The two organizations battle is going for the use of the trademark “Swedish Poker Championships”, a competition already held online and offline.
Both the SPA and Svenska Spel will arrange online championships in November 2007 with a similar name.
SPA says they have trademark on that name -Â “It is very shocking that a crown corporation with [...]
An Utrech court has decided that prohibited Unibet gambling proposers by means of its Internet site illegal offer gambling games, among which gambling football paid on Dutch amateur games and games from.
As this Dutch website reportsthe Dutch monopoly operator De Lotto says it has secured a court verdict last week against European online operator Unibet, [...]
The European Interactive Gaming Congress and Expo (EIG) held in October 2007 in Barcelona was the place where a new code of conduct for the european gambling industry was suggested, starting from a worshop discussion started by Microgaming and than joined by GamCare, eCogra, and the RGA that presented the new code of [...]
According with an interesting article in Liberation, France has already started considering how it will change its national gambling laws in order to comply with the obligations required by the European Commission.
According with new info France has until October 29 to act. But France refuses the principle of mutual recognition, which allows a company [...]
This is the new deadline, extended by 2 months, given by the European Commission to France and Greece for a corelation of their laws with the EU principle of free movement of services within the European Union.
Otherwise, a complaint in front the European Court of Justice will be started, as confirmed by Oliver Drewes, a [...]
Sealand, world’s smallest state located six miles off the Eastern shores of Great Britain, could become a high target for online businesses after it has announced that it is in negociations with a Russian consortium in order to make a multi-million dollar investment for an online casino. A sattelite could have been launched from the [...]
The study released by the UK Gambling Commission today - 19 September 2007 - shows that the gambling problem has not increased in the last 8 years, despite the contradictory opinions of “many experts” that warned of the “unlimited dangers” of the online gambling issues.
Some essential issues of the report :
68% of the population, that [...]
The Swedish Gaming Board, called in their own language the Lotteriinspektionen, has requested UK-based betting exchange RedBet Ltd to send information on its employees.
Apparantly they think Redbet has emplyees based in Sweden : ” This private information has been requested in an attempt to ascertain whether Redbet has too many employees based in Sweden, [...]
South Aforica looks more progressive than the US. Atleast in the field of online gmbling, because the African state has just introduced a bill that makes Internet Gambling legal, though the Department of Trade and Industry.
software vendors providing online gambling platforms will be required to obtain a national license for key staff as well as [...]
The Italian Authority for State Monopolies (Amministrazione autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato) has announced that it might change again the regulatory framework for remote gambling and to allow credit cards usage on in the Italian licensed website.
The new laws could be introduced in 2008 and wants to stop money laundring activities.
It remains [...]