Facebook has been convicted of copyright infringement on the database represented by the “Faround” application, as well as of committing acts of unfair competition to the detriment of Business Competence, a software house based in Milan which developed the app. This is what was established by the Court of Appeal of Milan in judgment no. […]
With the recent order of October 19th 2020, the Milan Business Court recognized Amazon as an active hosting provider, condemning the platform manager as a precautionary measure to immediately cease the promotion and sale of some luxury products. The case concerned the presence on the well-known marketplace of some cosmetic and perfumery products bearing several […]
With a recent judgment of September 21st 2020, the Court of Rome explained the boundary between legitimate criticism and defamation in case of unflattering reviews published online by users. The case concerned the publication of many negative reviews published by patients of a health facility on the platform Google My Business. The facility had requested […]
The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Maciej Szpunar, was called to establish if it is lawful to integrate in a webpage, through a link, a copyright protected work that, with the rights’ holder authorization, was already available to the public in another website. In the conclusions of last […]
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, promoted by WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme...
