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Iliana Araka is a graduate of the Library and Information Science Department of the Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece and holds a MSc in Library and Information Science from the Archive and Library Science Department, Ionian University. She is an adjacent lecturer at the Library and Information Science Department of TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece and until recently she worked as a librarian at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the past she has worked at the library of the TEI of Thessaloniki.

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Konstantina G. Arkouli, born in Athens - Greece (1983), is an attorney-at-law, registered at the Athens Bar Association since 2008. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2006 and received a master degree in Civil Law from the same Faculty in 2010. During her postgraduate studies, she elaborated her postgraduate thesis entitled “The protection of personal data in electronic communications” (in Greek), which has been published by Nomiki Bibliothiki Publications (Athens, 2010).

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Kim Barker is a second year PhD student with the Department of Law & Criminology at Aberystwyth University, with a keen interest in intellectual property issues. The current research project is concerned with the area of Copyright and Online Games, focussing specifically on the areas of intellectual property and in-game property rights.

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Eleni Chrysopoulou is a first year PhD student at the Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia (The search and evidential value of digital evidence in the criminal proceedings). She holds a bachelor (BSc) and a master (MSc) degree from the Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia (2006 and 2008, respectively) and also a Diploma in Law (JD) from the Department of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (2010). Her research interests include computer forensics, cyberlaw and cybercrime.

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Born in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. He has a degree in Library and Information Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he graduated with the thesis "The publishing industry in Mexico meet the information and communication technology. " He has taught the subject in the Bachelor of Documental Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities of the Autonomous University of Mexico State and the College of Library Science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, has likewise worked as a librarian at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Mexico Academic Office) in the area of procurement, public services and technical processes from 2005 to 2008. He is currently the last semester of the Master of Library and Information Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and serves as Assistant Coordinator in the Graduate Program in Library and Information Studies at the same university from 2008.

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Ebenezer's previous academic background covered a number of business and legal aspects of the content industries. After attaining a first class thesis at the Bachelor's level which focused on copyright issues in the digital distribution of files, and an LLM (with Merit) from the University of Westminster, London in 2007, he became more interested in the interface between law and technology and the effects of new technological developments on the law, hence opted to engage in a detailed study within internet piracy.

Ebenezer is currently pursuing his PhD at Aberystwyth University in the UK, and his study broadly falls under technology, rights and the law, with the thesis examining the feasibility to contain peer-to-peer illegal file-sharing.

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Christina Garnara is a graduate of Public Administration (direction: Public Economic), Panteion University. She holds a Master on “Information Technologies in Digital Environment” Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University. She is a 1st year Phd candidate at the same University and she is currently working for the Ionian University.

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Katarzyna is a doctoral (Ph.D.) researcher at the European University Institute (Florence Italy). She is now working on her thesis Copyright in decline? Systems theory, autopoiesis of law and the crisis of copyright law in digital era under supervision of prof. Giovanni Sartor.

Kasia holds a master degree (LL.M.) in European and International Law from European University Institute, master degree (LL.M.) in Polish and International Law from Warsaw University, master degree in Applied Social Sciences from Warsaw University and master degree in International Relations from Warsaw University. In addition, Kasia studied British law at Centre for the Studies of English and European Law (University of Cambridge in cooperation with faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University), German law at Centre for the Studies of German Law (University of Bonn, University of Cologne in cooperation with faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University) and Russian law in School of Russian law (University of Petersburg in cooperation with University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw).

Before starting her Ph.D. programme she was working on diverse posts. The most important being the position of legal advisor at the Polish NGO: Stowarzyszenie Interwencji Prawnej (Association for the Legal Intervention), where she was representing refugees before the Polish courts and governmental institutions.

Kasia has a wide range of academic interests covering intellectual property law, human rights law, sociology of law, refugees' law, sociology of difference and cultural diversity. She also loves learning foreign languages and travelling.

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Evagelia Koutidou has graduated from the Department of Law Studies of the Democritus University of Thrace and from the School of Philology (Department of Classics) of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has obtained her Master’s degrees from Law School (Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law) of the Aristotle University and from the School of Humanities (Master in Education) of the Hellenic Open University. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Section of Sociology of Law of Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and works as a teacher in the upper secondary public education.

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Nikos Koutras is a graduate of political sciences and holds a Masters’ degree in the Archive and Library Science Department, Ionian University. He is a PhD candidate at the same University.

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Liia Laanes is a PhD student in Political Science, at the University of Helsinki. She holds a M.Soc.Sc. (2008) in Administration and Organisations from the University of Helsinki and a BA (2004) in Public Administration from the University of Tartu. Her PhD research focuses on the re-establishing of local government system in Estonia in the beginning of the 1990s.

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Elisa Makridou is a graduate of Information Science (Ionian University), holds a Master's degree (DEA/ University of Barcelona, Spain) and is a PhD candidate at the same University. Currently, she is an adjunct Lecturer at the LIS Department of the Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has worked as a repository manager in the Library of TEI. She has attended many seminars and conferences, as a speaker in some of them. Among her interests are: institutional repositories, open access, metadata and information retrieval, information architecture, information literacy and academic libraries.

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Evi Mesaikou is a qualified lawyer and a member of Thessaloniki Bar Association since 2008. In 2007, she did a LL.M. programme in Law and Technology at Tilburg University. At the same time, she did an internship at Philips Corporate Privacy Office in Eindhoven for 10 months. Following, she was a stagiaire in the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) for 5 months.

