Suzanna Farace Marazza

Suzanna Farace Marazza is a jurist and a collaborator at the CCdigitallaw of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)'s eLearning Lab. In this role, she works as a legal consultant, addressing legal challenges related to the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, ranging from copyright to data protection, especially within academia.

Meantime, Suzanna is pursuing a PhD entitled "Institutions de sauvegarde de la mémoire et droit d'auteur: défis posés par la numérisation et l'intelligence artificielle", supervised by Prof. Vincent Salvadé at the University of Neuchâtel.

She is a member of the Federal Media Commission.

As part of her work at the CCdigitallaw, which is a Competence Center in digital law for Swiss Higher Education Institutions, she conducts workshops and responds to inquiries in Italian, German, French and English concerning copyright, licensing and data protection. She collaborates with several institutions on projects aiming at implementing Open Access, by advising students, teachers and researchers on managing their rights when using works, publishing and negotiating with stakeholders. 

Certificates:

-       Advanced Course​ on Software Licensing Including Open Source, of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);

-       Advanced Course on Arbitration and Mediation under the WIPO Rules, of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);

-       Creative Commons Certificate for Open Culture/GLAM.

In the past, she worked for several years in the cantonal public administration and did internships in public, contract and criminal law fields in Canton Ticino and abroad.

She participates in the open culture community of Creative Commons on a voluntary basis.