Mr Carlo Piana
http://www.piana.eu
Italy
Independent lawyer specialising in Information Technology and Telecommunication Law and Free Software Advocate. Started by using GNU/Linux and became intrigued by the legal and philosophical implications of it. Serves as Counsel to the Free Software Foundation Europe and advises projects and companies active in Free and Open Source Software. Based in Milan, he has accumulated experience for more than 15 years in the IT legal consulting sector, in a medium-sized firm, as name partner in a boutique firm and now in a solo practice entirely dedicated to IT. He has been involved in the largest antitrust litigation in Europe which led to the disclosure of secret protocols in the Workgroup Server area, and was called to the Board of the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation. He runs a small bi-lingual blog on Digital Liberties named "Law is Freedom"