People
Members of the Board
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.
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.
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 is also the 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, and monthly columnist at Trip Magazine.
Joichi Ito
Joi Ito, an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd.Ito serves on the board of several companies; he is the General Manager of International Operations of Technocrati, which offers an Internet search engine for finding information on weblogs; and is Chairman of the software company, Six Apart. In addition, he is on the board of Creative Commons, Socialtext, The Metabrainz Foundation and Technocrati Japan, and more recently, to the board of ICANN, the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. Ito serves on various Japanese central and local government committees and boards, offering advice on issues relating to IT, and computer privacy and security.
In 1997, Ito was named a member of the CyberElite by Time Magazine, and in 2000 was ranked as one of the ‘50 Stars of Asia’ by Business Week. In 2001, the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 ‘Global Leaders of Tomorrow’ for 2002. He is currently reading towards a Doctor of Business Administration degree at Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, in Japan, and is focusing his research on the sharing economy.
Tomislav Medak
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.
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. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
Neeru Paharia
Neeru is a fifth-year doctoral student at Harvard Business School where her research focuses on consumer behavior, decision making, identity, and moral psychology. Previously Neeru served as Assistant and Executive Director of Creative Commons where she founded ccmixter.org, a music remixing website, and helped build a new semantic search engine. She is also a co-founder of AcaWiki–a “Wikipedia for academic research”–and of Peer 2 Peer University. Neeru received a Master of Science in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelors in Economics from the University of California at Davis, spent a year in the Coro Fellowship Program, and was a PPIA fellow.
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia.org in 2001 with the philosophy: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” In the years since, he has devoted his life to that goal. In the process, he pioneered the collaborative Web 2.0 model. Wikipedia currently has over 2 million articles and is consistently in the top ten websites visited worldwide. In 2004, Wales founded Wikia.com to expand beyond Wikipedia to more general online communities and collaborative projects. In 2005 Wales was appointed as a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons. In 2006 he was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
Staff
Diane Cabell
Diane Cabell is Acting Executive Director, Corporate Counsel & Secretary. She is 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.
Tech Staff
Parker Phinney
Parker Phinney is an undergradue student at Dartmouth College. A Free Culture activist, he started by founding Chadwick Free Culture and moved on to found Dartmouth Free Culture, where he’s focused his efforts on advocating for Open Education Resources, Open Access, and Free/Open Source Software. He also helps manage the global organization’s web services. In the Summer of 2009 he interned at Creative Commons, and in the Winter of 2010 he interned at the Free Culture-friendly startup OpenHatch.
Legal Intern
Andrew Clearwater
Andrew Clearwater is a research assistant with the Cooperation research group at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His work is part of the industrial case studies looking at commons-based production and collaboration. Andrew is currently working towards an LLM in Global Law and Technology with a concentration in Intellectual Property. He is a recipient of the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law. Andrew is a past president of the Maine Association for Law and Innovation and was recently part of a working group that provided legal and economic research related to offshore wind development to the Maine Task Force on Wind Power.
