues originated by the friction between...

  • Top fashion legal topics – #2 special rules for foreign franchisors in Ital

    Reposted from DLA Piper’s IPT Italy Blog.  By Stefania Baldazzi As part of the series of posts on the most relevant legal matters affecting the fashion industry, we discussed about wearable technologies and privacy while in this post we want to cover the issue of franchising agreements that are one the most common contractual arrangements...

  • Top fashion legal topics – #1 wearable technologies and privacy

    Reposted from DLA Piper’s IPT Italy Blog.  By Giulio Coraggio Living in one of the world fashion capitals and with the upcoming Milan fashion week, we thought it might be of interest covering some of the top current legal issues impacting the fashion sector. This is the first post of a series of posts of...

  • Google shall NOT monitor Adwords keywords

    Reposted from July 2013 issue of DLA Piper’s Sports, Media and Entertainment Intelligence By Giulio Coraggio The Court of Palermo (Italy) held that Google as an hosting provider is not obliged to monitor the AdWords keywords selected by its users. The court did find liability for a local rental company, Sicily by Car, for the...

  • Lawyer’s Monday: IP Litigation Strategies in Italy

    This video was originally posted by the DLA Piper Italian Intellectual Property and Technology team at http://blog.dlapiper.com/iptitaly/.  

  • Lawyers Monday – Italian IP pills: the search and description order

    Reposted from IPT Italy Blog 

  • Ciao!

    Ciao to Chiara Garofoli, our DLA Piper colleague from Milan, Italy who is going off to work for Google, Milan.  Chiara was a founding and active editorial member of our fashion law publication, Law a la Mode, and an editorial member of this Blog.  Best of luck at Google, Chiara!

  • Trademarks Opposition to be finally available in July

    Reposted from DLA Piper’s IPT ITALY BLOG According to rumors coming from the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM) it is only a matter of weeks before the much awaited activation of a trademark opposition procedure in Italy. An administrative procedure to oppose to applications for identical or similar trademarks was actually introduced in the Italian...

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