Ugo Pagallo is a Full Professor in Philosophy of Law at the University of Torino, Law School, since 2000, Faculty at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, U.K., and Visiting Professor of Comparative Privacy Law at Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C. He is editor of the Digitalica series published by Giappichelli in Turin and co-editor of the AICOL series by Springer: Since 2008 member of the Programme Committee of ETHICOMP. In addition to numerous essays in scholarly journals like Journal of Business Ethics, AI & Society, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Hobbes Studies, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Apuntes filosóficos, and so forth, he is the author of eight monographs. His main interests are AI & Law, Network theory, Robotics, and Information Technology Law (specially data protection law and copyright).

Alessandro Mantelero is Confirmed Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Fourth School of Engineering Management and Industrial Engineering, where he teaches Private Law. He graduated cum laude in Law at the University of Turin on 1998. Ph.D. in Civil Law from the same University. Alessandro is author of numerous publications, among which are the following: Attività di impresa in Internet e tutela della persona, CEDAM, Padova, 2004, and Il costo della privacy tra valore della persona e ragione d'impresa, Giuffrè, Milano, 2007. He is currently focusing his studies on data protection, ISP liability and legal implications of cloud computing.

Davide Bardone received the B.S. and the M.S. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He currently is a Ph.D. student in Information and System Engineering at Politecnico di Torino with the Internet Media Group and the NEXA Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include: digital on-line contents estimation techniques; online social networks modeling and analysis; lossless image and video coding.

Simone Basso received the Bachelor and the MoS in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, in 2006 and 2009 respectively. His research interests include TCP, Internet traffic management, network neutrality, peer to peer networks, streaming, kernel-level programming, and wireless transmission and drivers. He currently is a PhD student in Information and System Engineering at Politecnico di Torino with the Internet Media Group and the NEXA Center for Internet & Society. He's fellow of the NEXA Center since 2010 and he is the main researcher and developer behind the Neubot Project on Network Neutrality.

Silvia Bisi joined the NEXA Center for Internet & Society as a fellow in January 2010. She’s a lawyer, with a Post-graduate Master of first level in “IT Law and Legal Informatics” and a Ph.D. on the same subject from the University of Bologna. Her research interests are mainly focused on data protection issues and, more generally, ICT and fundamental freedoms issues. Her research project at NEXA is about anonymity of Internet users and aims to analyse the consequences on privacy, fundamental freedoms, innovation and business models of a duty to identify users and track their on-line activities.

Andrea Cairola is a journalist, a video maker and an expert in international cooperation in the field of media development and promotion of press freedom. Recently, he has produced and hosted a current-affairs TV series about investigative journalism for Current Tv Italy; launched among the Italian media community the proposal to create in Italy a Center for Investigative Reporting; worked for the International pages of Il Fatto daily newspaper. In the past, he has produced video contributions aired on Report, prime-time investigative programme on the Italian public broadcaster RAI; collaborated regularly with La Stampa daily and with a number of mainstream magazines. In 2003, he has written and co-directed the documentary Citizen Berlusconi, produced by the US PBS broadcaster WNET13 and by a pool of European public service televisions and broadcasted in more than 20 countries around the world. For five years (2003-2008), he was staff of UNESCO, the United Nations agency with the mandate to promote free flow of information and freedom of expression Ð first based in Afghanistan and then in the Freedom of Expression division at the Paris-headquarter. While at UNESCO, he dealt with international cooperation to develop pluralist, independent, professional media in Afghanistan, Kazakistan, Central African Republic, Balkans and the Transcaucasian countries and other conflict/post-conflict environments. He has also supervised the editing of publications about comparative media law and freedom of information.
Andrea Cairola holds a first advanced degree in Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan, a MA in International Journalism from the City University of London, and a diploma as Media Law Advocate by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy of the Oxford University.

Elias S. G. Carotti received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering in 2004, both from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. In 2003 he was a Visiting Researcher at the Electrical Engineering department, Penn State University, State College, PA, where he worked on joint source channel decoding for predictively encoded sources. He is currently a post-doc researcher at the Politecnico di Torino. His main research interests are image and video coding (especially focusing on lossless coding) and biomedical signal coding, and, more recently online social networks.

