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On 22 July 2009, the European Commission approved under State aid rules a EUR 82 million Italian tax incentive scheme for film investment and distribution. In the same decision, the Commission also decided to open a formal investigation into a proposal for tax incentives for digital projection in Italian cinemas. The tax incentives aim to support and promote the production and distribution of Italian cultural films. The approved tax incentives complement the Italian film production tax incentives already approved by the Commission in December 2008 (see IRIS 2008-9: 15, IRIS 2009-3: 14 and IRIS...

On 22 July 2009 the European Commission approved under state aid rules most aspects of a EUR 82 million Italian tax incentive scheme for film investment and distribution (see IRIS 2009-9: 6/5). The approved tax incentives complement the Italian film production tax already approved by the Commission in December 2008 (see IRIS 2008-9: 15/24; IRIS 2009-3: 14/23; and IRIS 2009-6: 14/23). The Italian notification had included a number of fiscal measures for various activities related to the film sector. a) a tax credit for businesses outside the film sector investing in the production of Italian cultural...

The Italian Copyright Statute Law No 633 of 22 April 1941 (Article 181bis) lays down the mandatory requirement of affixing a distinctive sign bearing the initials of the Italian collecting society Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (Society of Authors and Publishers - SIAE) to any medium containing protected works. This operates as an authentication tool and a safeguard enabling legitimate products to be distinguished from pirated goods. In most relevant Italian court rulings (delivered prior to the Schwibbert ruling, see IRIS 2009-1: 15), the absence of the SIAE sign on a given medium has...

The new Italian tax credit and tax shelter (See IRIS 2008-9: 15 and IRIS 2009-3: 14) have now become available, after clearing the final government hurdle. On 11 May 2009 the signing of the decrees implementing the financial measures was announced, in accordance with Italian Law no. 133 of 6 August 2008. With these measures the two cinema tax incentives have now become operational. The incentives are expected to pump as much as USD 350 million into the local industry annually and lure foreign productions back to Rome's Cinecitta Studios, where business has been dwindling. The incentives for foreign...

The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible the application in a case concerning the sealing by the authorities of a television set because a person had not paid his licence fee. In 1999, the applicant, Mr. Faccio, filed a request with the Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) subscriptions bureau to terminate his subscription to the public television service. On 29 August 2003, the tax police sealed his television set in a nylon bag so that it could no longer be used. Relying on Article 10 (freedom of expression) and Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the...