Geist, Michael - Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law. He serves on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Expert Advisory Board and maintains privacyinfo.ca, a leading privacy law resource. His work has been recognized with several important awards including the 2008 Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, the 2003 Public Leadership Award from Canarie for his contribution to the Internet in Canada, and the 2002 Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Award. Dr. Geist has served on the director and advisory boards of several Internet and IT law organizations
Klemens, Ben - Author of Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyrights, and Software (Brookings Institution Press, November 2005).
Lessig, Lawrence - Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.
Moglen, Eben - Eben Moglen is a professor of law at Columbia Law School, a founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, and the general counsel and a board member of the Free Software Foundation.
DoD uses open systems to leverage commercial products and practices in order to field superior warfighting capability more quickly and more affordably.
OSJTF Mission:
Champion the establishment of a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and ensure implementation by all DoD acquisition programs. Specifically, the OSJTF will:
Make MOSA an integral part of the acquisition process,
Provide expert assistance in applying MOSA,
Ensure application of MOSA by all acquisition programs, and
Collaborate with industry to ensure a viable open standards base.
Samuelson, Pamela - Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information and the School of Law. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Since 2002, she has also been an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam.
DACS Gold Practice Initiative
