Who we are
Alberto Pianon
Partner
Carlo Piana
Partner
With 25+ 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. Member of the Board of OSI and former GC of the FSFE, President of EuroITcounsel and member of United Nations UNTIL OS&IP advisory, is a leading figure in the Free/open source world and in the Digital Rights domain. He deals with many fields of IT law, from licensing and compliance, to open data, services contracts, trademarks and domain names, IT contracts, crypto and NFTs, antitrust, for the private as well as for the public sector.
Giovanni Battista Gallus
Partner
Francesco Paolo Micozzi
Partner
Guglielmo Troiano
Partner
Simone Aliprandi
Partner
Michela Pintus
Alba Calia
ARRAY IS AN ARRAY
We work as a networked team specializing in Information Technology Law.
What we do
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.
License compatibility and licensing auditing, including via Fossology scan analysis, software projects legal validation and auditing, especially in the embedded systems domain
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;
Software procurement rules, policies; reuse policies and licensing; licensing of public-sector made software; lobbying and public outreach;
Cryptocurrencies, including alt-coins, art NFT, smart contracts, fintech.
Contracts
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.
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
Licensing of relevant technology (patents, trade secrets), especially in multimedia sector.
Criminal law
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.
Digital investigation in criminal cases involving computer crimes, interactions with foreign law firms in legal actions abroad.
Online defamation, hate speech and reputation management;
Computer crimes and digital evidence, data protection crimes
IPR related offenses, website banning and filtering, p2p related crimes and investigations
Data Protection and Privacy
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.
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 legal issues: geographical data segregation, supply chain, civil, criminal and administrative liabilities, security measures, terms of services compliance.
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.
Online Services and E-commerce
Online derogation of corporations’ and individuals’ image, especially in services of the Information Society, obtaining a landmark decisions on automated services offered by ISPs.
Checking compliance of online services with the e-commerce rules
European Projects and public outreach activities on release of public data as open data; advice on licensing conditions, also of private entities and international bodies and associations. ademarks).
Drafting terms of service of innovative initiatives, dealing with data protection, ecommerce, opposing rights (such as copyright, database rights, trademarks).
Trademarks and Domain Names
Advice on drafting Trademark Policies; enforcement of trademarks worldwide; ADR and litigation against cybersquatting, typosquatting; defence against reverse hijacking of TM and domains.
Trademarks and domain names protection, strategic advice, for business, communities and projects.
Registration of trademarks, directly at CTM and worldwide through a leading service provider.
Where we are
Array Milano
Via Borgonuovo 7
20121 Milano
ph. +39 02 8718 6019
fax deprecated
Array Vicenza
Contrà Pedemuro San Biagio 45
36100 Vicenza
ph. +39 0444 1836651
fax +39 0444 546505
Array Cagliari
Via Agostino di Castelvì 9
09129 Cagliari
ph. +39 070 7966538
fax +39 070 2041360
Blog posts
Software patents in Brussels, round table with EPO
Array member Carlo Piana is going to be one of the three speakers in a round table at Open Forum Academy, of which he is [...]
Handbook on European Data Protection Law
This handbook on European data protection law is jointly prepared by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe together with the [...]
Free software and comparative evaluation in the Italian Public Administration
The on-going debate regarding the use of free and open source software in the Italian Public Administration (PA) seems to be coming to a satisfactory [...]
Open Source Day 2013
An interview to Carlo Piana at the Open Source Day in Rome, November 2013.