Corrado joined the NEXA Center in March 2009 as intern, working on COMMUNIA Project. Holding a Bachelor degree in International and Public Law and a Master's degree in Law from the University of Turin (Italy), he is attending the Certificate of Transnational Law program at the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
His research interests are focused on the impact of new technologies on both public and private law.

Giancarlo Frosio joined the COMMUNIA project in March 2010 as the project owner of the Final Strategic Report on the digital public domain. Giancarlo is a qualified attorney with a law degree from Università Cattolica in Milan, an LL.M in information technology and telecommunications law from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and an LL.M with emphasis in intellectual property law from Duke University in Durham, NC. He is currently completing his doctoral degree in intellectual property law at Duke University Law School under the supervision of Professor Jerome H. Reichman. His doctoral research focuses on copyright law, public domain, Internet and user based creativity, network information economy, access to knowledge (A2K), and identity politics. He is a fellow of the Nexa Research Center for Internet and Society. He is also the author of numerous legal articles and publications.

Raimondo holds a master's degree in Industrial engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin. Prior to joining the NEXA Center in 2012, he worked as researcher at Fondazione Rosselli and as project manager at Cotec, an Italian think tank on innovation policy. He has been involved in several EU projects in the fields of economics of science / technology foresight and, since 2009, in EVPSI. His research activity at the NEXA Center covers the impact of Open Data models, also applied to Public Sector Information, from a multidisciplinary 'Internet Science' perspective.

Dr. Cristiana Sappa holds a degree in Business Law, a post-graduate diploma in Intellectual Property and New Technologies and a PhD in Private Law, major Intellectual Property Law and Competition. Her main research fields are Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law, with a particular interest in digitization related legal issues. She is currently project manager of two public sector information related projects: LAPSI Thematic Network and EVPSI research project.

Claudio Artusio graduated in Law at the Univerisity of Turin in 2009. He started collaborating with the NEXA Center during the spring of 2010, collecting material and news to post on the Creative Commons Italia website. He is currently managing the contents of the EVPSI Research Project website along with the contents of the LAPSI Thematic Network website. Furthermore, he is involved in the EVPSI Research Project studying the potential connections between Trademarks (and related IP rights) and Public Sector Information.

Lorenzo Benussi, degree (Laurea Magistrale) in Communication Sciences and PhD in Economics of Innovation, is Business Developer at the TOP-IX Consortium where he is appointed to support the development of innovative projects and research fellow of the NEXA Centre. Prior to joining TOP-IX, he was research fellow at the University of Turin and the University of Manchester where he taught and conducted researches on the economics and management of innovation and he was co-director of OpensourceLab. His main interest, both as professional and researcher, is the evolution of ICT due to the pervasive diffusion of digital networks.

Dr. Enrico Bertacchini graduated in Economics at the University of Turin and holds a Master in Economics from CORIPE–Collegio Carlo Alberto and a Ph.D. in Institutions, Economics and Law from the Universities of Turin and Gent. He is a researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Turin. His main interests within the “Internet & society” field concern Internet as an infrastructure for the production of and access to information goods and the economic analysis of the information society. He has multidisciplinary competences concerning the economics of culture and the economic analysis of intellectual property, with a particular focus on the dynamics of production of and access to information goods.

Carlo Blengino lives in Turin and is a lawyer and a partner of the legal firm “Studio Legale Catalano Penalisti Associati”. He deals exclusively with criminal law cases, with special reference to culpable crimes, professional liabilities, economics criminal laws, intellectual property rights, crimes involved with IT and new technologies, defense of privacy and personal data. Since the early nineties, he has debated in law courts the main issues of copyright, from CDs rental to campaigns for file sharing (among his many defenses, the one in the well-known sentence on downloading -Cass.149/07- and the defense of many users in the Peppermint case). He thus gained a concrete experience of sanctions in the area of copyright law. He is a member of the IT Commission within the Bar Council of Turin. He contributes to several on-line magazines, to the magazine “Diritto dell’Informazione e dell’Informatica” of the Calamandrei Foundation and his works are published by Giappichelli Editore, UTET Giuridica and EGEA. He is a fellow of NEXA Center for Internet & Society of Turin Polytechnic.

