Primavera De Filippi is a French legal scholar, Internet activist and artist, whose work focuses on the blockchain, peer production communities and copyright law.

[2] In 2010,[6] she joined the Centre for Administrative Science Research (CERSA) at CNRS and Universite de Paris II,[6] working with Danièle Bourcier.

[7] In 2013, she became a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University), and during two years[8] she researched there the concept of "governance by design" and its relation with cloud computing and peer-to-peer technologies.

[21][22] Beyond her academic work, De Filippi has engaged in several activist and practitioner activities promoting the expansion of openness, democratic governance, peer-to-peer, or blockchain.

[24] Since 2011, she has been co-founder of the International Communia Association for the promotion and the preservation of the digital public domain,[25] and legal expert for Creative Commons France.