- Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ...
- Joi 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.
- Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective.
- James Boyle
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons. He writes on intellectual property, cyberspace, and social and legal theory. In 2003 he won the World Technology Network Award for Law. He is also a board member of the Public Library of Science.
- Tom Evslin
Tom Evslin was co-founder (with wife Mary), Chairman, and CEO of ITXC Corp, the world's leading provider of wholesale VoIP. The company grew from startup in 1997 to one of the world's largest carriers of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. Previously, Tom was responsible for the conception, launch, and operation of AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service which popularized flat rate, all you can eat dialup access.
- Heather Ford
Heather Ford is a South African who has worked in the fields of internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the Executive Director of iCommons, a UK private charitable corporation. Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, …
- John Buckman
John Buckman is founder of Magnatune, a Berkeley, California-based record label he founded in 2003 and which is known for its commercial application of Creative Commons licensing and overtly artist-friendly business practices. Buckman's methods include forming non-exclusive agreements with musicians, sharing profits equally with them, and allowing them to retain full rights to their own music.
- Cory Doctorow
A former EFF staff member and recipient of EFF's 2007 Pioneer Award , Cory Doctorow is now an EFF fellow. In addition to being an award-winning author of both science fiction and nonfiction works, he is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing . His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; Little Brother ; and Eastern Standard Tribe . He enjoys googling for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.
- Peter Watts
Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist. His first novel "Starfish" (2000) introduced Lenie Clarke, a deep-ocean power-station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: "Maelstrom" (2001), "Behemoth: ß-Max" (2004) and "Behemoth: Seppuku" (2005). The last two volumes comprise one novel, published split into for commercial considerations.
- Matt Hanson
Matt Hanson, born (September 17, 1971) is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in digital art. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels, onedotzero, and book projects including The End of Celluloid. As creator of A Swarm of Angels he has become concerned with issues relating to Creative Commons, Free Culture, Open source culture, crowdsourcing, and File sharing
- Cezary Ostrowski
Cezary Ostrowski - born 30 September 1962 in Brzeg - Polish visual artist, electronica composer, sound designer and journalist. Creative Commons activist - initiator of the Creative Collective. One of the editors of ccMixter.org. In 1983 Ostrowski founded the legendary Polish avant-tronic music group Bexa Lala. Fascinated by The Residents, Pere Ubu and The Pop Group, …
- Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference.
- Vincent Maher
Vincent John Maher (born January 28, 1975) is the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online, in Johannesburg South Africa. After obtaining a B. Journ degree from Rhodes, Maher started his career in 1997 at VWV Interactive, the then leading South African web development company. He pioneered use of several technologies on the South African web, including early versions of Macromedia Flash (then Coolsplash). During his tenure at VWV, Maher was a co-founder of Slime.co.za, …
- Ian Hocking
Ian Michael Hocking is a British author who writes in the genres science fiction and techno-thriller. His debut novel, Déjà Vu, was published by The UKA Press in January 2005. The author released Déjà Vu as a free podcast under a creative commons licence between November 2005 and June 2006. Hocking's fiction often features explorations of identity and free will.
- Hal Abelson
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education.
- Ryan Junell
Born in Frankfurt, Germany during wartime, Junell moved with family to deep West Texas and lived between rural and urban environments throughout his youth. He matriculated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Plan 2 Honors Degree. Ryan currently splits time between New York and the Bay Area.
- Matthew Haughey
Matthew Haughey (born October 10 1972) is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is known as "mathowie".
- David Ball
David Ball is an American filmmaker. He is the screenwriter, director, and producer of the independent movie "Honey"-one of the first films to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
- Steve Eley
Steve Eley is an American speculative fiction author and podcaster. He edits and produces Escape Pod, a science fiction podcast, as well as producing Pseudopod, a horror podcast, both produced under a Creative Commons license by his company Escape Artists Inc. Eley lives in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1994-1995 Eley was one of a group of students who produced a manifesto about the Invisible Pink Unicorn on alt.atheism. Eley is usually credited as the primary author, …
- Tom Maddox
Tom Maddox is an American science fiction writer, known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement. His first novel was "Halo" (ISBN 0-312-85249-5), published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story "Snake Eyes" appeared in the 1986 collection "Mirrorshades", edited by Bruce Sterling. He is perhaps best-known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson; they wrote two episodes of the X-Files together, "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter".
- Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll is an Associate Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law. He is also one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons, a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. His scholarly work focuses on intellectual property law and the law of electronic commerce. Carroll also is an active advocate for open access to the peer-reviewed scholarly periodical literature.
- Derek R. Audette
Derek Raymond Joseph Audette (born June 16, 1971) is a Canadian artist, musician and poet. Audette was born in Hull, Quebec. He has lived most of his life in the Ottawa Valley region of eastern Ontario and the city of Ottawa. A musician, painter, film-maker and poet, in the 1990s he was a member of the bands Lexington Blues, Swamp Ash, and Wardenclyffe. During the same time he also acted as producer for a number of local Ottawa musicians.
- Emcee Lynx
Emcee Lynx is an anarchist hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area in California who has achieved significant popularity and name-recognition in the West Coast hip hop and underground hip hop scenes and among anarchists and other radicals around the world.
- Frank Duff
Frank Duff is a Canadian author. He has published a number of short stories and articles on various websites, notably kuro5hin.org where he is known as "transient0". He has also written one novella, "Lysergically Yours", published by Insurgent Productions under the "No Media Kings" imprint. Much, but not all, of Duff's work is science fiction or slipstream. Duff is notable for having released much of his work, including "Lysergically Yours", …
- Kimmo Lehtonen
Kimmo Lehtonen (born 1967) is a Finnish science fiction novelist. He was also a longtime chairman of the Helsinki Science Fiction Society, and still is an active member of the Helsinki fandom scene. He runs the most active science fiction oriented website in Finland, Babek Nabel.
- Peter Keane
Peter Keane is an American blues/folk musician, currently living in Austin, Texas and working as a librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. Bill Morrissey produced his second album, "Walkin' Around". As of 2005, his web page states that he is "semi-retired" as a musician, and he has made most of his recordings available under a Creative Commons license.
- Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago .
- Kris Krug
i am whatever you say i am
- Alex Roberts
Graphic designer, and CSS ninja, for.
- Joi Ito
Joi Ito , Neotny, Board member of Mozilla Firefox, Technorati and world-famous blogger, Japan
- Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source Software Engineer on content management, content delivery and system integration applications.- JBoss Committer at JBoss for projects dedicated to Portals;- Editor at HTML.it for open source blog oneOpenSource;- Reviewer at Packt Publishing for books about J2EE and Portals.Videogame tester, barcamper, Creative Commons supporter, jazz guitarist.
- Diane Cabell
Diane Cabell , Director, Clinical Program in Cyberlaw, Harvard University
- Mark Resch
Mark Resch is deeply interested in the mutual interaction of society, business, and technology. He is Chairman and co-founder of interactive system maker Onomy Labs, Inc. Resch was President and CEO of Commerce Net,
- Ben Adida
Ben Adida is Research Faculty at the Harvard Medical School and a Fellow at Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society . Ben studies cryptography applied to public policy problems, in particular in the fields of medical informatics, web security, voting, and rights/policy expression with the Semantic Web. Ben began building web applications in 1995, co-founded two open-source web technology startups, and is an experienced free software developer and community lead.
- Dan Zappone
I'm anti-entropic, radically-skeptic, and generally optimistic. I dislike stupidty - mine and others. I do not believe anything.
- Scott Converse
15 years in Silicon Valley and Hollywood doing software and media development and another 10 years in carrier class communication environments developing products and services give me insights into the full spectrum of how technology is used in real world consumer and business applications.
- Alan Ruttenberg
Alan Ruttenberg , software engineer
- Glenn Otis Brown
Brown, for example, who coined the phrase “some rights reserved” to describe Creative Commons’ middle-ground
- Dorota Smaggia
Digital media expert with 15+ years experience of content distribution via traditional and new media channels, worldwide. Managed companies successfully exploring new activity sectors, ahead of time: pay TV and music channels ; cable TV ; mobile and online content. Always ready to seize opportunities to innovate and win challenges with video and music content companies.
- Andrea Glorioso