Primavera De Filippi is a French

legal scholar Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

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and artist, whose work focuses on the

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peer production Peer production (also known as mass collaboration) is a way of producing goods and services that relies on self-organizing communities of individuals. In such communities, the labor of many people is coordinated towards a shared outcome. Overview P ...

communities and

copyright law A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ...

. She is permanent researcher at the

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and Faculty Associate at the

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. She is author of the book ''Blockchain and the Law'' published by

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. As an activist, she is part of

Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has release ...

, the

Open Knowledge Foundation Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data. It was founded by Rufus Pollock on 20 May 2004 in Cambridge, UK. It is incorporated in England an ...

and the P2P Foundation, among others.

Education

Her interdisciplinary background is grounded in a wide range of academic studies. She holds an undergrad and Masters studies in Economics and Management (

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

, Milan), a Masters in Intellectual Property (

Queen Mary University of London , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

), and a PhD in law (

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...

, Florence). In her PhD thesis, she explored the legal challenges of copyright law in the digital environment, with special attention to the mechanisms of private ordering (e.g.

Digital Rights Management Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. ...

systems, Creative Commons licenses).

Career

During her PhD (2006–2010) at the

, she was visiting scholar in both the

University of Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

(New York) working with Barry Smith, and the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

working with

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (born March 1, 1973) is an American cyclist, academic and legal scholar. Van Houweling is Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law and serves as the chair of the board of Creative Commons ...

. In 2010, she joined the Centre for Administrative Science Research (CERSA) at CNRS and Universite de Paris II, working with Danièle Bourcier. She has been affiliated with the center since then, first as postdoctoral researcher, and since 2017 as a permanent researcher. In 2013, she became a fellow of the

Berkman Center for Internet and Society The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008 ...

(

), and during two years she researched there the concept of "governance by design" and its relation with

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

and

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer n ...

technologies. In 2015, she was promoted to the role of faculty associate at the center, which she holds nowadays. She has held status of visiting researcher in several institutions: in 2014, in the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro, and in 2017 in both the

WZB Berlin Social Science Center The WZB Berlin Social Science Center (german: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB), also known by its German initials WZB, is an internationally renowned research institute for the social sciences, the largest such institution ...

and the European University Institute. She was also one of the leading researchers in P2Pvalue, the leading European project on

Commons-based peer production Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a term coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler. It describes a model of socio-economic production in which large numbers of people work cooperatively; usually over the Internet. Commons-based p ...

, and is part of the editorial board of several journals, including: Digital Finance (Springer), Frontiers in Human Dynamics and the Journal of Open Hardware In 2019, she received an ERC grant with the project "BlockchainGov" to research blockchain governance.

Activism and art

Activism

Beyond her academic work, De Filippi has engaged in several activist and practitioner activities promoting the expansion of openness, democratic governance, peer-to-peer, or blockchain. In 2010, she joined the Open Knowledge Foundation as the coordinator of the public domain working group, through which she actively contributed to the making of the Public Domain Calculators. In 2012, she co-established the French chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Since 2011, she is co-founder of the International Communia Association for the promotion and the preservation of the digital public domain, and legal expert for Creative Commons France. Since 2016, she joined the advisory board of the P2P Foundation. In the frame of the

Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the privat ...

, she has co-founded the dynamic coalitions on platform responsibility, network neutrality and blockchain technology.

Art and journalism

De Filippi has been also a reputed artist, combining several forms of art with concepts around

free culture The free-culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others in the form of free content or Free content, open content without compensation to, or the consent of, the work's origin ...

and blockchain. Her latest and most popular works revolve around the

plantoid A plantoid is a robot or synthetic biology, synthetic organism designed to look, act and grow like a plant. The concept was first scientifically published in 2010 (although models of comparable systems controlled by neural networks date back to 2003 ...

, a "blockchain-based life form". She has also written Op'Eds in mainstream media such as

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Vice A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character tra ...

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Work

She has published more than 70 papers in the topics of blockchain, commons, cloud computing, peer-to-peer technologies and copyright law. Her works on the interactions of blockchain and law are regarded as substantially relevant in the young field of blockchain. In fact, her book ''Blockchain and the Law'' (

) was considered "an important new book" and a "deeply-researched book that can be expected to show up on law school syllabi for years to come" by

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, and was valued as a critical lens in

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. Her research in blockchain is often considered a reference on the field by popular media, such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', or ''

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''. She is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by

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Scientific and social recognitions

* Fortune 40 under 40 on fintech * Member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies at the

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Cambridge speaker * Commission recipient by

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Selected works

* De Filippi, P., Wright, A. (2018) ''Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code''. Harvard University Press *Davidson, S., De Filippi, P., & Potts, J. (2018). Blockchains and the economic institutions of capitalism. ''Journal of Institutional Economics'', ''14''(4), 639–658. *De Filippi, P. & Loveluck, B. (2016). The invisible politics of Bitcoin: governance crisis of a decentralized infrastructure. ''Internet Policy Review'', Vol. 5, Issue 4. *De Filippi, P. & Hassan, S. (2016). Blockchain Technology as a Regulatory Technology: From Code is Law to Law is Code. ''First Monday'', Vol. 21, Number 12. *De Filippi, P., (2016). The interplay between decentralization and privacy: the case of blockchain technologies, ''Journal of Peer Production'', Issue n.7 *De Filippi, P. (2014). Bitcoin: a regulatory nightmare to a libertarian dream. ''Internet Policy Review'', 3(2).

References

External links

Bio in Harvard's Berkman Klein Center
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Artistic portfolio
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