Adelphi Charter - Authors of The Charter

Authors of The Charter

The Charter was prepared by an International Commission of experts from the arts, creative industries, human rights, law, economics, science, R&D, technology, the public sector and education.

Commission members at the time of publishing included;

• Professor James Boyle - William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke Law School, and Faculty Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University
• Lynne Brindley - Chief Executive, British Library
• Professor William Cornish - Former Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property University of Cambridge
• Carlos Correa - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics University of Buenos Aires;and South Centre Switzerland
• Darius Cuplinskas - Director, Information Programme Open Society Institute
• Carolyn Deere - Chair, Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Watch; and Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford and University College Oxford.
• Cory Doctorow - Staff Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and writer
• Peter Drahos - Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, and Head, RegNet, The Australian National University
• Bronac Ferran - Director, Interdisciplinary Arts Arts Council England
• Dr Michael Jubb - Director, UK Research Libraries Network
• Gilberto Gil - Minister of Culture, Brazil; and musician
• Professor Lawrence Lessig - Chair, Creative Commons; Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar Stanford Law School
• James Love - Executive Director, Consumer Project on Technology; and Co-Chair, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Committee on Intellectual Property
• Hector MacQueen - Professor of Private Law and Director, AHRB Research Centre on Intellectual Property and Technology Law University of Edinburgh
• Professor John Naughton - Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, Open University; Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University; and columnist, 'The Observer'
• Vandana Shiva - physicist, philosopher, environmental activist and writer.
• Sir John Sulston - Nobel Laureate; former Director, Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute
• Louise Sylvan - Deputy Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

The Director was John Howkins, and the Research Coordinator Dr Jaime Stapleton .