Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino's Information Engineering School, where he leads, together with Prof. A.R. Meo, the Internet Media Group, he previously spent several years at Italy's National Research Council, two years as Visiting Scholar at the University of California, and two years in Dallas as Texas Instruments technical staff member and as adjunct professor at the University of Texas (2000) . Since 2005 he has been leading the Creative Commons Italy project, which he had co-founded in 2003, and in 2006 co-founded the NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society at the Politecnico di Torino. Juan Carlos De Martin was the coordinator of COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain (2007-2011). In October 2007 he has been appointed Dean of the Libraries of the Politecnico di Torino. Juan Carlos De Martin is Faculty Fellow 2011-12 at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Senior Visiting Researcher at Keio University. Juan Carlos De Martin also serves as member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani and of the Biennale Democrazia. He is a frequent op-ed contributor to "La Stampa", one of the Italian leading newspapers. He is also a IEEE member and author, or co-author, of over ninety international scientific publications.

Prof. Ricolfi, was born on 19.7.1952, received his degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin on 1974. Master of Laws, Yale Law School, 1975-1976. He currently is professor of Intellectual Property Law at Turin Law School, where he also teaches Business Law. He is Director of the LL M in Intellectual Property, organized by Turin Law School together with WIPO and ILO.