Deeplinking, Framing And Metatags: The Italian Legal Framework

The development of the Internet in Italy begun only in the late 1990s and Internet use has only recently become widespread. As a result Italian law does not specifically regulate linking of websites and there have been few court decisions in this area of law; the relevant legal literature mainly analyses the most well-known foreign case law.

However, case law in connection with the Internet related issues has increased in the past few years and it is now possible to summarize the legal framework which applies to certain common Internet procedures that present relevant criticalities under a legal point of view.

The procedures on which we focuses in this article are deep-linking, framing and the use of metatags.