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Possession of illicitly duplicated software: admitted seizure for probative purposes
- 04/09/2018
Detention and use of software in the commercial or industrial field, constitute a crime pursuant to art. 171-bis, paragraph 1 of Law n. 633/1941 (Copyright Law), with the possibility of seizure for probative purposes. On this point, the Court of Cassation, with sentence n. 30047/2018, filed on 4th July 2018, has stated that computer hard drives can be confiscated towards commercial companies, in the case of possible violations of software copyright.
The crime has been excluded only for professional firms, whose activity is not strictly "commercial", as required by the law.
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The Contracting Authority enjoys wide discretion in the evaluation of technical offers
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- 15/04/2024
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