Ronaldo Lemos

Director and General Coordinator of all programs at the Center for Technology and Society at the Funda��o Get�lio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro.

He is also Director of Creative Commons Brazil and serves as member on the Board of iCommons, the international Creative Commons project.

Dr. Lemos is a visiting professor at Oxford University (Michaelmans Term, 2005), and professor of law at FGV Law School, lecturing on intellectual property in the Continuing Education department. He earned his LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of S�o Paulo, and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

He is author of the book “Direito, Tecnologia e Cultura,” published by FGV Press, 2005. He is also one of the founders Overmundo, and serves as member of the Electronic Commerce Commission appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice.

 Pedro Paranagua

Professor of Law at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, where he teaches at the Graduate and Post-Graduate Schools. Prof. Paranagua coordinates FGV’s A2K (Access to Knowledge) Programme, serves as Project Leader at the Centre for Technology and Society of Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, and is Manager of the distance learning law courses at FGV-Online.

He is a lecturer in intellectual property at FGV’s post-graduate department in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Prof. Paranagua is a lecturer at the Masters degree at the Brazilian Industrial Property National Institute (INPI). He is also visiting professor at Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ); State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Candido Mendes University (UCAM), and at the Sao Paulo Bar Association´s Superior School of Advocacy (ESA-OAB/SP).

Prof. Paranagua earned his LL.M. (merit) in Intellectual Property at the University of London, Queen Mary, UK, with scholarships from the Alban Programme of the European Commission; from Queen Mary, University of London, and from the Institute of International Education (IIE) jointly with the Ford Foundation.

Prof. Paranagua also represents FGV School of Law in Rio de Janeiro at the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO, in Geneva, and is legal consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.

Prof. Paranaguá Research Associate at IQsensato, an independent, international not-for-profit development research and policy think tank.

He is mentor and former academic coordinator of the intellectual property specialisation course at FGV School of Law in Sao Paulo. Prior to joining academia, he led for one year an intellectual property study group at a Brazilian NGO, focusing on patents and access to medicines, having closely worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and eventually with the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Prior to that, he has worked for three years at the intellectual property law firm Gusmao e Labrunie, in Sao Paulo.

Prof. Paranagua has written "The Development Agenda for WIPO: another stillbirth? A battle between access to knowledge and enclosure” (2005) (LL.M. dissertation); the chapter “Software Livre como Alternativa de Desenvolvimento e de Negocio: em busca da soberania nacional” in Propriedade Intelectual: Estudos em homenagem a Professora Maristela Basso (Jurua/2005), and the chapter “Patenteabilidade de Metodos de Fazer Negocio Implementados por Software” in Aspectos Polemicos da Propriedade Intelectual (Lumen Juris/2004), besides various articles in periodicals, papers etc.. He has also been invited to speak in several conferences in Brazil and abroad.

Prof. Paranagua’s main focus of research is: intellectual property (IP) and sustainable development; the relationship between new technologies and IP; new business and licensing models, such as Creative Commons, GNU/GPL free software licenses; the influence of private-interest and public-interest NGOs on the IP policy-making; international IP policy-making within the WTO / TRIPs Agreement and UN’s WIPO; political history, justification and objectives of IP rights; IP and consumer rights; patents and access to medicines, and access to knowledge in general.

 Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza

Researcher in the A2K program and adjunct coordinator for the Center for Technology and Society at Funda��o Get�lio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Pereira de Souza is professor of law at FGV Law School and a lecturer in FGV’s continuing education and specialization departments. He also lectures in the graduate and post-graduate departments at Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, and at the Law School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is a member of the Copyright and Entertainment Law Commission of the Rio de Janeiro Bar Association (OAB-RJ), and earned his Masters in Law from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), where he is currently a LL.D. candidate. He is co-author of the books Coment�rios � Lei de Imprensa (Forense/2004), and C�digo Civil Interpretado Conforme a Constitui��o da Rep�blica (Renovar/2004).

 S�rgio Branco

Researcher for the A2K program and project leader at the Center for Technology and Society at the Funda��o Get�lio Vargas School of Law in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Branco holds a Masters in Law from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), and is a LL.D. candidate at the same University.

He is a specialist in intellectual property at Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio). He is also a former chief-attorney of the Brazilian National Institute of Information Technology - ITI, in Bras�lia, and former coordinator of analysis and development for the post-graduate department at FGV DIREITO RIO.

Mr. Branco is legal consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and has worked for more than five years at the law firm Barbosa, M�ssnich & Arag�o and holds a LL.B. from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ).

 Roberta Zaluski

Law intern for the A2K program. She is current a graduate law student at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).

Ms. Zaluski’s foreign experience includes a six-month Graduate Law course at Paris II (Assas Pantheon), France, in addition to another six-month experience in Boston, USA.

Paula Martini

Colaborator and co-editor of the A2K Programe. MBA in Culture Management at Candido Mendes University, and B.A. in Social Communications (journalism) at Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio). Has undertaken Media Practices and Social Knowledge & Perspectives at Middlesex University in London, UK. Has experience in communications aimed at cultural production.