Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, and serves pro bono as General Counsel for Free Software Foundation. He is noteworthy for co-writing the GNU licenses with Richard Stallman. The most famous of these licenses is the GNU General Public License.

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.

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

He received a PhD in history from Yale University in 1993.

Moglen serves as a director of Public Patent Foundation.

His opinion on free software is that it's a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and depending on technical devices. Only if controlling these devices is open to all via free software, power can be balanced 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!".

In 2003 he received the EFF Pioneer Award.

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

• Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture - June 29, 2003 (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html) PDF (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.pdf)
• The dotCommunist Manifesto - January 2003 (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html) PDF (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.pdf)
• Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright - August 1999 (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/anarchism.html) PDF (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/anarchism.pdf)

External links

• Eben Moglen's webpage at Columbia University (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/)
• LinuxWorld interview - January 19, 2004 (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/39206.htm?DE=1)
• "Free Software, Free Hardware, Free Bandwidth", interview 11th Dec 2003 (http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992006691/1078412091)
• "Ask Slashdot" interview - February 2003 (http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/02/20/1544245.shtml) Moglen responds to 10 submitted questions
• "The Encryption Wars", interview, Winter 2000 (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_1.php) and Page 2 (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_2.php) (The title is just one of many topics discussed)

Video and Audio Downloads

• http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/mpegcast.html MPEG video recordings of the Public Domain Conference at Duke Law School in 2001, in which Moglen took part in a panel discussion.
• http://radio.eff.org/radio_shows/eben.mp3 12:08 (4.9Mib) Audio version of Moglen's talk at the above event.
• http://punkcast.com/156/moglen1_24k.mp3 1h 15:22 (13Mib) "Freedom and the Future of the Net: Why We Win" talk at NYU - May 14 2002
• http://punkcast.com/156/moglen2_24k.mp3 49:13 (8.4Mib) Q&A session from after the above talk
• http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/images/jolt-moglen.spx 1h 25:25 (8.2Mib) Speex format of a talk including a rebuttal of SCO
• http://courses.durhamtech.edu/~jeremy/moglen/eben_moglen.ogg 1h 54:21 (21Mib) Talk to TriLUG and NC*SA on November 12, 2001, at NCSSM
• http://radio.eff.org/radio_shows/DMCA&u.mp3 1h 7:26 (62Mib) A panel discussion in which Moglen took part. Moglen's two main contributions are at 15:18 and 31:39.

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