Luca Spinelli

Luca Spinelli is a Swiss investigative journalist, columnist and the founder of the legal open source project Oscon.

Born in Italy, Spinelli started his journalistic career writing for VNU Business Publications and Feltrinelli. Since the 2000s, he has been columnist for the newspaper Punto Informatico. He has written front page news for La Repubblica, La Stampa, Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera, Wired, Il Manifesto and others (paper or online version).

While still a university student, in 2004 he founded Oscon, a legal non-profit and open project that is committed to spreading a free standard contract and provides online legal advising. Up to 2017, the contract has been downloaded more than 220.000 times and it is one of the most used in the country.

Spinelli has conducted investigations witch gave rise to widespread debates. In July 2007, MPs Franco Grillini and Cinzia Dato appended one of Spinelli's investigations about copyright to a parliamentary inquiry towards vice-Prime Minister Francesco Rutelli, promoting a reform of the legislation on copyright. After this investigation, the lack of freedom of panorama in the Italian legal system has been considered a matter of fact and a subject of discussion. In the same year, Spinelli's reporting on a security bill promoted by the Government caused its correction during the Council of Ministers of Italy. In 2008, his investigation on the Government budget revealed the intention to establish public funding for record labels, causing debates with Senator Gabriella Carlucci and the FIMI's president.

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