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Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, serves pro bono as General Counsel for Free Software Foundation, and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.
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 Public Patent Foundation.
In 2003 he received the EFF Pioneer Award.
In February 2005, he founded the Software Freedom Law Center.
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 humans minds of the planet. Hence Moglen's phrase "Resist the resistance!".
Quotes
- The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
Publications
External links
- Eben Moglen's webpage at Columbia University (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/)
- LinuxWorld interview (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/39206.htm?DE=1) - January 19, 2004
- "Free Software, Free Hardware, Free Bandwidth", interview (http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992006691/1078412091) December 11 2003
- "Ask Slashdot" interview (http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/02/20/1544245.shtml) February 2003
- "The Encryption Wars", interview (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_1.php) Winter 2000 and Page 2 (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_2.php) (The title is just one of many topics discussed)
- Rewriting GPL No Easy Task (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1758752,00.asp), February 2 2005 interview. Page 2 (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1758753,00.asp)
Video and Audio Downloads
- A panel discussion including Moglen from the Public Domain Conference at Duke Law School (http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/mpegcast.html), in 2001, MPEG video
- Freedom and the Future of the Net: Why We Win (http://punkcast.com/156/moglen1_24k.mp3). A talk at New York University, May 14 2002, 1h 15m, 13.5Mb
- a talk including a rebuttal of claims by SCO Group (http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/images/jolt-moglen.spx). 1h 25m, 9Mb Speex format.
- Talk to TriLUG and NC*SA (http://courses.durhamtech.edu/~jeremy/moglen/eben_moglen.ogg) on November 12, 2001, at NCSSM. 1h 54m, 21Mb
- A panel discussion in which Moglen took part (http://radio.eff.org/radio_shows/DMCA&u.mp3). 1h 07:26, 65Mb. Moglen's two main contributions are at 15:18 and 31:39 in.
- Lecture at The Faculty of Law (http://radio.ljudmila.org/~radio/oddaje/novo0405/21122004-Moglen.mp3) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 21 2004, 1h 7m, 61Mib
- Lecture at Multimedia institute - MAMA/CARNet (http://mod.carnet.hr/hr/carnet/drustvo_znanja/eben_moglen.wmv) in Zagreb, Croatia, December 14 2004, 1h 35m, 286Mib
- Opening keynote (http://ia200017.eu.archive.org/hdd1/movies/3_do_t1_11h_3-Moglen/3_do_t1_11h_3-Moglen_305kb.mp4) at Wizards of OS3, Berlin, June 10 2004, 57m, 127Mib MPEG video
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