Italy

[IT] New Provisions on Copyright

IRIS 2000-9:1/34

Maja Cappello

Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (AGCOM)

On 18 August 2000 the Italian Parliament approved law no. 248 on Copyright (Nuove norme di tutela del diritto d'autore, Legge of 18 August 2000, no. 248, in Gazzetta Ufficiale of 4 September 2000, no. 206). After long discussions on the Government Draft (see IRIS 2000-7: 13), which has not been amended since the final approval by the Camera dei Deputati (Chamber of Deputies), the law eventually updates the almost sixty years old Copyright Act of 1941 (Protezione del diritto d'autore e di altri diritti concessi al suo esercizio, Legge 22 April 1941, no. 633, in Gazzetta Ufficiale of 16 July 1941, no. 166).


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This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory.