Array – Array is an array

A Law Firm

Founded in 2009 as a group of independent lawyers (“Array is an array”), Array is reborn in 2014 as a loosely knit law firm composed by professionals with an outstanding profile in the fields of Information Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT), with long standing experience in consultancy as well as in litigation in civil, criminal, administrative and ADR procedures. Array operates on the European market by offering advice to clients ranging from small projects to large communities, from SMBs to Fortune 500 corporations.

Of IT Lawyers

Array is a group of IT lawyers, on the cutting edge of legal developments in the Information Technology, Media and Telecommunications field.

Array members have a focus on Free and Open Source Software, which in recent years has become mainstream, the fastest growing trend in the IT sector and one of the most challenging legal fields.

Array is not a network, Array is an array

Fully connected

Array is appointed local member in Italy of euroITcounsel, a quality circle among European Lawyers specializing in Information Technology and Telecommunication Law

Array is among the first European partners of Openchain
Array is appointed reference counsel to Assosoftware‘s members
Array is a member of the community of licensees at Open Invention Network
Array is in the list of certified lawyers of Black Duck Software

Who we are

Alberto Pianon

Partner

Coming from a solid and long experience in Commercial Law, Alberto has accrued an outstanding position in dealing with all fields of IT law, from technology transfer to data protection to e-commerce and data protection. He’s leading Array’s innovative tooling initiatives in the field of Foss compliance and documentation. He covers the fast-developing North-Eastern lands of Italy an does also international work.

Carlo Piana

Partner

With 20+ years’ experience in IT law, Carlo is considered a world-class lawyer when it comes to law applied to [free] software and technology, in both transactional and litigation work. Former GC of the Free Software Foundation Europe, President of EuroITcunsel and member of United Nations Technology Innovation Laboratories OS&IP advisory, is a leading figure in the Free/open source world and in the Digital Rights domain.

Giovanni Battista Gallus

Partner

With a long standing practice in Criminal Law, admitted before the Supreme Court, Giovanni Battista has become a pre-eminent expert in cybercrime and has been at the forefront of civil rights battles. ISO 27001 Certified Lead Auditor, Nexa Center an Hermes Center Fellow, his expertise covers Data Protection/Privacy, digital forensics and the many fields of IT law. DPO of several public entities, he is member of the Data Protection Commission of the National Bar Association

Francesco Paolo Micozzi

Partner

Criminal lawyer specializing in IT Law, privacy, cybersecurity, copyright. Member of the working groupo at Fondazione Italiana per l’Innovazione Forense (FIIF) at the National Bar. Member by appointment of the National Bar at the “Surveillance” e “E-justice” workgroups, in Bruxelles at the CCBE (Conseil des Barreaux Européens).

Guglielmo Troiano

Partner

With a technical background coming from al long experience as an IT Analyst for several years before practicing law, he has an in-depth expertise in civil and commercial law and has built a strong practice in data protection a field in which today Guglielmo primarily focuses, as advisor and Data Protection Officer (DPO) of large international clients’ branches in Italy and domestic enterprises alike.

Simone Aliprandi

Partner

Lawyer and Academic fellow, holding a PhD in Information Society, he is one of the main experts on copyleft, Creative Commons and innovative models of copyright management, topics on which he has published many articles and books. He is involved in wide spectrum legal advice activity along with lecturing and scientific divulgation.

Michela Pintus

Lawyer, she deals mainly with criminal law, ICT law and data protection law; in these subjects she has successfully completed important specialization courses at the CNF, the University of Milan and the IIP. She is part of the Privacy Team of various public and private entities, and she carries out consultancy and privacy assessment activities. Author of publications on privacy and data protecion, she is among the founding members of the UNIDPO Association (Italian National Union of Data Protection Officer).

Alba Calia

Graduated with a dissertation in Legal Informatics entitled “The Open Access”, she collaborates with the Chair of Legal Informatics and Principles of Philosophy of Law at the University of Cagliari. In 2018 she qualified as an Attorney at Law and earned her Master degree in Competition and Innovation Law at the LUISS School of Law. As a lawyer, she deals mainly with data protection law and legal informatics, topics on which she has published scientific articles and performed lectures.

ARRAY IS AN ARRAY

We work as a networked team specializing in Information Technology Law.

What we do

Software

Free and Open Source Software

Drafting and reviewing licensing strategies, technological standards and interoperability in Italian and European Union competition laws, advising Free Software and open source software projects.

This is, undoubtedly, the specialty for which we are most renown.

Software auditing

License compatibility and licensing auditing, including via Fossology scan analysis, software projects legal validation and auditing, especially in the embedded systems domain

Antitrust

Thanks to groundbreaking work on the interaction between interoperability and competition, we are able to offer very targeted consultancy and services to protect against abuse of dominant positions; activities in the Standard Setting Bodies (SSB), competition in standardisation;

Governmental work

Software procurement rules, policies; reuse policies and licensing; licensing of public-sector made software; lobbying and public outreach;

Blockchain

Cryptocurrency, smart contracts, fintech, smart insurance contracts.

Contracts

Licensing

Drafting, reviewing and negotiation of contracts for TMT products and services in B2C and B2B contexts; outsourcing of information systems and network services, software development contracts, web site/webapp development, release of multimedia works and new media contents.

Advice

Outsourcing of information systems and network services, software licensing and subcontracting agreements, software development contracts, web site development, release of multimedia works and new media contents

Technology transfer

Licensing of relevant technology (patents, trade secrets), especially in multimedia sector.

Criminal law

Corporate liability

Compliance, models of organisation, management and control, organisational rules and procedures to prevent crimes, misconduct of employees, Non Disclosure Agreements, as provided by Law Decree 231/2001.

Computer crimes

Digital investigation in criminal cases involving computer crimes, interactions with foreign law firms in legal actions abroad.

Online defamation and reputation

Online defamation, hate speech and reputation management;

Criminal liability

Computer crimes and digital evidence, data protection crimes

IPR related crimes

IPR related offenses, website banning and filtering, p2p related crimes and investigations

Data Protection and Privacy

GDPR compliance

Compliance with data processing regulations, especially or exclusively by electronic means, drafting and reviewing of data security plans, engagement of System Administrators and Processors (including cloud providers of SaaS/PaaS), privacy policies.

Audit

Corporate compliance to Privacy Laws, security measures, impact assessment (DPIA), relations and inspections by Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante Privacy), ISO/IEC 27001 auditing preparation.

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing legal issues: geographical data segregation, supply chain, civil, criminal and administrative liabilities, security measures, terms of services compliance.

Information Governance

ISO/IEC 27001 compliance, security aspects for employees joining, moving and leaving an organisation, internal policies related to security of information systems, corporate devices policies, employee surveillance.