| Alex
Alben
Alex Alben is a candidate for the U.S. Congress
from the 8th Congressional District of Washington
State. Alex has spent the past ten years working
as an officer for technology companies, RealNetworks
and Starwave Corporation. In his public policy
role, he has testified before Congress and the
Copyright Office on modernizing our Intellectual
Property Laws, privacy, e-commerce and other
topics. He has taught at Stanford and the U.W.
schools of law and writes frequently on issues
of concern to the software and media industries.
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Jonathan
Band
Mr. Band is a partner of the firm Morrison & Foerster,
and his practice includes intellectual property,
administrative and appellate litigation, Internet
regulation, and legislation. Mr. Band is the co-author
of Interfaces on Trial: Intellectual Property
and Interoperability in the Global Software Industry
(Westview Press 1995) and over 50 articles on
intellectual property and Internet topics. He
is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University
Law Center, and on the Editorial Board of The
Computer and Internet Lawyer. Mr. Band received
his B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in
1982 from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale
Law School in 1985. |
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James
Boyle
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor
of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for
the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School.
He is the editor of Critical Legal Studies,
special editor of Collected Papers on the Public
Domain, and author of Shamans, Software
and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information
Society. |
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| Hillary
Brill
Hillary Brill is counsel to Representative Rick
Boucher (VA). Formerly she was an associate
in the information technology, corporate, and
communications law practice groups of Covington
& Burling ,and she has taught as an adjunct
professor at Georgetown University Law Center. |
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Jim
Burger
James M. Burger specializes in intellectual property,
communications and government policy as a member
of the law firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson.
Mr. Burger previously served as a Senior Director
in Apple Computer's Law Department. In addition,
from 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information
Technology Industry Council's Proprietary Rights
Committee. |
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Shu
Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang is a media installation artist
and filmmaker who has created a number of large-scale
net installations that traverse actual and virtual
spaces, including Brandon (Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1998-1999) and Baby Play (NTT[ICC],
2001). Her recent work "Garlic=Rich Air" (Creative
Time NYC 2002, Venice Biennale 2003) deals with
alternative economy system and wireless commons.
Kingdom
of Piracy (2001-) is an online, open workspace
(co-curated with armin medosch and Yukiko Shikata)
that explores the free sharing of digital content
- often condemned as piracy - as the net's ultimate
art form. |
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Ian
Clarke
Ian Clarke is the creator of the the Freenet
project. He earned a degree in Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence at the University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, graduating with honors. |
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Julie
Cohen
Julie Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown
University Law Center. She teaches and writes
about intellectual property law and data privacy
law, with particular focus on computer software
and digital works and on the intersection of copyright,
privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace.
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Jenny
Cool
Jenny Cool is an artist, ethnographic filmmaker,
and an educational media producer. Her films have
appeared on PBS, and she has developed materials
for numerous online media providers. Currently,
she is at work on a documentary on copyright in
the age of digital reproduction. |
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Jon
Cruz
Jon Cruz is a professor of sociology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. His teaching research
interests include: culture; sociology of knowledge;
American racial history; and media. |
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Randall
Davis
Randall Davis is a professor of computer science
and electrical engineering at MIT, where his research
interests include artificial intelligence and
knowledge based systems. He has also been active
in intellectual property issues in software. In
1989 he served as expert to the court in Computer
Associates v. Altai, the case that produced the
abstraction, filtration, comparison test for software
copyright analysis. More recently he was the chairman
of the National Academy of Sciences study on intellectual
property rights and the emerging information infrastructure
entitled The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual
Property in the Information Age, published
by the National Academy Press in February, 2000. |
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Sarah
Deutsch
Sarah Deutsch is Vice President and Associate
General Counsel for Verizon Communications. Her
practice covers all global Internet policy issues,
including liability, privacy, intellectual property
policy and Internet jurisdiction. She currently
represents Verizon on a host of domestic and international
Internet issues ranging from digital rights management,
the Hague Convention, Council of Europe Cybercrime
Convention, Europe's E-Commerce and Copyright
Directives, ICANN, domain name issues, and all
U.S. Internet-related legislation. Ms. Deutsch
served as Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Delegation
to the World Intellectual Property Organization
1996 Conference on the WIPO Copyright Treaties.
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Ed
Felten
Edward Felten is an Associate Professor in the
Computer Science Department at Princeton University.
