Corynne McSherry
Corynne McSherry is the Legal Director at EFF, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her favorite cases involve defending online fair use, political expression, and the public domain. As a litigator, she has represented the Internet Archive, Professor Lawrence Lessig, Public.Resource.Org, the Yes Men, and a dancing baby, among others. She has been named one of California's Top Entertainment Lawyers, AmLaw's "Litigator of the Week" and Lawyer Monthly's Litigator of the Year. Her policy work focuses on copyright, generative AI, and best practices for online expression. She has testified before Congress about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230. Corynne comments regularly on digital rights issues and has been quoted in a variety of outlets, including Fox News, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone. Prior to joining EFF, Corynne was a litigator at Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Corynne has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Ph.D from the University of California at San Diego, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. In addition to her contributions to the EFF blog, her notable publications include Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001).