Cindy Cohn

Cindy Cohn is an American attorney specializing in Internet law. She represented Daniel J. Bernstein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Bernstein v. United States, and in 1997 was recognized by California Lawyer Magazine as one of the Lawyers of the Year for this work. She currently serves as Legal Director and General Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 2006, Ms. Cohn was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. Ms. Cohn also serves on the Board of Directors of the nonprofits Human Rights Advocates and the Verified Voting Foundation.

She studied law at the University of Michigan. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa and the London School of Economics.

In addition to Bernstein, some of Ms. Cohn's significant cases include Hepting v. AT&T (class action against AT&T for collaborating with the National Security Agency program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications), In re Sony BMG Tech. litigation (class action against Sony BMG for placing dangerous digital rights management (DRM) on customers' computers), OPG v. Diebold (Diebold was held liable for sending out unfounded cease and desist notices to internet service providers (ISPs) in an effort to stop public discussion of the flaws in its electronic voting machines), and DVDCCA v. Bunner^[1] (representing Andrew Bunner against the DVD Copy Control Association defending his right to republish a computer program that he found republished elsewhere on the Internet).

References

1. ^ Electronic Frontier Foundation (Updated September, 2005). "DVD-CCA v. Bunner and DVD-CCA v. Pavlovich". Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://w2.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/. Retrieved 2009-07-07. 

External links

• Cindy Cohn's Bio on EFF Site
• Human Rights Advocates Home Page

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