Italian Rules Regarding Use of Employees’ Portrait

Ugo Ettore Di Stefano, Senior Partner, Lexellent, Italy

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...

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

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)