Nikos Volanis is a lawyer for the Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators (www.satpe.gr), responsible for the regulatory affairs regarding the national and European framework on electronic communications and information society services. Prior to this position he has worked as a legal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Law and ICT (www.icri.be), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he was responsible for the legal analysis on national and European ICT research projects in the areas of intellectual property, software protection, electronic communications and personal data protection. In this context he was responsible for the first European research attempt to tackle the legal implications of grid computing, and the use/combination of proprietary and open source licenses in the development of middleware and applications in grid environments. He has also published his research results on the legal impact of Digital Rights Management systems and virtual property in international journals and conferences.