Luca Spinelli
Luca Spinelli is a Swiss investigative journalist, columnist and the founder of the legal open source project Oscon.
Biography
Born in Italy, Spinelli started writing for VNU Business Publications and Feltrinelli. Since January 2007, he has been columnist for the newspaper Punto Informatico. He has written front page news for La Repubblica, La Stampa, Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera, Il Manifesto and others (paper or online version).[1]
While still a university student, in 2004 he founded Oscon, a legal non-profit and open project that is committed to spreading a free standard contract and provides online legal advising. Up to 2015, the contract has been downloaded more than 200.000 times and it is one of the most used in Italy.[2][3][4]
Spinelli has written investigations witch gave rise to widespread debates. In July 2007, MPs Franco Grillini and Cinzia Dato appended one of Spinelli's investigations about copyright[5] to a parliamentary inquiry towards vice-Prime Minister Francesco Rutelli, promoting a reform of the legislation on copyright.[6] After such investigations, the lack of freedom of panorama in the Italian legal system has been considered a matter of fact[7][8][9] or a subject of discussion.[10][11] In December 2007, Spinelli's reporting on a security bill promoted by the Government caused its correction during the Council of Ministers of Italy.[12] In 2008, his investigation on the Government budget revealed the intention to establish public funding for record labels, causing the reaction of Senator Gabriella Carlucci and the FIMI's president.[13]
The same year, Spinelli wrote an investigation about the national web portal Italia.it, criticizing the shut down of the web site and the waste of public money, cited by Sergio Rizzo in his bestseller Rapaci (Rizzoli, 2009).[14] On February 2008 his investigation on a bill by Ricardo Franco Levi led to a wide online strike promoted by Beppe Grillo,[15][16] criticisms by journalists and politicians (Gad Lerner, Vincenzo Vita, Giuseppe Giulietti, Pino Scaccia), and eventually caused the withdrawal of the bill.[15]
In 2008 Spinelli wrote with lawyer G. Scorza the bill "Give a meaning to the degradation", with the participation of MPs Bruno Mellano, Mauro Bulgarelli, Elio Veltri and others.[17] The bill was about a modification of the Italian copyright law and scheduled to be discussed to the Chamber of Deputies, but the fall of the Government halted the process. It was subsequently supported by the Radical Party in the late 2010.[18] The following year, Spinelli's journalistic investigation „La Camera manda avanti il Ddl anti-blog“ was nominated for the 30th Ischia International Journalism Award.[19] In March 2009, he released for first the news of the fall of Swiss into the gray list of tax heavens.[20] and subsequently commented up to now most of the Double taxation Conventions between Switzerland and other nations (USA, Mexico, Luxemburg, Denmarx, Noraway, Austria, Netherland, UK, Qatar, Poland, India, Finland...).
Amongst the Italian expert on accessibility, he was a selected member of the SIE (Italian associate of the International Ergonomics Association), and has been publishing educational articles and essays. He has lectured and provided scientific consulting to the University of Genoa.[1] He is also author of interviews with minister Antonio Di Pietro, scientist Corrado Bohm and activist Ludwig Minelli.[1]
Awards and nominations
| Year | Work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | journalistic investigation „La Camera manda avanti il Ddl anti-blog“ | Ischia International Journalism Award | Nominated |
References
- ^ a b c Luca Spinelli, Who's sho, 2015
- ^ Davide Falanga, Oscon, il contratto open source, OneOpenSource, 2008
- ^ Pierluigi Emmulo, Contratto per realizzazione siti Web e programmi, WebmasterPoint, 2008
- ^ Oscon, Two hundred thousand copies for two millions eyes, 2013
- ^ Anna Masera, L'ultima follia? Essere costretti a rivendicare il "diritto di panorama", La Stampa, 18. February 2008
- ^ Parliamentary inquiry by MPs Franco Grillini
- ^ Laukyte, Migle. “A Rawlsian Perspective on Copyright and Justice in Italy“, 5th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics, Greece, 2012
- ^ Sapienza University of Rome, Copyright in Italy, 2013
- ^ University of Pisa, Laboratorio di scrittura, 2012
- ^ Resta, Giorgio. “Diritti esclusivi e nuovi beni immateriali“, Utet Giuridica, 2010. ISBN 9788859801009
- ^ A. Gaudenzi, Il nuovo diritto d’autore, Maggioli, 2012. ISBN 8838774218
- ^ Punto Informatico, Rome: chatting is not a crime (anymore), December 2007
- ^ Punto Informatico, Public funding for record labels, December 2007
- ^ Rizzo, Sergio (2009). Rapaci, il disastroso ritorno dello Stato nell'economia italiana (in Italian). Rizzoli. p. 224. ISBN 9788817030496.
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- ^ Beppe Grillo, Free Blogger, November 2008
- ^ Diritto.it, Give a meaning to the degratation, 2008
- ^ Radicali.it, Anche l'Italia segua l'esempio della Gran Bretagna nell'impegno sul fair use, 2010
- ^ XXX International Ischia Awards, 30. April 2009, Nova100 - Il Sole 24 Ore
- ^ LaNotizia, Tax heavens list, 2009
External links
- Luca Spinelli, Official website
- Liquida Magazine, Interview with Luca Spinelli[dead link], April 2009 Template:It icon