Michael W. Carroll
Encyclopedia
American University
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's Washington College of Law
Washington College of Law
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. Carroll is one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
, a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. He also is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Research Data and Information.
Carroll's scholarly work focuses on intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
law and the law of electronic commerce
Electronic commerce
Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...
. Carroll also is an active advocate for open access to the peer-reviewed
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
scholarly periodical literature. He has written and lectured on the subject, and he is the author of the SPARC
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. They currently have over 800 institutions in North America, Europe, Japan,...
Author's Addendum. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Security Law Brief.
Education
Professor Carroll received his A.B. from the University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center
Georgetown University Law Center
Georgetown University Law Center is the law school of Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C.. Established in 1870, the Law Center offers J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees in law...
. While in law school, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Criminal Law Review.
Early career
After law school Carroll worked as an associate attorney at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering for about a year. Subsequently Carroll clerked for US District Court Judge Joyce Hens GreenJoyce Hens Green
Judge Joyce Hens Green is a Senior United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia.-Childhood:Green was born in 1928 in New York City. Her father was a psychiatrist and her mother was a homemaker. She had one brother...
and D.C. Circuit Judge Judith W. Rogers. He returned to Wilmer to practice in the intellectual property and e-commerce areas.
Publications
Carroll's publications include:- Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright, (Peter Yu, ed., Praeger 2007).
- Fixing Fair Use, 85 N.C. L. Rev. 1087 (2007).
- Patent Injunctions and the Problem of Uniformity Cost, 13 Mich. Telecommun. & Tech. L. Rev. 421 (2007).
- Creative Commons and the New Intermediaries, Mich. St. L. Rev. (2006).
- The Movement for Open Access Law, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 741 (2006).
- One for All: The Problem of Uniformity Cost in Intellectual Property Law, 15 Am. U. L. Rev. 845 (2006).
- The Struggle for Music Copyright, 57 Fla. L. Rev. 907 (2005).
- Whose Music Is It Anyway?: How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form Of Property, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1405 (2004).
- A Primer on U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Applicable to Music Information Retrieval Systems, U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol'y (2003).
- Disruptive Technology and Common Law Lawmaking: A Brief Analysis of A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 9 Vill. Sports & Ent. L.J. 5 (2002).
- Garbage In: Emerging Media and Regulation of Unsolicited Commercial Solicitations, Berkeley Tech. L.J. 11.2 (1996).