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The envisaged purchase of a controlling stake of Telecom Italia by Chinese investors (Hutchison) is shaking the debate about the future of the Italian telecommunications market, and also raising questions about consequent implications: will Telefonica stay or leave? Should Telecom Italia’s fixed network be separated? And so on. However, a preliminary analysis should be dedicated […]
April 12, 2013
A kind of accident for the liberalization of the collecting society sector, occurred today in Luxembourg at the European courts, will not however stop the process. The General Court of the European Union has partially annulled a very important decision of the European Commission concerning anticompetitive coordination in the field of copyright management. The decision […]
March 15, 2013
The European Council, which met in Brussels in March 14-15, finally acknowledged, upon request of the European Commission, the question about need for more integration for the telecom single market: “Digital Agenda and other services (October 2013): the European Council notes the Commission’s intention to report well before October on the state of play and the remaining […]
March 11, 2013
Berec, the European agency of communications regulators, today announced its intention to delay the adoption of an opinion on the proposal of Commissioner Kroes to strongly reform European network access regulation (via a well-known proposal of recommmendation). After 2 days of Conclave in Slovenia, the national regulators only found an agreement about an executory summary […]
February 15, 2013
A case of web-blocking occurred in Italy is re-opening the discussion about what should be done in order to fight efficiently and definively child-pornography in the Internet. Yesterday 14 February 2013 the Italian police imposed the block of the domain name 25.media.tumblr.com, an archive used for images uploaded on a blogging platform. The decision was […]
February 11, 2013
The European Union seems to produce plenty of initiatives and ideas in the area of copyright in the digital world. Recently, an unusual team consisting of 3 European commissioners (Barnier, Kroes and Vassiliou) set out the actions to ensure that copyright framework stays fit for purpose in the digital environment. A communication adopted in late […]
April 15, 2013
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