Nicola Bottero is a practicing lawyer with a degree in Law from the University of Turin with a thesis on comparative law. He also graduated in the Intellectual property Specialization Course jointly organized by the University of Turin and the WIPO Academy. On top of practicing private law, industrial law and commercial law, works with the Chairs of Commercial and Industrial Law at the Law Faculty of the Universities of Turin and of Eastern Piedmont. He also teaches industrial law within some master degrees. He has been a member of the working group of Creative Commons Italy since its beginnings in 2003.

Dr. Irene Cassarino holds a degree in Management Engineering a PhD from the Polytechnic of Turin. She also studied at the ARC Centre for Innovation in Creative Industries in Brisbane, Australia, at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and the MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. Her Ph.D. dissertation discusses the impact of the Internet and of digital (re)production tools on industries, whose production model has been traditionally based on their control on the reproduction of creative works: music, literature, cinema. Her findings have been presented in journals and conferences all over the world (UK, AU, Japan). She collaborated as a research assistant with the Dpt. of Production Systems and Business Economics of the Polytechnic of Turin, with the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford and with the Piedmont Regional Government in the policy advisory staff of the Ministry for Research and Innovation. She currently works as open innovation expert at Experientia, an international experience design consultancy based in Turin.

Italian lawyer, working in the field of commercial and contract law, Information Technology law, Copyright, Patent and Trademark law. He teaches "Law and ethics of communication" at the Politecnico di Torino, Faculty of Information Engineering. President of the Associazione per il software libero (www.softwarelibero.it), member of Hipatia (www.hipatia.net) member of the working group of Creative Commons Italy since its beginnings in 2003.

Dr. Alessandro Cogo received his degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin on 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in Intellectual Property Law from the Universities of Pavia and Munich. Author of essays, commentaries and case comments, he is currently focusing his studies on the management of copyright and related rights.

Deborah De Angelis has a degree in Law from Luiss University in Rome; in January 2000 she became a lawyer specialized in digital music law. In 2001 she founded the legal office DDA. She also authored various publications in matters relating to authors' digital rights. In May 2004 became a member of the Creative Commons Italy working group. Since January 2008 she is the President of A-DJ, an international associations who cares legally protecting and promoting professional DJs.
She has a deep knowledge of all legal issues related to the working of collecting societies (with particular reference to the Italian Society of Authors and Editors, SIAE): this expertise is especially valuable within the Creative Commons and related projects. Since December 2008 she is the Coordinator of Creative Commons Italy / SIAE Working Group.

Carolina Cordero di Vonzo has a degree in law from the University of Turin and is currently working as an intern in a law firm. Some of her topics of interested within the “Internet & society" field concern: intellectual property rights on music and the activities of DJs; the Internet Bill of Rights and the problem of Internet Governance (including privacy related issues); the Copyright 2.0 issue and the evolution of copyright in general; web radios and web TV; social networks.

Thomas is currently holding a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, where he also teaches in the field of law and new technologies. His research focuses in particular on intellectual property, information and technology law, and digital freedoms. Over the past year FLOSS and its adoption in both the public and corporate sector in Canada, and the issue of the so called Network Neutrality (especially in north America) have been the core of his activity. He is also a NEXA research-fellow, and in particular he is the Operations Manager of the SeLiLi clinic on FLOSS and Open Content licenses.

Massimo Travostino has a degree in intellectual property and international law from the University of Turin. He is a practicing lawyer at the independent law firm Studio Legale Pecoraro–Travostino. He teached in various graduate and undergraduate courses and authored articles on Italian and international journals. He is a member of the following boards: Commissione Informatica of the Turin Bar Association; Executive Commettee of the International Association for Entertainment Lawyers; Scientific Committee of the Centro Studi di Informatica Giuridica. He is a member of the working group of Creative Commons Italia since its beginnings in 2003.

Valentin Vitkov has a degree in law from the University of Milan and works in an italian law firm. His main interests concern the civil and economic liberties within a society that is deeply influenced by information and communication technologies, as well as the relationships between intellectual property rights, competition, innovation and public domain. He collaborates with the Law of Informatics Chair of the Milan State University. He fluently speaks Italian, English, French and Bulgarian. Together with Andrea Glorioso, he authored NEXA comparison study on the contractual practices of a significant number of Italian Internet service providers with reference to network neutrality.