Mitch Stoltz

Mitch Stoltz

Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Joined on February 10, 2017
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Mitch Stoltz is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mitch focuses on copyright, trademark, antitrust, telecommunications, and free speech. He has worked for years to fight the use of copyright as a tool for censorship, and to keep the Internet open for creativity and innovation from far and wide. His recent projects include formulating new approaches to antitrust and competition policy in Internet industries, litigation on the copyright status of mandatory safety codes, and cases on streaming video. Mitch also counsels clients on the use of open licenses for software and media.

Before joining EFF, Mitch was an associate at Constantine Cannon LLP in Washington DC. Long ago, in an Internet far far away, Mitch was a security engineer at Netscape Communications, where he worked to secure Web browsers against malware and coordinated the security research efforts of hackers on three continents. Mitch has a JD from Boston University School of Law and a BA in Public Policy Analysis and Computer Science from Pomona College.

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2020 - Nov 24 on ICANN Should Keep Content Regulation and Other Arbitrary Rules Out of Registry Contracts
2017 - Aug 01 on Nation Scale Internet Filtering -- Do's and Don'ts