Among the measures to fight the economic crisis announced by the Italian Government, sect. 15 para 1 lett. c) of the Anti-Crisis decree deserves a special mention: to put it short, the provision asserts corporate liability (under legislative decree 231/01) for copyright infringement committed by top management.
The Bergamo Criminal Court overrules the seizure, but establishes a case law that is a violation of civil rights
ALCEI organises Italian Biotech Law Conference’s fourth edition. 2008 conference topic is the (near) future building of a National DNA Database for criminal investigations.
Should music, video or software copying be treated as terrorism?
Another Italian law against the internet adds more problems for communication freedom and human rights. The decree-law issued by the Italian government on March 12, 2004 [1] adds to an already long list of laws and rules that, with a variety of pretexts, interfere with freedom and personal rights.
Hacking a Playstation Sony by adding a “modchip” is not an intellectual proprierty infringment. The customer who paid for the purchase, has all and any right to “handle” his private proprierty
Condemned for possession of Word
In occasion of 2nd PEACELINK”™s National Convention – Statte (TA),held on 26-27 October 1996 we said, in our intervention (italian only), that:
