With a short note (published on its website at the address: http://www.anica.it/online/index.php/news.html), ANICA (the Italian National Association of Cinematographic Audiovisual and Multimedia) has bluntly disapproved the step back took by AGCOM over the possibility of exercising its powers regarding protection of Copyright, as expressed by AGCOM’s President, Corrado Calabro, in his recent hearing to the Senate.
The President of ANICA, Riccardo Tozzi, defines “farcical” the conduct shown by the Authority on the matter, criticizing the first announcement of intention to exercise such powers, the long consultations taken with the players of the market and the final abrupt denial of its prior intensions. The President closes his intervention expressing his sincerest hope that the Italian Government, casting aside the immobility shown in recent years, will finally intervene, and adopt the urgent measures needed in the audiovisual sector, to to combat piracy and to renew a culture of legality and quality of contents.