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.