The Swedish streaming music giant must contend with a lawsuit from the American company Wixen Music Publishing which is suing it for copyright infringement, specifically alleging Spotify is using thousands of its songs...
The world in 2018 according to NOMISMA experts
More than a half century ago, Bob Dylan’s “A hard rain’s a-gonna fall” reflected a dark and turbulent world facing a potential nuclear attack, the rising threat of environmental pollution, a rapid shifting of the...
EU: negotiations opened on the e-Privacy Regulation
The European Parliament has endorsed the opening of negotiations between the Parliament itself and the Council concerning the procedure for adopting the proposal for the Regulation on Privacy and Electronic...
The proposal for an EU regulation on the free flow of non-personal data: obstacles and lines of action.
The following is an analysis of a proposal for a regulation “for a framework on the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union”. The objective of the regulation is the liberalisation of data flows. It is worth...
China-EU School of Law (CESL) Academic Conference: “Data Protection in Times of Big Data”, Beijing
More than 20 speakers will discuss cybersecurity at the 2017 China-EU School of Law Conference “Personal Data Protection in Times of Big Data” which will be held in Beijing on the 3rd of November 2017. Gao Hongbing...
Employee privacy, how the “Data Protection Impact Assessment” works
Here is the article by Giusella Finocchiaro and Laura Greco, published in Agenda Digitale on 1st September 2017. Much has already been said on the new data protection requirements introduced by Regulation (EU) 2016/679...
Italian DPA: the time elapsed since the facts is not the only criterion that counts in an evaluation of the right to be forgotten
Time is not the only element which needs taking into consideration when examining cases concerning the right to be forgotten, since in addition to which, the public role of the parties involved and the current relevance...
QN: “The web is not the Wild West” – comment by Giusella Finocchiaro
On July 18th, Quotidiano Nazionale, the Italian daily newspaper that groups together three other dailies, Il Resto del Carlino, Il Giorno and La Nazione, published an analysis by Professor Giusella Finocchiaro of the...
UN Commission on International Trade Law adopts the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (the “MLETR”) on 13 July at its fiftieth session in Vienna. The MLETR...
UNCITRAL: Model Law adopted on Electronic Transferable Records
At its fiftieth session the UNCITRAL Commission adopted the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records. This is the result of work done by Working Group IV on Electronic Commerce. The Model Law represents a...
UNCITRAL Commission: final steps before the adoption of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records
The 50th annual session of the UNCITRAL Commission will be held in Vienna from the 3rd to the 21th July 2017. During the session the Commission will consider the deliberations and decisions of its Working Group IV on...
European General Data Protection Regulation – Consent, Data Breach and Profiling: results from the last Fablab of the Article 29 Working Party
The Article 29 Working Party of the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) has published a report on the public consultations held inside the Working Group in particular regarding critical aspects of the Privacy...
