Herkko Hietanen

Herkko Hietanen has been the CC-Finland leader since 2004. He has worked with Creative Commons team in San Francisco and as a visiting scholar in UC Berkley School of Information.

Currently Hietanen teaches law and technology in Lappeenranta University of Technology and conducts p2p research at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. His publications include several academic papers and he has co-authored a book "Community Created Content, law business and policy" that has received excellent reviews from the open content community. Herkko is writing his PhD thesis on open content licensing which he hopes to finish early 2008.

Herkko is also a partner in Turre Legal law firm and has extensively worked with user created and open content projects. Herkko has counselled several media companies and productions in open content licensing recently helped to design the open content licensing and distribution strategy for the Star Wreck motion picture.