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Italian Rules Regarding Use of Employees’ Portrait

Abstract

Nowadays, business communication is often being implemented on corporate websites and social media through videos and photographs that sometimes make employees recognizable. This happens mainly in the company's Facebook pages, where photographs of groups of smiling employees are essentially posted to testify to the “team spirit” placed at the heart of company’s activities. In the industrial field employee images are also present in tutorials films spread on the Internet to illustrate the features of some company’s manufacturing processes, machinery, etc...

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Authors

Renato D'Andrea
Of Counsel Lawyer, Lexellent, Italy

For over 35 years, Renato D'Andrea has been handling disputes concerning the protection of intangible corporate assets (inventions, software, designs, trademarks, trade secrets, strategic human resources, corporate reputation), assisting clients both in the incorporation phase and in the contractual management and judicial enforcement of IP rights. In the field of employment law, Renato D’Andrea deals mainly with policies for the protection of intangible corporate assets, clauses relating to employee inventions, non-competition agreements, stability and confidentiality agreements, cases of enticement of employees or theft of secrets by competitors and/or former employees, and related labour and/or unfair competition litigation. Renato D'Andrea is a member of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), LES (Licensing Executives Society), IBA (International Bar Association)

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Ugo Ettore Di Stefano
Lawyer, Lexellent, Italy

Lawyer - Senior Partner at LEXELLENT Former Group General Counsel, Company Board Secretary, Member of Board and Data Protection Officer at Mondadori Group.

Companies

Lexellent

Lexellent is an Italian lawfirm operating in the areas of employment law, industrial relations, trade union relations and their relative contentious matters, guaranteeing a thorough, in-depth understanding of the legislative, regulatory and contractual system which governs all aspects of the employment relationship.

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Lexellent

LEXELLENT is an Italian Law firm specialized in labor law, data protection law and corporate compliance. Lexellent is member of the international law firms network ELLINT (Employment and Labor Lawyers International)

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