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The Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italian Data Protection Authority, “Garante”), through Resolution no. 29 of 27 January 2016, has stated that hen bloggers report news and comments in their blog, in absence of the data subjects’ consent, they do not commit any unlawful act as long as they respect the rights, fundamental freedoms and dignity of the person on which they write. In this resolution the Garante declared groundless the complaint of a well-known public figure who had asked a blogger to remove an article reporting certain information concerning her personal life...

In its decision filed on 27 April 2016, the Court of First Instance of Rome (Tribunale di Roma) states that even a non-detailed cease-and-desist letter (i.e., a letter without any indication of the URLs), subject to specific conditions, may be deemed sufficient to oblige the relevant hosting provider to remove the infringing content. RTI S.p.A. (“RTI”), a company which belongs to the Mediaset group, owner of the exploitation rights of several TV shows, requested to TMFT Enterprises LLC - Break Media (“Break Media”) which operates a well-known video-sharing platform, the removal of RTI’s content...

On 25 February 2016, by Resolution no. 582/15/CONS, the Italian Communications Authority - (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni - AGCOM) published the results of the inquiry relating to audiovisual production sector. The inquiry started on 13 January 2015 (Resolution no. 20/15/CONS) in order to carry out a review of the audiovisual production sector, as well as to make an in-depth analysis on the production process of audiovisual works and on the mechanisms of market functioning. The inquiry ended on 16 October 2015. The AGCOM report, running to more than 170 pages, provides a comprehensive...

By means of Resolution no. 366/10/CONS, the Italian Communications Authority (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni - AGCOM) approved, in 2010, the first logical channel numbering plan for digital terrestrial television in Italy. This plan was voided by the Consiglio di Stato (the Italian High Administrative Court) by judgment no. 4660 of 2012. Following this judgment, by means of Resolution no. 442/12/CONS, AGCOM launched a public consultation and appointed a specialised company to conduct a survey on viewers/users’ preferences in order to adopt a new LCN plan. The plan was approved in...

On 1 December 2015, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority - AGCOM) by means of Resolution no. 658/15/CONS approved the evaluation of the economic size for 2014 of the Integrated System of Communications (SIC), i.e. the economic sector consisting of daily and periodic press, annual and electronic publishing (also through the Internet), audiovisual media services and radio services, cinema, external advertising, initiatives of communications of products and services, and sponsoring. Based on this evaluation, for the year 2014 the overall value of the SIC...