People
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Delia Browne
Delia Browne is National Copyright Director of Australian Schools and TAFEs where she manages the newly formed National Copyright Unit of Copyright Advisory Group (CAG) providing copyright advice and conducting negotiations with copyright collecting societies. Recently, she led the successful lobbying efforts that resulted in new education-specific exceptions, and a new flexible dealing exception to the Australian Copyright Act. Ms. Browne served as the Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia (1996 – 2002) where negotiated and drafted amendments to the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000, the A New Tax System (Integrity Measures) Act 2000, and the ATO Tax Ruling 2005/1 Carrying on business as a professional arts practitioner, the last of which is regarded as the international benchmark on the tax treatment of artists. Delia practiced IP law at Minter Ellison Lawyers and assisted in setting up an entertainment and intellectual property practice at Michell Sillar Attorneys in Sydney.
Delia taught industrial and intellectual property at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and is a member of the editorial boards of the Media Arts Law Review and New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal and wrote the Chapter on Moral Rights for Halsbury’s Laws of Australia. She is based at the Department of Education and Training New South Wales Sydney Australia.
Liam Curren
Liam is a Research Contracts Specialist at the University of Oxford negotiating contracts on behalf of the University science departments. With degrees in biochemistry and law, he most recently served as an academic researcher with the HeLEX Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford where his research included privacy, data protection law, governance of emerging technologies, ‘user-centric’ technologies, data sharing in genetics/genomics, and intellectual property law. Liam is also an experienced solicitor having practiced at leading IP firms in London and Oxford.
Dawn Field
Professor Field is the Head of the Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Group at the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Natural Environment Research Council where her group undertakes research in comparative microbial genomics and microbial diversity using bioinformatic approaches and next-generation sequencing technologies. She is a founder of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) and its open-access journal (SIGS). She is a founder of Minimum Information about a Biological or Biomedical Investigation initiative (MIBBI) and theEnvironment Ontology and an active member of a variety of other data standards and ontology efforts. She is also the Director of the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre (NEBC) and the newly established NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF-Oxford) bioinformatics node as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford eResearch Centre.
Paul Keller
Paul Keller is a senior project lead at Dutch think tank Kennisland heading the Digital Pioneers, Creative Commons Netherlands and P2P Fusion efforts. He also serves as Collecting Society Liaison for Creative Commons. From 2003 – 2007, Keller headed the Public Research Program of the Waag Society. Keller serves as a board member of the Waag Sarai Exchange Platform, a collaboration with Sarai: The New Media Initiative, in New Delhi. The program encourages the exchange of information and ideas on the topics of new media, knowledge production and culture between Europe and Asia.
Keller has acted as an editor for various conferences, such as ‘WE SEIZE!’ in Geneva in 2003 and the Creative Capital conference in Amsterdam in 2005. He obtained a masters degree in Comparative Political Science from the University of Amsterdam.
Ronaldo Lemos
Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Lemos is the head professor of Intellectual Property Law at FGV Law School and director of Creative Commons Brazil. He has an LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of three books, including Direito, Tecnologia e Cultura, published by FGV Press, 2005. He coordinates various projects, such as the Cultura Livre and Open Business Project, an international initiative taking place in Brazil, Nigeria, Chile, Mexico, South Africa and the UK. He is one of the founders of Overmundo, the largest Web initiative in Brazil. He is also a member of the Electronic Commerce Commission appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, curator of the TIM Festival, monthly columnist at Trip Magazine and commentator for MTV Brasil.
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Edward J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Professor Lessig is also a founder of Creative Commons and of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
Professor Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. He is the author of Remix (2008), Code (2004),The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He is on the board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, Change Congress, The American Academy, Berlin, Freedom House and iCommons.org, and the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He has served on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, Free Press, and Public Knowledge. He was a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard.
Tomislav Medak, Chairman 2011
Tomislav Medak is the joint project leader for Creative Commons Croatia. The licenses were ported through the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb, where Medak co-ordinates theory and research programs and publishing activities. The Multimedia Institute is a NGO established in 1999 and houses a media lab, provides support to other NGOs in the area, publishes newsletters and provides net services. It also opened a ‘net.culture’ centre called ‘Mama’, which provides cheap internet access and a meeting and presentation space for artists, social, political, organizational and technological experiments. Medak studied philosophy, literature and German at the philosophy faculty in Zagreb. He is interested in social, ‘biopolitical’ and media theory, especially how new technologies and new media affect social theory.
Cameron Neylon
Dr. Neylon is a Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Neutron Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Founding Editor in Chief of the journal, Open Source Research Computation. He is a member of the Biochemical Society, Open Knowledge Foundation Working Group on Open Science, SAGE Project Data Working Group. He also serves on the JISC Research Identifiers Task Group Climate Code Foundation Advisory Board, and the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme Advisory Board. His peer review activities include Academic Editor, PLoS ONE Peer Review Panel, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Peer Review Panel, the National Institute of Standards, National Center for Neutron Research (USA) Peer Review Panel, and Diamond Light Source (UK). He blogs at Science in the Open.
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Dr. Sansone is team leader of the Standards and Data Sharing Infrastructure, at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre and previously served as team coordinator at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge. Her interests lie in the area of standards, ontology and software development to assist data management and she has significant expertise in the area of standardization for the purpose of enabling reporting, sharing and meta-analysis of biological, biomedical and environmental studies. She is a founding and/or core member of several international grass-root standards initiatives including BioSharing, Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI), Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), OBO Foundry, ISMB Bio-Ontologies SIG, Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI) project, and Pistoia Alliance’s Vocabulary Service Initiative.
Susanna led the collaborative development of the Investigation/Study/Assay (ISA) and serves on the editorial boards of GigaScience Journal and Journal of Biomedical Semantics, among others.
John Wilbanks
John Wilbanks works on open content, open data, and open innovation systems. He is a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and a Research Fellow at Lybba. He’s worked at Harvard Law School, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the World Wide Web Consortium, the US House of Representatives, and Creative Commons, as well as starting a bioinformatics company. He sits on the Board of Directors for Sage Bionetworks, iCommons, and 1DegreeBio, and the Advisory Board for Boundless Learning. John holds a degree in philosophy from Tulane University and also studied modern letters at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne).
STAFF
Diane Cabell, Executive Director, is a Visiting Academic at Oxford University’s e-Research Centre and Internet Institute. She is also Corporate Counsel & Secretary of Creative Commons, former Assistant Director of the Berkman Center at Harvard, founder of the Clinical Program in Cyberlaw at Harvard Law School, and a WIPO domain dispute panelist.
Berton Phinney, Tech Wizard, is an undergraduate at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A trained visual artist, graphic designer, musician, and writer, Berton supports the free culture movement by distributing his creative works freely over the Internet. During the summer of 2011, he interned at both the Angel’s Gate Cultural Center and the Harbor View House gallery.
