Fred von Lohmann is an American

United States

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 lawyer practicing as a senior copyright counsel at Google.

Before joining Google in July 2010, Fred was a senior staff attorney

Lawyer

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 with the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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, specializing in intellectual property

Intellectual property

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 matters. In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and individuals in a variety of copyright

Copyright

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 and trademark

Trademark

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 litigation. He was also involved in EFF's efforts to educate policy-makers regarding the proper balance between intellectual property protection and the public interest in fair use

Fair use

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, free expression, and innovation.

Before joining EFF, Fred was a visiting researcher with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and an associate with the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP

Morrison & Foerster LLP

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. He has appeared on CNN

CNN

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, CNBC

CNBC

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, ABC's Good Morning America

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, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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, and Fox News O'Reilly Factor and has been widely quoted in a variety of national publications. Fred has received the California Lawyer of the Year Award, the American Library Association's 2010 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award and recognition as one of 2010's "25 Most Influential People in IP" by both The American Lawyer and Billboard magazines. Fred has an A.B. from Stanford University

Stanford University

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 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School

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External links

• Google+ Page
• A Brief Interview with EFF's Fred von Lohmann on YouTube, Copyright, Google, and More, John Battelle
  John Battelle
  John Linwood Battelle is a journalist as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing. He is a visiting professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and also maintains Searchblog, a weblog covering search, technology, and media.Battelle is one of the original...
  
  's Searchblog, 2006-10-10
• CNET News.com: Tech champion, watchdog heads to Google