Speakers

Fulvio Sarzana

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Fulvio Sarzana, born in 1969, graduated with honours in Law at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
He is a Supreme Court Barrister authorised to practise in the highest courts (Council of State and Constitutional Court).

He has taught, as a Contract Lecturer, the subjects of “Public Law” and “Legal regulation of networks” at the Faculty of Communications Sciences at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, after winning a grant to research the topic of the so-called “electronic process”.

He currently runs a blog on the online edition of the daily “Il Fatto Quotidiano”.
During the course of his professional activity he has been involved primarily in matters linked to fundamental rights and the internet and he has participated as legal advisor to the Association of Electronic Communications Operators and various ministerial working groups on the regulating of ICT. He is the author of the treatise “Legal aspects of business via the internet” published by Giuffrè, and the text “Contracts for the internet and electronic business” for the same publishers and was the editor of the book “e-Government” for the publishing house, “La Tribuna”.

Most recently, in 2010, he published the text “Video-surveillance” for Maggioli.
In the course of 2011 he was one of the leaders of the Movement for the Protection of Civil Rights on the Internet www.sitononraggiungibile.info directed by, among others, the Agora Digital Associations, Adiconsum, Altroconsumo, Assoprovider (concommercio), Assonet (confesercenti), and in this role he coordinated the book “Property Rights and Fundamental Rights on the Internet” which was the most-downloaded free e-book on the internet in the second half of 2011.

The Movement, set up to establish the right of expression and freedom of information on the web, has collected thirty thousand signatures on the internet.
During the course of 2012, together with the Agora Digital Associations of the Civil Society and others, he made a proposal to Parliament, writing the relative texts, for the presentation of bills for reforming the governing of the SIAE, for the free expansion of connectivity via wi-fi, and the reduction of VAT on texts available on the internet, as well as for reforming the governing of television broadcasting frequencies for use via the internet in places affected by the digital divide.