Harvard Law School – Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Name: Yochai Benkler
Institution: HLS
Title (HLS): Tenured Professor
Visibility:Public

Client/Interest

Role/Interest

Matter

Issue

Dates

U.S. Government: Federal Communications Commission.

Expert

Commissioned to prepare a review of international experiences in the first decade of broadband and planning for next generation connectivity as part of the National Broadband Plan. Work funded by the Ford and MacArthur Foundations.

Broadband policy.

June 2009-February 2010

President's Council of Science and Technology Advisors

Expert

Advised White House Spectrum Policy Report

12/11-07/12

Open Society Foundations

Board

US Programs Board Member

10/11-Ongoing

World Bank

Expert

Member of the Knowledge Advisory Commission

04/12-ongoing

Sunlight Foundation

Other

Government Transparency; Member of the Advisory Board

02/07-ongoing

Bradley Manning

Other

Organized academics letter protesting conditions of Bradley Manning's pre-trial detention.

03/11-03/11

Freedombox Foundation

Board

Creation of a user-owned cloud.

07/11-ongoing

The Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression

Other

Advisory Committee Member

Freedom of Speech; Freedom of the Press

11/11-Ongoing

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

Other

University patent policy and access to medicines; Faculty advisory board.

2007-ongling

MIT Media Lab

Expert

University unit intellectual property policy

Patents and copyright licensing by universities

02/2012-onging

Ford Foundation

Other

Received Ford Foundation Funding for projects on broadband, internet policy; innovation and patents policy; a general award as a "Ford Visionaries" recipient

2008-Ongoing

MacArthur Foundation

Other

Broadband policy review for the FCC's National Broadband Plan. Grant principle investigator.

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Public lectures at conferences; some compensated

I give public lectures; some are pro bono; for some I am paid a speaker's fee.

All the issues about which I write; in particular internet policy; broadband; spectrum; Internet democracy; Wikileaks; copyright policy; human cooperation; peer production. Talks include commercial organizations and associations, such as Club de Madrid; The Swedish Internet Society; The Marker (Israeli newspaper); ABN_AMRO; Avecina; Lean Software Systems Conference. I have not been paid speaking fees for any lectures, talks or similar activities by companies as to whose legal, regulatory, or policy interests my work speaks directly.

01/2011-Ongoing

Kaltura

Other

Advisory board member to video CMS startup and early-stage company.

Internet video delivery

2008-Ongoing