Reed Smith LLP (LexBlog Italy)

Evidenced by its $1.29 trillion market cap, (CoinMarketCap, May 17, 2022) interest in cryptocurrency has skyrocketed in recent years (Haar, 2022). Indeed, as of April 2, 2022, the cryptocurrency market was larger than Italy’s GDP, the eighth largest in the world (Adams and Walker, 2022). Of course, with more interest and value comes more risk,...

This post was also written by Matthew N. Peters. In early May the Italian data protection authority (“Garante”) issued “Simplified Arrangements to Provide Information and Obtain Consent Regarding Cookies” (“Guidelines”).  These are intended to provide clarity on the application of Legislative Decree No. 69/2012 (the “2012 Act”), which implemented the EU Cookie Directive in Italy. The...

This post was written by Cynthia O’Donoghue. Three senior Google executives, given six month suspended jail sentences in Italy in 2010 for data protection breaches relating to the content of a video post by a user in 2006, have been acquitted by an appellate court in Milan. The Google executives, including Google’s chief privacy officer,...

American International Group Europe S.A. (Italy) (AIGE) v. Franco Vago International, Inc., 09 Civ. 6525 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 2010),  succinctly addresses several issues of international litigation practice, specifically the enforceability of jurisdictional provisions in bills of lading and waiver.  AIGE is the subrogee of Sixty USA, Inc. The case is a maritime case (138 cartons of...

This post was written by Avv. Felix Hofer. 1. The general principle is that the use of a person’s image without his/her consent is basically prohibited (this even more if such use is performed for marketing or – in general – commercial purposes). In Italy the right on a person’s image is governed both by...