“We are in a complex phase, characterized by a tumultuous transition to the digital world and which constitutes one of the most important challenges that await Agcom in this council”. Giacomo Lasorella, 57, president of Agcom since October 2020, is preparing today to illustrate his first Report to Parliament. It does so with the approval of changes to the copyright regulation with which the innovations introduced by the Relaunch Decree have been given practical declination, with Agcom’s competence also extended to piracy on instant messaging services, from Whatsapp to Messenger . “This is the confirmation of an initiative of the previous council which also anticipated European legislation”. This is a case of copyright, from which all the evidence of a changing context emerges, between digital platforms, the functioning of networks and issues related to pluralism, on which Agcom is called to a leading role.
But does the Authority have the necessary tools to face this transition to the digital world? After all, many of the subjects in question do not fall within Agcom’s range of action. And so you don’t risk having your weapons blunt without legislative intervention?
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The legislator is actually intervening. The 2021 budget law assigned to the Authority the competences regarding the application of the Regulation Platform to business and the directives on audiovisual services (Smav, ed.) and copyright. Then at the European level I recall the two regulation proposals launched by the EU Commission – il Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act – which will have repercussions at the national level according to the choices of the legislator. The tools are painstakingly crafting. Sure, technology goes much faster than legislation, but we’re trying to keep up. And in any case, in the final analysis, Agcom is gearing up to govern this digital turnaround for the supervisory acts of its competence.
Speaking of innovations in everyday life, a first great test will be on the use of the Serie A football championship matches. From August 21, the starting day of the championship, the prevailing mode will be in streaming, given that the rights if they were awarded by Dazn in partnership with Tim.
Indeed, Agcom has adopted a policy act with the dual purpose of avoiding network congestion phenomena, resulting from traffic peaks, and of preventing any inefficiencies for subscribers.