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Nikita Maria is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Informatics at the University of Macedonia. She graduated from the Applied Informatics Department of the University of Macedonia and received her master’s degree on Informatics and Management at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her PhD research concentrates on the implementation of privacy and data protection principles in applications supported by the RFID technology, focusing specifically to the privacy and security risks that arise through its use.

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Anna Olonoglou is a graduate of the Ionian University, Department of Archive and Library Science. She obtained her master’s degree on “Information Technologies in Digital Environments". She has published several papers in academic journals and has focused on research related to the publishing industry. She is currently working for the Ionian University.

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Born in Komotini, 1985. She is a graduate of the Department of Law of Democritus University of Thrace. She has completed the taught part of the two years master programme in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a specialization in Philosophy of Law and is currently in the process of writing her dissertation. She has attended various conferences about internet and information society and the law and participated in the Erasmus Intensive Programme, Legis II on Legal Aspects of Information Society, in Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, in 2009, with a final project on “Internet Governance”. She has published online, in “Information Law” web page, an article based on her undergraduate study entitled “The crime of fraud on the Internet” as well as an editing and interpretation project from english into greek concerning the first two chapters of Lawrence Lessig’ s book “Code, Version 2.0”. Her interests lie into law, legal theory, philosophy and the social and philosophical aspects of the internet. She currently works as an attorney-at-law in Komotini.

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Vagia Polyzoidou, born in Thessaloniki – Greece (1984), is an attorney-at-law, registered at the Thessaloniki Bar Association since 2007. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005 with a bachelor degree in law and received a master degree in Penal Law and Criminology from the same Faculty in 2008. She is a PhD candidate at the same University with a keen interest in the interaction of computers in law and in issues related to human trafficking.

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Ioannis Revolidis was born in Drama – Greece in 1986. He is an attorney at law, member of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki since 2010. He studied law at the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated in 2008. At the same year he became a postgraduate student at the same Faculty (sector of Civil, Civil procedural and Labour Law). He is currently preparing his master’s thesis on illegally obtained evidence in civil procedure. His interests include the effects of modern technology on traditional civil law.

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Veljko Smiljanić is a graduate and a current LLM student of the Faculty of Law of the Belgrade University, with a zealous interest in Internet and tech law in general, as well as intellectual property issues. During his studies, he participated in multiple student research projects, producing several papers; nowadays, he is vigorously trying to build an IT-law related career. Since graduation, has worked in the Serbian Ministry of Trade and Services’ Consumer Protection Department. Currently writing a masters’ thesis on copyleft

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EDUCATION

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL - Washington D.C
LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law, May 2010
• Courses: Copyright Law, Patent Law, Trademarks, Digital Copyright, Design Law, Entertainment Law, Multinational IP protection
• Activities: Student Intellectual Property Organization, Art and Cultural Heritage Association

THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS LAW SCHOOL - Athens Greece
Ptychion (Law Degree), August 2009
• Honors: Antonios Papadakis Scholarship of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Activities: European Law Student Association (ELSA), Student Association for International Affairs (SAFIA)

ATHENS LAW SCHOOL, CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT - Athens, Greece
Graphology Seminar on Scientific Examination of Suspect Documents, April 2008-May 2008

EXPERIENCE

Law Firm of George Loukeris, Athens, Greece
Legal intern, August 2010-now

The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), Athens, Greece
Telephone operator in the Damage-Control Sector, May 2007-May 2008
• Worked as a liaison between customers and technicians on a variety of technical issues, including telephone and Internet problems.

Law firm of Zafeiropoulos Michalis, Athens, Greece
Intern, September 2006-April 2007
• Performed legal research on civil and penal law cases.
• Attended pretrial conferences and contract settlement negotiations.

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Eleni Tzoulia was born in Athens, Greece on July 2, 1981. She graduated from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2003 with a bachelor degree in law. In 2006 she earned a master degree in European and Media law from the Ruprecht - Karls University of Heidelberg. In the same year she started a traineeship in the Secretariat General of the European Parliament in Brussels, while in 2007 she joined the office of the European Ombudsman in Strasbourg as a trainee legal officer. Since 2008 she has offered legal advice and litigated as a freelance legal practitioner in Greece, whilst at the same time offering her services as an external associate and research collaborator to the Technological Educational Institute of Crete and the National Center for Public Administration and Local Government.

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Working Experience
DELL Computers, Process Assurance Group Analyst, Project Manager
AN GARDA SIOCHANA (Irish National Police Forces)

Education and training
University College Dublin, Ireland, School of Law LL.M (Master of Law) in IP/IT Law
Vilnius University, Lithuania, Master Degree in Sciences (Law)

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Aikaterini Yiannoukakou was born in Thessaloniki in 1975, which is her current place of residence. She is an information professional graduated from Library and Information Systems Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki in 1997, whereas she concluded her postgraduate studies in University College London (UCL) in 2001 with the title of her postgraduate thesis being “Computer Generated Evidence”. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis baring the title “Electronic Government: legal issues and applications” as a PhD candidate of Applied Informatics Department, University of Macedonia.
Since 2003, she has been an adjunct lecturer to the Library and Information Systems Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, while she has worked to several academic libraries both in Greece and United Kingdom. At present she is working to General State Archives – Archives of Larissa District, a decentralised public service of Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning & Religious Affairs.
Her interests focus information dissemination and management, information technology, information technology law, library science, e-government, ICT in public administration, computer crime, computer forensics, computer law.