Senior Staff Attorney, Intellectual Property, EFF

Fred von Lohmann is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property issues. In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and individuals in litigation against every major record label, movie studio, and television network (as well as several cable TV networks and music publishers) in the United States. In additon to litigation, he is involved in EFF's efforts to educate policy-makers regarding the proper balance between intellectual property protection and the public interest in fair use, free expression, and innovation.

Fred has been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California for three years running by the Daily Journal, a leading legal newspaper, and received a 2003 CLAY (California Lawyer of the Year) award from California Lawyer magazine. He was also named one of the 50 Agenda Setters for 2003 by UK publication Silicon.com. He has appeared on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, CNBC, ABC's Good Morning America, Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, C-SPAN, and TechTV's ScreenSavers and has been widely quoted in a variety of publications, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Billboard, US News & World Report, CNET News, Wired News, TIME magazine and a number of leading legal newspapers. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury News.

• Session: Licensing User-Generated Content

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