Jon Bing

Jon Bing has been a professor in Information Technology Law at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), University of Oslo since 1988. He is a candidate of law (1969), dr. juris (1982), Honorary Doctorate at University of Stockholm (1997) and University of Copenhagen (1998) and Visiting Professor at Kings College, University of London. He has been a consultant to numerous national and international organisations and is a member of The European Commision DG XIII's Legal Advisory Board (LAB). He has also been working with many national and nternational arts and cultural organisations and was the chairman of Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs for 8 years . His field of expertise includes intellectual property, media law, data protection and telecommunications law. He has also assisted in the development of legal information systems in Norway and other countries including Bulgaria, Portugal, Tanzania and the former Yugoslavia. Jon Bing is also an active fiction writer.

E-mail: jon.bing@bingco.no