Eric Eldred
Photo: Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan; cropped by Padraic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons8

Eric Eldred

American activist

Eric Eldred (born 1943) is an American literacy advocate and the proprietor of the unincorporated Eldritch Press. Eldred was lead plaintiff in Eldred v.2

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Born 1943.1

About

Ashcroft, a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act but lost in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 with the lawyer Lawrence Lessig. He co-founded Creative Commons and served on its board of directors.

Eric Eldred has been described as a former computer programmer and systems administrator, a Boston writer, and a New Hampshire-based technical analyst. He is an independent scholar and first published online all of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, as well as scanning many works for Project Gutenberg and others.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eric Eldred, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedHarvard Extension School3
  • Date not recordedHarvard University3

Career

Occupation: publisher.5

Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States6