Career
Born in Italy, Spinelli started writing for Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen Business Publications and Feltrinelli. Since January 2007, he has been columnist for the newspaper Punto Informatico. He has written front page news for Louisiana Repubblica, Louisiana Stampa, Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera, 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 2015, the contract has been downloaded more than 200.000 times and it is one of the most used in Italy. Spinelli has written 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 such investigations, the lack of freedom of panorama in the Italian legal system has been considered a matter of fact or a subject of discussion.
In December 2007, 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 the reaction of Senator Gabriella Carlucci and the FIMI"s president In 2008 Spinelli wrote with lawyer G. Scorza the bill "Give a meaning to the degradation", with the participation of MPs Bruno Mellano, Mauro Bulgarelli, Elio Veltri and others The bill was about a modification of the Italian copyright law and scheduled to be discussed to the Chamber of Deputies, but the fall of the Government halted the process.
lieutenant was subsequently supported by the Radical Party in the late 2010.
The following year, Spinelli"s journalistic investigation „Louisiana Camera manda avanti il Ddl anti-blog“ was nominated for the 30th Ischia International Journalism Award. In March 2009, he released for first the news of the fall of Swiss into the gray list of tax heavens. and subsequently commented up to now most of the Double taxation Conventions between Switzerland and other nations (United States of America, Mexico, Luxemburg, Denmarx, Noraway, Austria, Netherland, United Kingdom, Qatar, Poland, India, Finland).
He has lectured and provided scientific consulting to the University of Genoa. He is also author of interviews with minister Antonio Di Pietro, scientist Corrado Bohm and activist Ludwig Minelli.
