Rufus Pollock
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Rufus Pollock in 2011
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| Born | 1980 (age 36–37) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Should We Give Every Cow Its Calf? Monopoly, Competition and Transaction Costs in the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity (2008) |
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Rufus Pollock (born 1980) is an economist and founder of Open Knowledge. He is a Shuttleworth Foundation alumnus, an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and President of Open Knowledge which he co-founded (as the Open Knowledge Foundation) in 2004 and served as a board director until 2013.
On 24 May 2004 Pollock founded in Cambridge, UK the Open Knowledge Foundation as a global non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data.
In 2007 and 2009 Pollock published two controversial papers regarding the optimal copyright term, where he proposed based on an economical model with empirically-estimable parameters an optimal duration of only 15 years, significantly shorter than any currently existing copyright term.
He has held the Mead Research Fellowship in economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
In 2009, he was credited by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee for starting the Raw Data Now meme.
In 2010 he was appointed as one of the four founding members of the UK Government's Public Sector Transparency Board.
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