Elisa Vittone graduated with honors at the Law University of Turin. Admitted to the Bar in 2007,
she is authorized to practice in higher courts.
She has also been focusing on Media and Entertainment law and practice over the last fifteen years.
She deals with drafting and negotiation of all the contracts required for the production of feature films
and TV programs, their distribution and broadcasting and she gives her advice with relation to the
financing and distribution strategies.
Films and documentaries to which she provided advisory services were selected at festivals such as
Berlin, Cannes, Venice, South by Southwest, Hot Docs, Annecy, IDFA.
She provides consultation for trade associations for updating the laws and implementing decrees
applicable to cinema, audio visuals and public entertainment.
In 2015 and 2016 she took part in the parliamentary consultations on law n° 220/2016 (the Italian
Law related to the audiovisual sector). In 2021 she was involved in the transposition in Italy of the
Directive on Copyright in a Digital Single Market n. 790/2019 and in the adoption of the subsequent
AGCOM Regulation.
In 2022, she co-authored with her colleague Sasha Dalia Manzo a contribution titled "Notes on the
transposition in Italy of the principle of appropriate and proportionate remuneration" published in
the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (JIPLP) of Oxford University Press; she co-
authored the chapters entitled "Evidence, Counterfeiting and Plagiarism of Intellectual Works" in the
volume 'Evidence and Protection in Copyright and Industrial Law', Giuffrè Editore, 2023.
She has been a panelist in several conferences regarding the audiovisual sector among which,
recently, "The adequate and proportionate remuneration for authors and performing artists. The
impact on audiovisual sector contracts", organized in 2022 in the framework of the fifth TFI Torino
Film Industry - Production Days; 'IP and audiovisual policy in Italy and Europe' as part of ' Media
Mutations 15 - The Matter of Intellectual Property: Studying the Economic, Political and Cultural
Nodes of the Contemporary Media Industries' held in 2024, at the University of Bologna.
Since 2016, she has been giving master classes on copyright and media law at the Holden School in
Turin. From 2013 to 2016 she was the Assistant Director at the International Master in Intellectual
Property organized by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and the University of Turin.
She has been participating as a tutor and expert in training programs dedicated to the media sector
such as "Forward - Trentino Producers Lab" and "Becoming Producer".
She is currently involved in the Research Project of Significant National Interest (PRIN) Copy-IT
carried on by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Bocconi University, University of Turin,
University of Udine with the following subject: 'Italian copyright after the most recent EU legislative
reforms: impact assessments, best practices and reform proposals to build a more efficient and fair
system'.
She is a member of the 'Amicus Curiae' Team of the Marques Association and of AIPPI, the
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, she participates in the AIPPI's
Italian group on copyright.
In June 2023, she was elected as a member of the Doc/it Board of Directors and holds the position of
Vice-President.