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Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, serves pro bono as General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation, and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.

Contents

1 Stances on free software
2 Professional biography
3 External links

3.1 Publications
3.2 General articles and interviews
3.3 GPLv3-related articles and interviews
3.4 Video, audio, and transcripts

Stances on free software

Moglen says that free software is a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and dependent upon technical devices. Only if controlling these devices is open to all via free software, can we balance power equally.

Moglen's Metaphorical Corollary to Faraday's Law is the idea that the Internet works like induction on the human minds of the planet. Hence Moglen's phrase "Resist the resistance!".

Professional biography

Moglen received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1980, where he won the Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism. In 1985, he received a master's degree in philosophy and a JD from Yale University.

He was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall (1986-87 term).

He received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1993.

He serves as a director of the Public Patent Foundation.

In 2003 he received the EFF Pioneer Award.

In February 2005, he founded the Software Freedom Law Center.

External links

[Eben Moglen's webpage at Columbia University]
[Freedom Now] — Moglen's rarely used blog

Publications

General articles and interviews

[Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright], article in First Monday, August 2 1999
[Microsoft's Fatal Error], article in The Nation, November 11, 1999
[Microsoft: Judgment Day], article in The Nation, April 24, 2000
[Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do], article in The Nation, June 26, 2000
[The Encryption Wars] ([Page 2]) interview in Cabinet, Winter 2000 (The title is just one of many topics discussed)
[Liberation Musicology], article in The Nation, February 22, 2001
[Professor Eben Moglen Replies], interview on Slashdot, February 2003
[SCO: Without Fear and Without Research], article in eWeek, November 24, 2003
[Free Software, Free Hardware, Free Bandwidth], interview on [World-Information.Org], December 11 2003
[Interview with Eben Moglen], LinuxWorld Magazine, January 19, 2004
[Eben Moglen on Microsoft's Caller ID Patent License], short interview on NewsForge, February 26, 2004
[Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote], article on LWN.net, April 24 2005.
[Meet the DotCommunist], article on Law.com, February 15 2006
[Free software’s white knight], interview on ZDNet, March 20, 2006
[Day 2 keynotes at the Red Hat Summit], article in NewsForge, mostly covering Moglen’s keynote, June 1, 2006

GPLv3-related articles and interviews

[Rewriting GPL No Easy Task], February 2 2005 interview. [Page 2]
[Defender of the GPL], January 19, 2006 ZDNet interview after the release of the first public draft.
[‘A lawyer who is also idealist - how refreshing’], March 30, 2006 interview in The Guardian.

Video, audio, and transcripts

[A panel discussion including Moglen] from the [Conference on Public Domain] at Duke University Law School, on November 10, 2001, 1 h 11 min (Moglen’s contribution is 58 min in.)
*[Video], 172 MiB, MPEG format.
*[Audio recording of Moglen’s talk at the above event.], 12 min, 5 MiB
[The dotCommunist Manifesto]: Video of talk at ibiblio in November, 2001
[Freedom and the Future of the Net: Why We Win]. A talk at New York University, May 14 2002, 1 h 15 min, 13 MiB
*[Q&A session from after the above talk]. 49 min, 8 MiB
[Free Software, Free Culture: After the dotCommunist Manifesto], Open Cultures: Free Flows of Information and the Politics of Commons, Vienna, Austria June 5, 2003, 21 min, 70 MiB, RealMedia 225 kbit/s quality
[IT Conversations - SCO v. IBM], Interview, recorded December 12, 2003, 37min
* [Audio], 8.6 MiB
* [Text version], 263 KiB
[A panel discussion in which Moglen took part]. 1 h 7 min, 62 MiB. Moglen’s two main contributions are at 15:15 and 31:35 in.
*[A transcript of Eben Moglen’s contributions to that DMCA panel]
[Speech] for Harvard [Journal of Law & Technology]. February 23, 2004, 1 h 25 min
* [Streamed Video], RealMedia 300 kbit/s quality, (187MiB)
* [Audio], 8 MiB Speex format.
* [Text version], 72 KiB
[Open Source as a Social Movement]: Talk at the [Open Source Conference], KMDI, University of Toronto, May 9, 2004
[Opening keynote] at Wizards of OS3, Berlin, June 10 2004, 57 min
*[Video], 20 MiB and 131 MiB MPEG videos
*[Audio], 64 kbit/s 26 MiB, 96 kbit/s 39 MiB MP3, and 88 kbit/s 36 MiB OGG Vorbis formats
* [Text version], 42 KiB HTML, also available in PDF and PostScript formats
[State of the Free Union], speech delivered at Swarthmore College on November 8, 2004
[Lecture at Multimedia institute - MAMA/CARNet] in Zagreb, Croatia, December 14 2004, 1 h 35 min, 286 MiB
[Lecture at The Faculty of Law] in Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 21 2004, 1 h 7 min, 61 MiB
[Beyond Free Software: Ultimate Legal Consequences of the Free Information Movement]. Lecture at Bocconi, Italy, November 14, 2005, 46 min, 12 MiB MP3
[Opening presentation] of the GNU GPLv3 first draft release conference. January 16, 2006, 2h, 200MiB Ogg Theora
*[Transcript of the presentation]
[The Hardware Wars and the future of free software], presentation at the 2006 Free Software Foundation Associate Member meeting. April 1, 2006, 1 h 30 min, 54 MiB Ogg Vorbis
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[Free Software and Free Media], talk to isoc-ny May 3, 2006.
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[Keynote] at Red Hat Summit 2006 in Nashville, June 1, 2006, 36 min
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[License/drm panel] at [HollandOpen] in which Moglen took part, June 15, 2006, 1 h, 189 MiB MPEG-4
[Keynote] at HollandOpen, about GPL3 process June 17, 2006, 35 min, 109 MiB MPEG-4
*[Q&A] for the above keynote June 17, 2006, 32 min, 97 MiB MPEG-4
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[The wording of the changes] Presentation at the [3rd International GPLv3 Conference], Barcelona, June 22, 2006, 1 h 29 min, 93 MiB Ogg Theora
* [A transcript of that GPLv3 talk]
* [An audio recording of that GPLv3 talk], 11 MiB Ogg Vorbis

[ edit] Key figures of FOSS history
Richard Stallman - Linus Torvalds - Tim O'Reilly - Eben Moglen - Eric S. Raymond - Bruce Perens - Theo de Raadt - Larry Wall - Alan Cox - Guido van Rossum - Andrew Tridgell

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