Fred Beneson

While studying Philosophy and Computer Science, Fred co-founded the Free Culture @ NYU chapter of FreeCulture.org, an international student movement, of which he currently serves on the board. After graduating from NYU in 2005, he interned at Creative Commons in San Francisco and then moved back to NYC to stage the first-of-their-kind DRM protests, as well as organize several other related public events, all of which received national media attention. Since the summer of 2006 Benneson has been the Creative Commons Cultural Fellow and has worked with organizations, schools, and major art institutions in New York to help shape their copyright policies through the use of Creative Commons licenses. He regularly travels to speak on these topics and is currently working on CommitteeCaller, an activist social network based on VoIP for his thesis at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts