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Michelle Thorne’s Bio

I’m currently employed by Creative Commons International* as Project Manager, coordinating over fifty jurisdictions worldwide to localize and promote the Creative Commons licensing suite. I contribute to projects such as CC Case Studies, which document exemplary and innovative license usage.

I hold a B.A. in Critical Social Thought and German Studies from Mount Holyoke College, where I completed an honors thesis on authorship, originality, and American copyright law. I’ve also studied at the University of Leipzig.

Keen to fuse theory with praxis, I co-organize the Berlin salon series Openeverything Fokus and free-content scavenger hunt, Wikis Take Berlin.  Following my pledge to learn a language every decade, I’m attempting to pick up Arabic. Back in the day, I was a soccer fanatic and played on too many teams — some of whom competed regularly against each other! I’m “from” Heidelberg, Germany.

Apologies

If you were expecting to find the homepage of my Googlegänger, the more infamous Michelle Thorne, you’d be mistaken here. Alas, I am not a woman of her…um, *ahem*…caliber. But I am trying to beat her Google rankings.

I like lists…

Intellectual passions >> openeverything, rebooting copyright, access to knowledge, open standards, public domain protection, translation (and developing its free/open tools).

For fun >> I Work for the Internets, making nutellachinos, 1/2 marathon training, soccer/football/fussball, slam poetry, d(^_^)b East Asian style emoticons, couchsurfing.

Wanna get in touch?

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* Disclosure: All content on this blog does not reflect the opinions, thoughts, strategies or future intentions of my employer. These are solely my personal opinions. Based on Jon Phillips’ disclosure page, who in turn based his page on Lessig’s disclosure.

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