Alberto Pianon
Lawyer in Vicenza and member of the local Bar Association. In 2003 he was granted the European Master in Law and Economics cum laude by the University of Rotterdam (The Netherlands), with a published Master Thesis about legal protection of software, comparing trade secret protection versus open source licenses from a Law and Economics perspective.
His main practice area is TLC/ICT Law, particularly e-commerce, data retention, domain names, software licenses and contracts.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Erasmus Law and Economics Review, an on-line review which aims at spreading the Law and Economics approach in order to break down national barriers and enable lawyers from all over the world to communicate with each other by providing a common framework of thinking.
Since 2008 he is member of the Freedom Task Force of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
Carlo Piana
Lawyer in Milan, member of the local bar and admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, Carlo is a pre-eminent Italian IT Lawyer, working almost exclusively in the Information Technology and Telecommunication Law, a field where he began consulting in 1994. Passionate about technology and Free Software (Open Source) he has been active in many battles for Digital Rights and against monopolization, as with the antitrust cases in the Software Workgroup Servers field (where he represented the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Samba Team) or with the standardization process of XML document formats (like DIS29500, also known as ECMA 376 or Office Open XML – OOXML), or again more recently in one of the largest IT acquisitions ever, involving the world’s largest Free Software company as target.
Carlo is the former Chairman of the Board, and current member, of the Open Source Initiative and has been General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation Europe, has been a member of the Advising Committee of the Italian Digital Agency for laying down the first National rules for software procurement. He is author of several articles in the areas of Civil Law, IT&TLC Law and data protection on Italian and International reviews and a founding member of the Editorial Committee of the International Free and Open Source Law Review. He is president of euroITcounsel and member of the IP and OS advisory of UNTIL, the United Nations’ Technology Innovation Laboratories.
He mainly deals with licensing and technology transfers (mostly in the field of telecommunication, media and software), software protection and compliance, trademarks, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
He has been included (14 times in 16 editions) in the Italian section of the Who’s Who Legal for Data (Information Technology).
Giovanni Battista Gallus
Copyright, Criminal, Data Protection/Privacy and IT law are his main areas of expertise. In recent years, he has been devoting a significant part of his practice to the legal aspects of UAVs (drones) After a cum laude degree in Law in Italy, he moved to Great Britain for the Master of Laws in Maritime Law and Information Technology Law at the University College London – UCL. Afterward, he earned a PhD. In 2009 he obtains the European Certificate on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence (ECCE). He is ISO 27001:2013 Certified Lead Auditor (Information Security Management System). Member of the Bar of Cagliari since 1996, admitted to the Supreme Court since 2009, Data Protection Officer for several public entities, he is a fellow of the Department “Informatica Giuridica” at the Università Statale of Milan where he teaches in the Post-Graduate Course in Digital Forensics and cybercrime. He also teaches at the Master for Data Protection Officers, organized by the Politecnico of Milan. Fellow of the Nexa Center on Internet and Society and of the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights. Author of several publications on the above mentioned areas and speaker at the main national and international congresses, he combines his legal profession with an intense teaching activity, mainly in the field of copyright, Free/Open Source Software, data protection, IT security, digital forensics and drones. Member of the Data Protection Commission of the Italian Bar Association (Consiglio Nazionale Forense)
Francesco Paolo Micozzi
Lawyer, he concentrates on criminal law, with a particular emphasis on IT law, privacy, cybersecurity, money laundering, copyright. He is lecturer on “Informatica Giuridica” at the University of Milan (_Università degli Studi di Milano_) and he has authored several publications on information technology criminal law. He is a member of the working group of the Italian Foundation for Forensic Innovation (FFIF) at the National Bar, and of the working groups “Surveillance” and “E-justice” for the National Bar Association and at CCBE in Brussels (Conseil des Barreaux Européens). He is also member of the Council of his Bar (Cagliari).
Guglielmo Troiano
With a technical background coming from being an IT Analyst for several years before practicing law, he has an in-depth expertise in civil and commercial law focused on copyright, industrial property and privacy law especially in the field of information technology. After Law Degree at University of Milan he has started his training as lawyer in preeminent law firms across Europe and he has got a Master in Internet Law at University of Padua.
Currently advises companies, mostly software houses and ISPs, regarding civil liability, IP negotiation, ICT contracts, competition, trademarks, domain names, data protection (privacy) and IT security, on both transactional and litigation aspects.
He also cooperates with some associations that deal with IT security (Oracle Community for Security, Cloud Security Alliance Italy Chapter). He often writes scientific articles (Opensource.com, Ciberspazio e Diritto, Diritto e Giustizia, LeggiOggi, ICT4Executive).
From 2009 to 2014 he worked as scholar at University of Milan, chair of Legal Informatics, where he did lectures for students and attendees of Post-Graduate Course in Digital Forensics, Privacy, Cloud and Cyber Warfare (edition 2014).
During his professional experience he has been part of important lawsuits (above all Microsoft vs. European Commission – Case T/201-04 before European Court of Justice) and he has worked on complex projects on Privacy compliance.
Last but not least, he has a strong attitude for legal issues of free and open source software.
Simone Aliprandi
He graduated in Law from the University of Pavia (with a thesis in Intellectual Property Law on open content licenses) and is a member of the Bar of Lodi. He earned a further degree in Public Administration Science and later won a scholarship for a PhD program in Information Society at University of Milano-Bicocca. The doctoral program, which ended in January 2012 with a dissertation about the social perception of copyright in the digital age, has given him the opportunity to carry out a research experience based in the USA. He always had equal interest for the professional activity (specifically giving advice in the fields of intellectual property law and ICT law) and for academic activities (lecturing and research). In fact, parallel to his work within the Array team, he constantly collaborates with university departments and research institutions, giving lectures, following research projects and editing publications. He is also “Professor of Legal Issues” at the SAE Institute in Milan (an international consortium with Middlesex University of London) and collaborates with the Chair of Legal Informatics of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
He also deals with science dissemination on the issues within his area of concentration, with an intense publishing activity, releasing all his works with open content licenses.