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  • From: Eric Steuer <eric AT creativecommons.org>
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  • Subject: [cc-presslist] PRESS RELEASE: YouTube’s Glenn Otis Brown Returns to Creative Commons as Board Member
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:35:34 -0700

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YouTube’s Glenn Otis Brown Returns to Creative Commons as Board Member

San Francisco, CA, USA – July 24, 2009

Creative Commons, a global nonprofit focused on the growth and
preservation of openly shareable and reusable culture, science, and
education, officially announced today that Glenn Otis Brown has
rejoined the organization as a member of its board of directors. Brown
was CC’s executive director from 2002-2005 and is currently YouTube’s
music business development manager.

As one of the core members of the Creative Commons team in the
organization’s early days, Brown was instrumental in developing many
of CC’s earliest successes, including the first two versions of its
machine-readable copyright licenses, its international expansion, and
the remix-friendly Wired CD and accompanying Wired Magazine cover
story. Brown subsequently joined Google as a products counsel, where
he worked on projects including Google Image Search, Blogger, Google
Talk, the Google WiFi initiative, and Google Sitemaps. As the music
business development manager for YouTube, Brown works with major and
independent labels, publishers, and artists to build new business
opportunities around both official music videos and fan-made tributes.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to have Glenn join the board,” says
Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. “As Executive Director of the
organization in its early days, Glenn established many of the critical
ideas and relationships that CC is built upon today. That background,
combined with his experience in developing creative projects and
partnerships at YouTube, gives him particularly valuable insight into
the opportunities for Creative Commons in the worlds of business,
media, and culture at large.”

"It's great to be involved with Creative Commons again,” Brown says.
“It's both humbling and exciting to see how much the organization has
grown in influence and reach. Seven years ago, there was no easy way
for creative people to declare 'Some Rights Reserved,' to invite open
interaction with their work, while keeping their copyrights. Today,
Creative Commons is the go-to solution for safe, legal sharing for
folks as different as Ridley Scott, Wikipedia, MIT, or President
Obama's transition team."

Brown joins a board of directors that includes technologist Joi Ito,
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, cyberlaw and intellectual property
experts Lawrence Lessig, Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling,
and Eric Saltzman, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, MIT computer science
professor Hal Abelson, documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and
Public Knowledge founder Laurie Racine.

Glenn Otis Brown biography

Glenn Otis Brown is currently the music business development manager
at YouTube. Before that, he worked as a products counsel at Google,
where he worked on Google Image Search, Blogger, Google Talk, the
Google WiFi initiative, and Google Sitemaps, among many other
projects. Glenn was Executive Director of Creative Commons from summer
2002 through spring 2005. In 2003-2004, Glenn was a lecturer at
Stanford Law School, where he co-taught a class on copyright licensing
with Lawrence Lessig. He 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, among other cases. Glenn has
also worked stints at The Economist’s Washington D.C. bureau,
reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at
“Digital Age,” a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro,
where he was assistant producer for a season. Glenn graduated from the
University of Texas at Austin (B.A.) and Harvard Law School (JD).
Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman
Center for Internet and Society, where he organized the first Signal
or Noise conference and concert in cooperation with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He lives in San Francisco and plays in a band
called Magic Me.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional
copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain,
Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.

Contact

Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric AT creativecommons.org

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