Elena Spiropoulou was born in Athens in 1976. She studied Law and International Relations and Strategic Studies. She practices Law as a free lancer and is specialized to the Internet Law and Intellectual Property Law. She is Legal Counselor of the Association of Hellenic Internet Users (www.eexi.gr) and she sits on the DART team (Digital Awareness and Response to Threats) of the Ministry of Finance. She translated to greek the GNU GPL and LGPL Licenses (v.2 και 3) and is in daily touch with her European colleagues of FSF regarding the matters of free software. She is also Editor in Chief to the weekly t.v. show "Digital Greece", which is broadcasted on thw national channel, ΕΤ1.