While in Europe the approval process of the AI ACT has almost come to an end, in Italy the attention toward the potentials of Artificial Intelligence continues to grow. At national level, on the one hand the Italian legislator has begun to worry about the risks connected to the use of AI systems in the […]
Cookie Pledge: a new cookie consent management
On December 13, 2023, the EDPB – European Data Protection Board – published a letter of response to a voluntary initiative – cookie pledge – of the European Commission, through which it was proposed a system allowing enterprises to intervene and manage cookie directly, as to lighten the mechanism to ask for users consent for […]
Trademark filed in bad faith: EUIPO’s recent decision
The Cancellation Division of EUIPO has recently decided on the invalidity of the European figurative trademark no. 18118853 having as object the famous Banksy work called “The Flower Thrower”. Banksy’s “Flower Thrower” Trademark The application for invalidity, based on the applicant’s bad faith as well as on the descriptiveness and/or non-distinctiveness of the sign at […]
The protection of a commissioned rendering: the decision of the court of Florence
The Court of Florence with ruling no. 935 of March 27th 2023, gave and important decision on copyright infringement and protection of a rendering. A rendering is the process of generating an image or animation on the basis of a starting model, through the use of a specialized software. According to the constant case law, […]