Deborah De Angelis

Deborah De Angelis is an attorney-at-law based in Rome, Italy. She is currently the representative and legal lead of the Italian Chapter in the Creative Commons Global Network since its constitution in 2018. Deborah is a legal expert in international copyright law, cultural heritage, entertainment law and new technologies. She also worked as a legal advisor on copyright law to the previous Italian Minister of Culture. Deborah carries out teaching and training activities, has organised numerous conferences and events in copyright and entertainment law, and authored several publications. Since 2004, she is a fellow of the NEXA Center for the Internet & Society. She is a member of the working group “Digital Cultural Heritage” ICOM ITALIA.

The Vitruvian Man: A Puzzling Case for the Public Domain

March 1, 2023
Relates to
Policy Recommendation #4
Last Friday, news broke of the order taken by the court of first instance of Venice on a precautionary judgement served by Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, a public museum under the Italian Ministry of Culture. At stake: a Ravensburger puzzle representing the famous 1490s drawing Vitruvian Man by Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci. The […]

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The Italian Implementation of the New EU Text and Data Mining Exceptions

December 14, 2022
Relates to
Policy Recommendation #9
The legislative decree implementing the CDSM Directive in Italy was adopted on November 8th, 2021, and published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on November 27th. It came into force on December 12th, 2021, amending the Italian Copyright Law (April 22nd 1941, n.633 – Legge sul diritto d’autore, referred to below as “LdA”). This blog post analyses […]

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Deborah De Angelis

Blog posts by Deborah De Angelis

The Vitruvian Man: A Puzzling Case for the Public Domain

The Italian Implementation of the New EU Text and Data Mining Exceptions