Robin Gross

Robin Gross is founder and Executive Director of IP Justice, an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law and defends freedom of expression.

Robin Gross has represented the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) on the ICANN GNSO Policy Council since 2005, and she is a member of the Advisory Group to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Robin Gross also runs a boutique law firm Imagine Law in San Francisco that handles entertainment, intellectual property, and cyberspace legal issues of a transactional nature

In 2005, Robin Gross taught international copyright law at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she served on SCU's High Technology Legal Advisory Board from 2004-2006.

Robin Gross began her legal career as the first intellectual property (IP) attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1999.

She launched EFF's work on intellectual property issues and was the director of its Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression. She defended in court 2600 Magazine, Norwegian Jon Johansen, and other people that published the DeCSS code, challenging the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as unconstitutional. She led the legal team who eventually won in the California Supreme Court upholding the right of Web publishers to post DeCSS against bogus trade secret claims.

While at EFF, she defended Streamcast (maker of Morpheus P2P software) in a precedent setting case over the legality of P2P file-sharing software. In another DMCA case, she defended Princeton scientists' right to publish technical information describing the weaknesses in the recording industry's technology to control digital music. She successfully represented ReplayTV owners (including the founder of Craigslist) against Hollywood's claims that their use of digital VCRs was illegal.

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