A zealous government board in Italy has granted itself the power of judge, jury, and executioner of any site it deems a copyright violator.

That is, unless one intellectual property lawyer can convince a court to stop it, but the clock is ticking.

Fulvio Sarzana of Rome's Sarzana & Partners Law Firm is the author of a book on Internet commerce, and he's representing a host of activist groups and consumer associations against AGCOM, an Italian acronym for an independent government body called the Communication Authority. In late 2013, AGCOM proposed, then granted to itself, a controversial means of enforcing copyright.

"We are very concerned because this legislation has not been adopted by the Italian parliament, but by an administrative body," Sarzana told the Daily Dot.

The gist of AGCOM's proposed program, according to papers by Giancarlo Frosio, a fellow at Stanford Law's Center for Internet and Society, is that enforcing online copyright would become an administrative issue, rather than a civil or criminal one.

 

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/italy-sopa-eu-agcom/

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