Fred von Lohmann is an American lawyer, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property matters. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF) is an international non-profit advocacy and legal organization based in the United States with the stated purpose of being dedicated Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names He has received the California Lawyer of the Year Award.
In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and individuals in a variety of copyright and trademark litigation. Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual He is also 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. Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders such as use for Before joining EFF, Fred was a visiting researcher with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and an associate with the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP. The University of California Berkeley School of Law, commonly referred to as Berkeley Law and Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University Morrison & Foerster LLP is a full-service and large Law firm. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, ABC's Good Morning America, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Fox News O'Reilly Factor and has been widely quoted in a variety of national publications. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner CNBC (an abbreviation for the " C onsumer N ews and B usiness C hannel" its official name until 1991 is a cable and Good Morning America ( GMA) is a morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network debuting on November For other uses see News Hour. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is an evening Television News program broadcast The O'Reilly Factor is an American Talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who discusses Fred has an A. B. from Stanford University and a J. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in D. from Stanford Law School. Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto California, United States, in Silicon Valley
External links
- EFF Biography
- A Brief Interview with EFF's Fred von Lohmann on YouTube, Copyright, Google, and More, John Battelle's Searchblog, 2006-10-10