About

My work:

ipVA – IP Value Added
– I am an open source and copyright strategy consultant, research guru, blogger-in-residence, and general IP jack of all trades at an IP strategy and consulting firm. My official title is “Head of Research”.

opencontentlawyer – Home for my news and commentary on open content law. If you need someone to explain Creative Commons licences, open source, or open content/data, you now know who to call.

OpenDataCommons.org – I co-founded this project of the Open Knowledge Foundation and am the principal legal drafter behind our licenses. We provide plain language legal tools for open data.

Open Knowledge Foundation – I’m currently on the board of directors of the OKF, a UK-based non-profit promoting open knowledge, from sonnets to statistics and from genes to geodata.

Currently also blogging and writing at:

Tangible IP The group blog I started as part of my role at ipVA.

Laptop Legal Law practice management and Mac’s in law practice stream-of-consciousness blog.

Other things:

I’m the chair of the advisory council for the Open Definition, a project of the OKF.

I’m currently on the advisory board of EFF-Austin, after having been previously on the board of directors.

I’m sort of a list admin emeritus for the Open Rights Group – Law list, a closed discussion / help list for legal professionals to help out ORG.  I helped start the Law list during a brief internship with Danny O’Brien at the Electronic Frontier Foundation back in 2006.