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Name
  
Rufus Pollock

Doctoral advisor
  
David Newbery


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Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge

Thesis
  
Should We Give Every Cow Its Calf? Monopoly, Competition and Transaction Costs in the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity (2008)

Organizations founded
  
Open Knowledge, Open Rights Group

Similar People
  
David Newbery, Martin Keegan, Ben Laurie

Education
  
University of Cambridge

Meet rufus pollock founder of open knowledge


Rufus Pollock (born 1980) is an economist and founder of Open Knowledge. He is a Shuttleworth Foundation alumnus,, an Ashoka Fellow, an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and President of Open Knowledge which he co-founded (as the Open Knowledge Foundation) in 2004 and served as a board director until 2013. He continues to act as Board Secretary.

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On 24 May 2004 Pollock founded in Cambridge, UK the Open Knowledge Foundation as a global non-profit network that promotes and shares open knowledge including open data and open content - information that is openly and freely available.

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In 2007 and 2009 Pollock published two important papers regarding the optimal copyright term, where he proposed based on an economical model with empirically-estimable parameters an optimal duration of only 15 years, significantly shorter than any currently existing copyright term.

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He has held the Mead Research Fellowship in economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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In 2009, he was credited by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee for starting the Raw Data Now meme.

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In 2010 he was appointed as one of the four founding members of the UK Government's Public Sector Transparency Board.



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