Aaron Perzanowski![]() Microsoft Research Fellow (Berkeley Center for Law & Technology)
Focus: Information law, technology, and policy
EducationA.B., Kenyon College, 2001J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law, 2006 BiographyAaron Perzanowski is the Microsoft Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law. Perzanowski teaches courses on cyberlaw and on intellectual property for the information industries at the I School and the School of Law. Perzanowski's research broadly addresses the ways in which law and technology influence the production and exchange of information. His current work focuses on digital rights management and data interoperability. Recent publications include "The Magnificence of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident", 22 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 1157 (2007) (with Deirdre K. Mulligan) and "The Penumbral Public Domain: Constitutional Limits on Quasi-Copyright Legislation", 10 U. Pa. J. Const. L. (forthcoming 2008). Prior to joining BCLT, Perzanowski was an associate in the litigation group at Fenwick & West LLP, where his practice focused on the representation of technology companies in copyright and trademark litigation. Perzanowski's pro bono matters included the successful post-conviction representation of substitute teacher Julie Amero, litigating the ACLU's case challenging Verizon's participation in the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, and advising the Chilean Ministry of Education on an international survey of copyright limitations and exceptions. Perzanowski is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law. As a student intern in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, he co-authored several amicus briefs on behalf of intellectual property, Internet, and first amendment scholars. In addition, Perzanowski drafted and testified in support of an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act adopted by the Copyright Office in its 2006 anticircumvention rulemaking. How to Reach MeOffice: 307C Bancroft Research Center, 2440 Bancroft Way
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Aaron Perzanowski is the Microsoft Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law. Perzanowski teaches courses on cyberlaw and on intellectual property for the information industries at the I School and the School of Law. Perzanowski's research broadly addresses the ways in which law and technology influence the production and exchange of information. His current work focuses on digital rights management and data interoperability. Recent publications include "The Magnificence of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident", 22 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 1157 (2007) (with Deirdre K. Mulligan) and "The Penumbral Public Domain: Constitutional Limits on Quasi-Copyright Legislation", 10 U. Pa. J. Const. L. (forthcoming 2008).
Prior to joining BCLT, Perzanowski was an associate in the litigation group at Fenwick & West LLP, where his practice focused on the representation of technology companies in copyright and trademark litigation. Perzanowski's pro bono matters included the successful post-conviction representation of substitute teacher Julie Amero, litigating the ACLU's case challenging Verizon's participation in the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, and advising the Chilean Ministry of Education on an international survey of copyright limitations and exceptions.
Perzanowski is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law. As a student intern in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, he co-authored several amicus briefs on behalf of intellectual property, Internet, and first amendment scholars. In addition, Perzanowski drafted and testified in support of an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act adopted by the Copyright Office in its 2006 anticircumvention rulemaking.