Categoria: News

ITALIAN DPA FINES BENETTON FOR 240,000 EUROS.   With an injunction order, the Italian Data Protection Authority fined the Benetton company for breaching some principles of the GDPR regarding data retention, minimization, and technical and organizational security measures.   The Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante” or “DPA”) fined the Benetton company for certain violations regarding…

FIRST STEP TOWARD EU REGULATION ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVED THE AI ACT.   After an initial positive opinion from the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament on the AI Act, the favourable vote of the EU Parliament also came on June 14, 2023.   Negotiations…

AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) MAY LEAD TO HUMAN EXTINCTION: THE CREATORS THEMSELVES ARE SAYING SO!   “Mitigating the risk of Artificial Intelligence extinction should be a global priority along with other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war“.   This is the statement with which the letter published in the Center for AI Safety and…

SCOTUS BACK ON THE INTERPRETATION OF “FAIR USE” IN ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC. V. GOLDSMITH.   On May 18th, 2023, the US Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith case, ruling that the purpose and character of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s (“AWF”)…

VIOLATION OF THE SHAREHOLDERS’ AGREEMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE REMEDY.   The Court of Milan has ruled in favour of the possibility, for the parties, to obtain as a precautionary measure a ruling that prevents the shareholder from conduct in conflict with the negotiating structure contained in the shareholders’ agreement entered into with the other shareholders, thus…

“CAPITAL COMPETITIVENESS” BILL, A SUMMARY OF NEW MEASURES IDENTIFIED BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT.   On April 11, 2023, the Council of Ministers of the Italian government adopted the draft law aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the Italian capital market, which provides for (i): measures to simplify and rationalize the rules for companies to access…

CHATGPT: REFLECTIONS ON THE BLOCK IMPOSED ON ITALIAN USERS.   The precautionary measure adopted as a matter of urgency by the Italian Data Protection Authority has turned into a querelle between two factions: those who believe that this is intended to block innovation and technology and those who argue that the protection of people’s rights…

THE (UN)HAPPY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIAE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS: THE META CASE.   Meta and SIAE failed to reach an agreement to keep ensuring the free sharing of songs and copyrighted content managed by the Italian Body on social platforms owned by the Menlo Park giant, Instagram and Facebook. The after-effect is the blocking and muting…

NON-POSSESSORY SECURITY PLEDGE: THE RECENT PERSPECTIVES OF THE INNOVATIVE SECURITY INSTRUMENT.   The full operation of the non-possessory security pledge is now close. On January 12, 2023, the revenue agency (“Agenzia delle Entrate”) approved the technical specifications relating to the drafting of applications and titles constituting the possessory security pledge in the new computerised register,…