European Legal and Technical Network

The Freedom Task Force coordinates a large network of lawyers called the European Legal Network. If you want to find a legal expert in a country near you, please contact us. We can assist in finding legal experts in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the UK. We also maintain contacts in Australia, Canada, China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the USA.

If you are a legal expert interested in participating in the European Legal Network pleaselet us know. We are particularly interested in finding experts in the EU27 countries where we don't already have coverage.

Some exceptional network delegates are explicitly recommended by FSFE. To be explicitly recommended the delegate must have contributed significantly to Free Software and be approved by the governing council of FSFE.

Explicitly recommended lawyers:

Germany
Dr. Till Jaeger is a partner in the Berlin law firm JBB Rechtsanwälte. He represents FSFE in Germany and Harald Welte in GPL enforcement cases. He is chair of the "Internationalization" subcommittee within the GPLv3 process.
Email: jaeger [at] jbb.de
Telephone: +49 30 443 765 0
Post: JBB Rechtsanwälte, Christinenstrasse 18/19, 10119 Berlin, Germany.

Italy
Carlo Piana is a lawyer and Free Software advocate based in Milan. Among other things, he has represented FSFE and Samba in the Microsoft vs. EC Commission Antitrust case and is helping and advising many other Free Software projects to obtain necessary interoperability information following the victory in that case. He is also active in the promotion of Open Standards and lectures at the University of Milan.
Email: carlo [at ] piana.eu
Web: ("Law is Freedom") http://www.piana.eu
Professional website: ("Law is Freedom") http://law.piana.eu
Telephone:+39 347 8835209
Post:Avv. Carlo Piana, Piazza Castello 24, 20121 Milan, Italy.

Explicitly recommended technical experts:

Germany
Harald Welte is a kernel programmer, the founder of GPL-Violations.org and one of the primary engineers behind the creation of the OpenMoko Free Software telephone project.
Email: laforge [at] gnumonks.org

The Netherlands
Armijn Hemel is a system administrator and a primary member of the GPL-Violations.org team.
Email: armijn [at] uulug.nl

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