is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University , serves Pro Bono as General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation , and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center .
Moglen says that Free Software is a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and dependent upon technical devices. Only if controlling these devices is open to all via free software, can we balance power equally.
''Moglen's Metaphorical Corollary to Faraday's Law '' is the idea that the Internet works like Induction on the human minds of the planet. Hence Moglen's phrase "Resist the resistance!".
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 .
He was a Law Clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall ( 1986 - 87 term).
He received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1993 .
He serves as a director of the Public Patent Foundation .
In 2003 he received the EFF Pioneer Award .
In February 2005 , he founded the Software Freedom Law Center .
- Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright , article in First Monday , August 2 1999
- Microsoft's Fatal Error , article in The Nation , November 11 , 1999
- Microsoft: Judgment Day , article in The Nation , April 24 , 2000
- Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do , article in The Nation , June 26 , 2000
- The Encryption Wars ( Page 2 ) interview in Cabinet , Winter 2000 (The title is just one of many topics discussed)
- Liberation Musicology , article in The Nation , February 22 , 2001
- [http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/02/20/1544245.shtml Professor Eben Moglen Replies], interview on Slashdot , February 2003
- SCO: Without Fear and Without Research , article in EWeek , November 24 , 2003
- Free Software, Free Hardware, Free Bandwidth , interview on World-Information.Org , December 11 2003
- Interview with Eben Moglen , LinuxWorld Magazine , January 19 , 2004
- Eben Moglen on Microsoft's Caller ID Patent License , short interview on NewsForge , February 26 , 2004
- Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote , article on LWN.net , April 24 2005 .
- Meet the DotCommunist , article on Law.com , February 15 2006
- Free software’s white knight , interview on ZDNet , March 20 , 2006
- A panel discussion including Moglen from the Conference on Public Domain at Duke University Law School , on November 10 , 2001 , 1 h 11 min (Moglen’s contribution is 58 min in.)
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- --- Audio recording of Moglen’s talk at the above event. , 12 min, 5 MiB
- The dotCommunist Manifesto : Video of talk at Ibiblio in November , 2001
- Freedom and the Future of the Net: Why We Win . A talk at New York University , May 14 2002 , 1 h 15 min, 13 MiB
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- Free Software, Free Culture: After the dotCommunist Manifesto , Open Cultures: Free Flows of Information and the Politics of Commons, Vienna , Austria June 5 , 2003 , 21 min, 70 MiB, RealMedia 225 kbit/s quality
- IT Conversations - SCO v. IBM , Interview, recorded December 12 , 2003 , 37min
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- A panel discussion in which Moglen took part . 1 h 7 min, 62 MiB. Moglen’s two main contributions are at 15:15 and 31:35 in.
- --- A transcript of Eben Moglen’s contributions to that DMCA panel
- Speech for , 2004 , 1 h 25 min
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- Open Source as a Social Movement : Talk at the Open Source Conference , KMDI, University Of Toronto , May 9 , 2004
- Opening keynote at Wizards Of OS3 , Berlin , June 10 2004 , 57 min
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- State of the Free Union , speech delivered at Swarthmore College on November 8 , 2004
- Lecture at Multimedia institute - MAMA/CARNet in Zagreb , Croatia , December 14 2004 , 1 h 35 min, 286 MiB
- Lecture at The Faculty of Law in Ljubljana , Slovenia , December 21 2004 , 1 h 7 min, 61 MiB
- Beyond Free Software: Ultimate Legal Consequences of the Free Information Movement . Lecture at Bocconi , Italy , November 14 , 2005 , 46 min, 12 MiB MP3
- Opening presentation of the GNU GPL v3 first draft release conference. January 16 , 2006 , 2h, 200MiB Ogg Theora
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- The Hardware Wars and the future of free software , presentation at the 2006 Free Software Foundation Associate Member meeting. April 1 , 2006 , 1 h 30 min, 54 MiB Ogg Vorbis
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