His research interests include Computer and communications
security, especially relating to consumer devices
and software, impact of the law on technology,
operating systems, Internet software, Security
of mechanisms for distributing executable content
over the Internet, interaction of security with
programming languages and operating systems, distributed
computing, parallel computing architecture and
software. |
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Alec French
Alec French is Minority Counsel to the House Judiciary
Committee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual
Property. Previously, Mr. French was Legislative
Counsel at the Interactive Digital Software Association
from October 1997 through February 2000 and was
an Associate with Federal Legislative Associates
representing several high-tech and copyright clients
from May 95 until October 97. |
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Laura
Gasaway
Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been Director of
the Law Library and Professor of Law at the University
of North Carolina since 1985. She teaches courses
in Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law in
the law school and Law Librarianship and Legal
Resources in the School of Information and Library
Science. |
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Mitchell
Glazier
Mitchell Glazier is Senior Vice President of Government
Relations and Legislative Counsel for the RIAA.
Prioir to joining the RIAA, Mr. Glazier served
as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts
and Intellectual Property of the House Judiciary
Committee. In that capacity, he served as the
chief adviser to the Subcommittee and was responsible
for drafting legislation, organizing legislative
and oversight hearings and markups, analyzing
and evaluating legislation referred to the Subcommittee,
preparing Subcommittee and full Committee reports,
and meeting with representatives of government
agencies, private industry associations, the creative
community and other interested groups and individuals
actively associated with legislation pending before
the Subcommittee. |
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David
L. Green
David Green was from 1996 to 2003 the founding
executive director of the National Initiative
for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).
Prior to directing NINCH, he was Director of Communications
at the New York Foundation for the Arts, where
he was instrumental in the development of Arts
Wire. David Green is currently a member
of the new International Advisory Council for
George
Eastman House, the International Museum of
Photography and Film, and an Advisory Committee
Member of the Cultural Commons Initiative of the
Washington-based Center for Arts and Culture.
He was a member of the steering committee for
the Art, Technology and Intellectual Property
project of Columbia University’s The American
Assembly in 2001-2002. |
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Mark
Hosler
Mark Hosler is an activist and a musician, and
he is a founding member of the appropriationist
group Negativland
and one of the authors of Fair Use by Negativland.
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Peter
Jaszi
Peter Jaszi is Professor of Law, specializing
in copyright, at American University's Washington
School of Law. Currently, he is working to create
a specialized program in intellectual property.
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Barry
Kernfeld
Barry Kernfeld is an independent jazz scholar
and musician. His books include: The New Grove
Dictionary of Jazz, What to Listen for
in Jazz, and Blackwell Guide to Recorded
Jazz. His current book project is Pop Song
Piracy: Bootleg Song Sheets, Fake Books, and America's
First Criminal Copyright Trials. |
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Jessica
Litman
Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State
Law School and author of Digital Copyright.
Among her most recent articles are Information
Privacy/Information Property and Breakfast with
Batman: The Public Interest in the Advertising
Age. |
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Carrie
McLaren
Carrie McLaren is editor and designer of Stay
Free!, a magazine of media and consumer
culture. Previously she was a producer and the
Director of Advertising at Matador Records. |
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| J.
Hillis Miller
J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Professor
of English and Comparative Literature at the
University of California, Irvine. He taught
previously at Johns Hopkins and Yale and is
past president of the Modern Language Association
of America. Selected publications include :
The Linguistic Moment, Versions
of Pygmalion, Hawthorne and History,
Ariadne's Thread, New Starts: Performative
Topographies in Literature and Criticism,
Others, Speech Acts in Literature,
Black Holes (with Manuel Asensi), Reading
Narrative, and Topographies. Miller's
numerous awards and honors include the Doctor
Honoris Causa of the University of Zaragoza
(1993), Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative
Literature Association for Illustration (1993),
Honorary Professor of Peking University (1994)
and Danforth Teaching Award (1995). |
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Nick
Montfort
Nick Montfort, an author, critic, and theorist
of new media works, is now studying for a Ph.D.
in computer and information science at the University
of Pennsylvania. He is author of Twisty Little
Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction,
coeditor of The New Media Reader, and coauthor
of 2002: A Palindrome Story. His electronic
literature work includes award-winning interactive
fiction and collaborative Web pieces. He holds
masters degrees from Boston University (where
he was co-winner of the American Academy of Poets
Prize) and the MIT Media Lab. He is a director
of the Electronic
Literature Organization. |
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Robert
Nideffer
Robert Nideffer is Associate Professor in the
Department of Studio Art at the University of
California, Irvine and is also appointed in Information
and Computer Science. He researches, teaches,
and publishes in the areas of virtual environments
and behavior, interface theory and design, technology
and culture, and contemporary social theory. |
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Rina
Pantalony
Rina Elster Pantalony is a senior policy analyst
responsible for intellectual property and other
policy issues at the Canadian
Heritage Information Network. She is a member
of the Law Society of Upper Canada and practiced
commercial and intellectual property law in Toronto.
