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Robin D. Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading cyber-liberties organization. She specializes in intellectual property policy and digital music legal issues and serves as Director of EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFÉ), which she launched in June of 1999 to explore the interaction of intellectual property and freedom of expression in a digitalworld. Ms. Gross frequently speaks and publishes on cyberspace legalissues such as digital copyright, the MP3 and DeCSS legal wars, and has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office on the dangers to freedom of expression presented by the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The editors of the legal newspaper, Daily Journal, selected Ms. Gross as one of California‚s „Top Ten Most Influential Attorneys in 2001‰ for her work to advance digital free expression. In 2001 she developed the EFF's Open Audio License that allows musicians to release music and other recordings that expressly permit public sharing in exchange for artist credit. A 1998 graduate of Santa Clara University‚s High Technology Law Program, Ms. Gross is licensed to practice law in California. During law school she co-founded Virtual Recordings (www.virtualrecordings.com) an electronic music Web site with her musician husband. A Michigan native, she graduated from Michigan State University‚s James Madison College in 1995 with degrees in political philosophy and international relations. She can be reached at robin@eff.org. |
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