Eben Moglen: The dotCommunist Manifesto: How Culture Became Property and What We’re Going to Do About It

Eben Moglen talks about culture and intellectual property.

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Bio:

Eben Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. He began working as a professional computer programmer in 1973, at the age of fourteen. Before and during law school, from 1979-1984, he was a designer and developer of advanced computer programming languages (VSAPL, APL2, Pascal) at IBM’s Santa Teresa Laboratory and Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

After law school he was a law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School–and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel-Aviv University and the University of Virginia–since 1987. From 1991-1994 he represented Philip R. Zimmerman, the author of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in connection with a potential criminal prosecution by the United States Government.

Since 1993 he has served without fee as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, and has represented numerous clients in the free software world. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.

Presented by ibiblio. Co-sponsored by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, and the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science.