• Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
• Professor of Duke Law School
• Board Member of Creative Commons
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center

James Boyle joined the Duke Law School faculty in 2000. He writes on intellectual property, internet regulation and legal theory. Professor Boyle is a board member of Creative Commons and a member of the academic advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and of Public Knowledge.

• Director of CTS, FGV, Brazil
• Project Lead of Creative Commons Brazil
• Chairman of iCommons

Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro, and the Project Lead of Creative Commons in Brazil.

• Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Ming-Chorng Hwang is an associate research fellow of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. He writes on History of Chinese Architecture and History of Ancient China. He oversaw the development of Union Catalogs of the National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan.

• Counsel for Science Commons

As Counsel for Science Commons, Thinh is responsible for advising on legal issues relating to Science Commons and for implementing its strategy and operations. Thinh joined Science Commons after working as licensing attorney, and then corporate counsel, for Business Objects, a maker of business intelligence and reporting software. He also worked as licensing attorney for Crystal Decisions, Inc., prior to its acquisition by Business Objects. Before that, he practiced as an associate in the Technology Transactions Group of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a Silicon Valley law firm, where his work focused mainly on licensing transactions involving strategic collaborations and joint ventures, particularly in life sciences. Thinh received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Harvard University in 1996 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999. He is admitted to practice in California.

• Director of the Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Kwang-tsao Shao is director of the Research Centor for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica. He writes on Fish Taxonomy, Marine Biology, Fisheries Biology, Ecology and Evolution.

• Associate Professor of Department of Information and Library Science, Tamkang University, Taiwan
• Project Lead of TaiwanBaseballWiki

Sinn-Cheng Lin is an associate professor of the Department of Information and Library Science, Tamkang University. He writes on Knowledge Engineering, Digital Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Information Network, and Automatic Control.

• Open Source Developer, Creative Commons

Jon Phillips is an open source developer, artist and scholar with 12+ years of experience building communities and working within computing culture. He is currently developing the open source project the Open Clip Art Library, works for Creative Commons and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute in the Design+Technology department.

• Technical Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan
• Taiwan's Father of Blog

Jedi Lin was an audiologist but now the technical lead of Creative Commons Taiwan. He is a Web designer and an accessibility professional, as well as an experienced document writer and translator. He translates and writes books/documents about GnuPG, Perl, FreeBSD, Blog, Web standards and Internet culture. In 2003, he was awarded with the "Best Software Localization Award" and the "Best Document Writing Award" from Software Liberty Association, Taiwan (SLAT). He spares no effort spreading blogosphere culture and has been known as "Taiwan's Father of Blog".

• J.S.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School

Jyh-An Lee received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School and LL.B./M.B.A. from National Taiwan University. Before studying in the United States, he was a practicing lawyer specializing in technology and business transactions. His research interests include intellectual property, information law, and communications law. He has published articles in Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Knowledge, Technology & Policy, and a number of leading law journals in Taiwan.

• Internet Artist

Shu Lea Cheang, a nomadic digital artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production. Her Net installation works were commissioned and permanently collected by Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley, 1995), NTT[ICC], Tokyo (Buy One Get One, 1997) and the Guggenheim Museum (Brandon, 1998-1999). Her long term projects include Locker Baby project of 3 parts (BabyPlay, BabyLove, BabyWork) (since 2001); public Wifi FreeNetWork projects with London based TAKE2030 (since 2003) and Kingdom of Piracy, an online workspace on digital commons (since 2001). Currently in development is LOVEME2030, a series of screen-based installation set in Metropolitan Europa.

In 2007, she is launching MobiOpera.mobi at Sundance Film Festival in January.

• Independent Music Producer

Mr. Yueh-hsin CHU is a renownable popular singer and producer in Taiwan, playing various genre of music, and is known as "Taiwan's Father of Hip-Hop." He has been an icon in Taiwan's music scene since his ground-breaking sampling-rich album Funny Rap (1994). Many found his satirical lyrics about the Taiwanese society hilarious while some found them shocking. He has led the band Jesus Rocks! since 2001. The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan" License.

• Independent Music Producer

Lim Giong is a musician, artist, DJ, composer, songwriter, music producer, music director and also an actor. He has been a leading figure in the Taiwanese techno music scene. He was recently awarded with a Golden Horse Film award on the best original movie music in 2006.

• Independent Music Producer

Monbaza , an electronic music DJ, also a music producer, recordist, digital music lecture and an artist, had performed on stages in many countries (including England, Netherlands, Japan, Portugal and Thailand). Monbaza had produced great amount of recording, lyrics, composition in the field of pop music. His works could be found in lots of famous singers' (e.g. Hui Chou (周蕙), Sandee Chen (陳珊妮), Digihai) albums and in many well-known exhibitions, such as International Orchid Exhibition, Sound of Silence music and film festival of National Palace Museum. Monbaza teaches (taught) "music and sound effects production" class in Institute of Applied Art of National Chiao Tung University, Graduate Institute of the Indigenous Arts of National Dong Hwa University, Digital Content Institute of Institutional Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs and many other renowned institutes.

• Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School

Jennifer Jenkins is director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, where she heads its "Arts Project" — a project analyzing the effects of intellectual property on cultural production. She is a co-author of Bound By Law, a "graphic novel" about the effects of copyright on documentary film, and of "Nuestra Hernandez," a fictional documentary addressing copyright and appropriation.

• International Coordinator, Creative Commons

Catharina Maracke studied law in Germany and graduated from the University of Kiel and the Hamburg Court of Appeal with the first and second state examination. While studying she obtained a scholarship from the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich to write her PhD thesis on the History of the German Copyright Act of 1965. During the legal preparatory service she worked for several German Courts, the German Patent Office and the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Toronto. After finishing her legal education, Catharina worked for the law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in their Munich office. Afterwards she spent three months at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo where she did research and taught design protection and copyright law.

• Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Project Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan

Tyng-Ruey Chuang is an associate research fellow and a deputy director at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. His research areas include functional programming, programming languages and systems, XML and Web technologies, and social implications of information technologies. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, and his BS degree in Computer Science from National Taiwan University. He leads the open geospatial information team at the institute, is the public lead of Creative Commons Taiwan, and participates in project OSSF ("OSSF Supports Software Freedom"). Both Creative Commons Taiwan and project OSSF have been supported by the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica since 2003.

• Research Assistant, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Core Committer, The OpenVanilla Project

Tian-Jian Jiang is a core developer of the GOING ("Natural Input Method"), one of the most well-known product for intelligent Chinese language input. He is also one of the core committers of OpenVanilla, one of the most active open source text input method frameworks and processing platforms. He has over ten years of programming experience, is familiar with the design of full-text search engines, natural language processing, computational linguistics, and community management. He keeps a watchful eye on various cultural and community issues. He is also the coordinator of Wikimania 2007 Hacking Days and Taiwan Hackathon 2007.