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Mark
Poster
Mark Poster is Professor of History at University
of California, Irvine. His interests include:
European Intellectual and Cultural History; Critical
Theory; and Media Studies. His publications include
What's the Matter with the Internet?,
The Second Media Age, and The Mode
of Information. |
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Laurie
Racine
Laurie Racine is the President of the Center
for the Public Domain and Lear
Center at USC. Before joining the Center,
she was the Director of the Health Sector Management
Program at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke
University. She has spent many years as a consultant
concentrating in the arts, education, and health
care. |
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Mark
Rose
Mark Rose is a Professor in the English
Department at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1977.
From 1989 to 1994 he was Director of the system
wide University of California Humanities Research
Institute, located on the Irvine campus. He is
the author of many books on subjects ranging from
Shakespeare to Science Fiction as well as of Authors
and Owners: The Invention of Copyright, which
was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle
Award. He also frequently serves as a consultant
and expert in litigation involving allegations
of copyright infringement. His current interests
include both Shakespeare and the history and theory
of intellectual property. |
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Wendy
Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer is a staff attorney with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation and a fellow with the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
Law School. This past fall, I was an adjunct professor
at St. John's University School of Law, teaching
Internet Law. Prior to joining EFF, I practiced
intellectual property and technology litigation
at Kramer Levin. |
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Clifford
Siskin
Clifford Siskin is Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia University. His subject
is the interrelations of literary, social, and
technological change, with a particular emphasis
on print culture: both its historical formation
and its current remediation in the face of the
electronic and the digital. His books include
The Historicity of Romantic Discourse and
The Work of Writing: Literature and Social
Change in Britain 1700-1830. |
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Gigi
Sohn
Gigi Sohn is the President of Public
Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy organization
dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant
information commons. A former Executive Director
of the Media Access Project and Ford Foundation
Project Specialist, Ms. Sohn is also an Adjunct
Professor at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches
a course on federal regulation of the electronic
media, and a Senior Fellow at the University of
Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program.
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Francis
Steen
Francis Steen is Assistant Professor of Communication
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He edits "COGWEB,"
a research tool for exploring "the relevance
of human cognition to communication and the arts."
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Jennifer
Urban
Jennifer Urban is a fellow and lecturer at the
Samuelson
Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic
at Boalt Hall. Prior to that she was an attorney
at the Venture Law Group, where she studied and
negotiated commercial and intellectual property
transaction documents for new companies. Urban’s
interests include intellectual property law and
policy, clinical andragogy, and the effect of
technology on law and policy. |
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Siva
Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Culture and Communication at
New York University. He is the author of Copyrights
and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property
and How it Threatens Creativity and a forthcoming
book The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer
Networks are Transforming Politics, Culture, and
Information. |
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John Vaughn
John Vaughn is Executive Vice-President of the
Association
of American Universities (AAU), and has, on
their behalf, testified in Congress on the Technology,
Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH)
Act of 2001 (available
online). |
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Noah
Wardrip-Fruin
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is an e-literature writer and
scholar. His current nonfiction work includes
being the lead editor of The New Media Reader
(with Nick Montfort) and of First Person: New
Media as Story, Performance, and Game (with
Pat Harrigan). His current fiction work includes
The Impermanence Agent. Wardrip-Fruin is
now a founding faculty member of the University
of Baltimore's School of Information Arts and
Technologies (SIAT), as well as a Creative Writing
Fellow at Brown University. He also serves on
the Board of Directors of the Electronic
Literature Organization. |
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William
Warner
William Warner is Professor of English at UC/
Santa Barbara and Director of the Digital
Cultures Project. He has published books and
articles in two distinct areas: print media culture
of the 18th century, with special attention to
the rise of the novel to be the dominant form
of print entertainment, and 20th century electronic
media. He is currently at work on a new project,
provisionally entitled American Networks: from
the Boston Committee of Correspondence to the
Internet.
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