Glenn Otis Brown has been Executive Director of Creative Commons since Summer 2002. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. A lecturer at Stanford Law School, Brown teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.

Before his work with the Creative Commons, Brown clerked for the Honorable
Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he
worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal. He has worked at The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau, and at Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for a season.

Brown is a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa)
and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna). He was awarded a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards a career in public service. At
Harvard, he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.

For the MCN/MINERVA Town Hall Meeting, Brown will introduce the concepts behind the Creative Commons and its innovative approaches to the marketing and
distribution of intellectual works, in both the private and public spheres. With
his years of experience involved with the evolution of the Creative Commons,
Brown will be able to articulate the intent of the non-profit licensing model
and how it serves to expand the notion of intellectual property rights. He
will further elaborate on how the Creative Commons serves as an easy yet reliable
way to gain exposure and widespread distribution, and specify how this
licensing structure may be useful to academics and the academic
institution, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and artists.
 

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