John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Yochai Benkler is a Professor at Yale Law School and writes widely about communications policy, constitutional law and peer-to-peer production.
Stephen Berry is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago, and is Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.
David Bollier is Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, and author of Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge). Bollier is also Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communications Norman Lear Center and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation.
Caspar Bowden is Director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, a non-profit think-tank for UK and European Internet policy.
James Boyle is a Professor at Duke Law School and the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens; Law and the Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press).
Jeff Chester is Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), based in Washington, DC. Through research, advocacy, and public education, CDD works to ensure that the digital media serve the public interest. It is currently focusing on preserving the Internet’s open architecture in the new broadband environment, and on the establishment of a noncommercial, interactive online commons for the free exchange of ideas and information among citizens.
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. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Rosemary Coombe is Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto. Her work on law, culture and appropriation is central to a contemporary understanding of the commons in intellectual property. Her most recent book is The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law (Duke Press, 1998).
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at N.Y.U. School of Law. A former chemist, her research interests include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the relationship between science and law. She is currently a member of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences exploring the appropriate limits of intellectual property rights.
Rebecca S. Eisenberg is the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.
Anita R. Eisenstadt has served as Assistant General Counsel at the National Science Foundation since 1990. She has represented the Foundation on a wide range of issues related to intellectual property rights and database protection. Ms. Eisenstadt coordinates NSF responses to draft legislation and works closely with the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy on intellectual property issues.
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.
Jane B. Griffith is the Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Prior to joining NLM, she worked at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress for over 25 years, where she was a Specialist in Information Technology Policy and held several senior management positions. Ms. Griffith also served on special assignments as the Interim Director of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Computer Science and Telecommun-ications Board and as the Director of the Task Force on NRC Goals and Operations.
Robin Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading cyber-liberties organization. She specializes in intellectual property policy and digital music legal issues. She serves as Director of EFF’s Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAF), which she launched in June of 1999 to explore the intersection of intellectual property law and freedom of expression related to the use of digital technology.
Charlotte Hess is Director of Library Services and Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Common Pool Resources & Collective Action.
Mark Hosler is a member of the appropriationist group Negativland.
David Lange is Professor of Law at Duke Law School and a writer, producer, director and production coordinator in radio, television and motion pictures. Twenty years ago, his article Recognizing the Public Domain initiated contemporary legal study of the subject.
Lawrence Lessig is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and, most recently, of The Future of Ideas.
Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State Law School and author of Digital Copyright (Prometheus Books 2001). Among her most recent articles are Information Privacy/Information Property and Breakfast with Batman: The Public Interest in the Advertising Age.
Damian Loeb is an internationally recognized artist who uses a technique of appropriation prominently in his work. His most recent exhibition, at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City (March, 2001), was entitled “The Public Domain”.
Jamie Love has worked full time for the Center for Study of Responsive Law (CSRL), started by Ralph Nader in 1968, since 1990. He directs the Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) which is active in a number of issue areas, including intellectual property, telecommunications, privacy and electronic commerce, plus a variety of projects relating to antitrust enforcement and policy.
Steven Maurer is a California attorney specializing in intellectual property litigation who prepared a law and economics study of proposed database legislation for the National Research Council in 1998. Since then, he has specialized in studying scientific databases and how they interact with commercial incentives, and he recently completed a study of the EU’s database law for Industry Canada. He has also worked with scientists on practical efforts to build and commercialize advanced databases in physics and biology.
Eben Moglen is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. He is the author, among many other articles, of Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright.
David Nimmer is of Counsel to Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, and Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA. Currently the author of Nimmer on Copyright (10 vols., Matthew Bender), he also comments frequently on contemporary issues in copyright and intellectual property.
Harlan J. Onsrud is Professor of Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine and a research scientist with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). A scientist, engineer, and attorney, his research focuses on the analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital spatial databases and the assessment of the social impacts of spatial technologies. He chairs the U.S. National Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA).
Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington. Her book Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990), and her subsequent work on the subject, has had a dramatic effect on environmental policy.
David Post is Professor of Law at Temple University where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace, and a Senior Fellow at the Tech Center at George Mason University Law School. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Editor of ICANN Watch, the Cyberspace Law Institute, and Disputes Organization.
H. Jefferson Powell has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1987. He has served in both the federal and state governments, as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of North Carolina; he has briefed and argued cases in both federal and state courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.
Arti Rai is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She writes on patent law, biotechnology, health care regulation, and intellectual property in cyberspace.
Jerome Reichman is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. His latest writings stress the need for new liability rules to stimulate investment in small-scale innovation not susceptible to trade secret protection in order to cure market failure. He has been special advisor to the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the International Council for Science (ICSU) on the subject of legal protection for databases.
Carol Rose is Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Among her many articles is The Comedy of the Commons, a reexamination of Hardin’s famous Tragedy of the Commons to identify those cases in which common property regimes actually work better than exclusionary private property regimes.
Mark Rose is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright, one of the most distinguished histories of the development of ideas about copyright.
Marc Rotenberg is Director (and Founder) of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and one of the world’s leading authorities on privacy issues.
Jed Rubenfeld is Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work on privacy, affirmative action and constitutional interpretation has reshaped the debate in each of these fields. His book Freedom and Time: A Theory of Constitutional Self-Government was published by Yale University Press in March 2001.
Edward Samuels has been teaching copyright, contracts, commercial law, bankruptcy, and legal method at New York Law School for 25 years. During that time he has served on or chaired just about every type of committee within the imagination of law professors, including a short term as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He has written numerous articles on copyright and other legal topics.
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Law. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic.
Cary Sherman is Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America. Formerly a senior partner and head of the Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group of Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., he has devoted his professional career to copyright and related issues.
Seth Shulman has worked for over twenty years as a writer and editor specializing in issues in science, technology and the environment. From 1988 through 1991 he served as a correspondent for the British science journal Nature, and from 1993-1998 as a contributing writer and editor for Technology Review where he has, since January 2001, returned as a monthly columnist on innovation and intellectual property. His latest book is Owning the Future (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
Brian Cantwell Smith is the Kimberly Jenkins Professor of New Technologies and Society at Duke University. Before coming to Duke he was principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, and the first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Gigi Sohn is the President of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit organization that represents the public’s perspective on intellectual property and related matters. 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.
Jonathan Tasini has been President of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) since 1990. He is a labor and economics writer whose work has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines. He was the lead plaintiff in a recent Supreme Court case about freelance authors’ rights in online databases.
Jennifer Toomey is an activist, musician and the Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition. From 1990 to 1998, she co-ran Simple Machines, an independent record label. She is a member of the board of The Low Power Radio Coalition, performed in several bands including Tsunami, and has written extensively about music and Internet technology.
Paul Uhlir is Director of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs at The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., where he directs policy studies and related activities for the federal government.
William Van Alystyne is the William R. & Thomas S. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School and one of the pre-eminent First Amendment and constitutional law scholars in the United States. His professional writings have appeared during four decades in the principal law journals in the United States with frequent republication in foreign journal.
