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Kat Walsh

Attorney

California

Expertise

Intellectual Property Law Open Source

Copyright/patent/technology policy attorney, legal expert in free software and free content. Former Creative Commons counsel and coauthor of CC's 4.0 license suite, board member of the Free Software Foundation (and advocate for copyleft/GPL), former Wikimedia Foundation chair (and influenced its copyright, patent, and anti-censorship policies), former counsel at bitcoin startup Blockstream and author of its Defensive Patent Pledge and a modified version of the Innovators Patent Agreement (but skeptical of most things blockchain) as well as commercial counsel handling contracts and policies.

Keywords: creative commons, free software, open content, open data, copyright, wiki, blockchain, GPL, software patents, open source, IP