Research Associate

Carolina Rossini, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society - Harvard University

Ms. Rossini is a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, working for Prof. Yochai Benkler as the coordinator for the Industrial Cooperation Project.  This project builds on previous work on innovation and intellectual property (IP) policy, specifically dealing with the political economy of IP, knowledge governance and open licensing strategies for cooperation within industrial fields such as alternative energy and sustainability, biotechnology and educational materials. She also is a grantee of the Open Society Institute, coordinating a project on open educational resources in Brazil, through which she is building an international dialogue in policy for open educational resources, aiming the open licensing of resources paid with taxpayer money.

Ms. Rossini, a Brazilian attorney and scholar, previously worked as Coordinator of Legal Clinical Programmes at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law; as Lead of Projects at FGV’s Center for Technology and Society (CTS) where she worked in projects on Creative Commons and Open Business; and as an in-house counsel at the Telefonica Telecommunications and Internet Group in Brazil. She also has experience teaching IP and Internet law and has served the Ford Foundation as a consultant.

She holds degrees from the Boston University (LL.M. in Intellectual Property); Sao Paulo State University-UNESP, Brazil (Master in International Negotiations); University of Buenos Aires (Certificate in Industrial Property); Instituto de Empresa-IE, Madrid, Spain (MBA in E-Business); University of Sao Paulo-USP, Brazil (Bachelor in Law); and Diplo Foundation (Certificate in Internet Governance).

Ms. Rossini’s main research interests are in: IP policy, political economy of IP, public interest and A2K; Net Neutrality; peer production; the role of Universities in innovation process; and open licensing and cooperating theory. She has published various papers and articles and spoken at international conferences on these issues. To view details of her publications and additional biographical information go to: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg/Participant/carolina-rossini.