Manuel Martínez Ribas Manuel Martinez Ribas is a lawyer at the id Law Partners. He has been a researcher on information systems for the IESE business school, member of the Board of Directors of the IT Consultancy firm “The Information Highway Group” and more recently, an advisor to the European Commission in relation to software patents legislation. He specialises in IPR and IT law. At national and international level, he has not only participated in various R+D projects, but also written and lectured extensively on all aspects of Intellectual Property and IT legislation. He is also a professor-lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalunia.

Prof. Dr. Miquel Peguera, Professor of Commercial Law and Internet Law at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (Barcelona, Spain). PhD in Law, University of Barcelona (2006) with a dissertation on the liability of Internet intermediaries. Visiting Scholar at the University of Columbia School of Law (2007-08). His research focuses on the legal aspects of the information society, and particularly on ISPs’ liability. His publications include “When the Cached Link is the Weakest Link: Search Engine Caches under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act”, 56 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 589 (2009); “The DMCA Safe Harbors and Their European Counterparts: A Comparative Analysis of Some Common Problems”, 32 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 481 (2009). He is the author of the book La exclusión de responsabilidad de los intermediarios en Internet, Ed. Comares, Granada (2007) and editor of the handbook Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías, Ed. UOC, Barcelona (2005). Prof. Peguera blogs on ISP liability at http://responsabilidadinternet.wordpress.com/ Before joining the academia, he worked as a lawyer in Barcelona.

Malcolm Bain specialises in information technology law and intellectual property. He has a wide experience representing clients on both sides of IT transactions, including several public administrations. Malcolm’s special focus is on the legal issues of open source software and content, including both developing and freeing software, establishing licensing strategies and IPR enforcement. Malcolm is member of the Free Software Chair of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, and lectures on the legal aspects of the open source software and ICTs at Masters level (Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Univ. de Lleida). He has participated in many conferences on these subjects, including the Barcelona IGC and the European Parliament in December 2009.