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Carlo Piana is a lawyer by training and a Free Software advocate. A qualified attorney in Italy, Piana has been practicing IT law since 1995, focusing his practice on software, technology, standardization, data protection and digital liberties in general,〔As reported in his professional website at http://law.piana.eu/areas〕 and serves as external General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation Europe ("FSFE"). Piana has been involved in some of the cornerstone legal cases in Europe, such as the long-running antitrust battle between the EU Commission and Microsoft 〔An article from NY Times covering the 2006 hearing and the Free Software activitsts' role http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/business/worldbusiness/29soft.html?ei=5088&en=bc84dbaf41a6aaa1&ex=1303963200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print〕〔http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/microsoft%E2%80%99s-new-battle-with-old-enemy/60834.aspx〕 where he represents both the FSFE and the Samba Team, the standardization of OOXML at ISO/IEC, and more recently defending Oracle 〔http://openlife.cc/blogs/2009/october/mr-carlo-piana-europes-free-software-legal-hero-joins-oracle-co-counsel〕〔http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091021164738392〕 in its attempted acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Piana is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review ("IFOSS L. rev.") 〔http://ifosslr.org〕 and is member of the board of directors of the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation.〔http://protocolfreedom.org〕 In 2008 he established a freelance consulting practice on IT law, where he leads a small group of IT lawyers named (Array ). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carlo Piana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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