Copyright activists

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986-2013)

American academic, political activist

Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner

American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer

Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub

Mark Cuban is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and co-owner of 2929 Entertainment. From 2012 to 2025, he was also one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.

American law professor and free software advocate

American attorney and author

Norwegian and Finnish activist and computer expert

American musician and producer (born 1977)

Swedish politician, member of the EP

American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson; also President of the MPAA (1921-2007)

former head of the Swedish Pirate Party

Swedish computer specialist, co-founder of The Pirate Bay

Dutch politician

Swedish MEP from the Pirate Party

American legal scholar

Beatallica is an American mash-up band that plays music made from combinations of songs of the Beatles and Metallica. A Beatallica song is typically a blend of a Beatles song and a Metallica song with a related title (e.g. "The Thing That Should Not Let It Be", combining The Beatles' "Let It Be" and Metallica's "The Thing That Should Not Be" or "And Justice for All My Loving" combining Metallica's "And Justice for All" and the Beatles' "All My Loving"), though sometimes just a Beatles song will be used as a basis with modified lyrics. The lyrics slip back and forth between the two songs, or oc

Latvian-Russian politician and military officer (1950–2025)

Swedish activist

American philosopher advocate of open access

movement dissenting the nature of current copyright law

Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author

American software programmer

group of Italian writers

artist and activist (born 1966)

Scottish legal academic

American activist

researcher, blogger, journalist, social entrepreneur, open source activist

Swedish author and politician

Spanish lawyer

Canadian author, journalist, broadcaster, musician and politician

Professor of Law

Brazilian academic

Spanish lawyer

American civil liberties attorney specializing in Internet law

Negativland is an American experimental music band that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills (aka "The Weatherman"), Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker (aka "Wobbly"). Negativland has released a number of albums ranging from pure sound collage to more musical expositions. These have mostly been released on their own label, Seeland Records. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they produced several recordings for SST Records, most notably Escape from Noise, Helter Stupid and U2. Negativland were sued by the band U2's re

professor of computer science and public affairs

Dutch lawyer, politician and jurist

American educator and copyright activist

American writer and lawyer (born 1946)

American lawyer

Bandista (also stylized as bANDİSTA) is a Turkish musical collective, formed in 2006 in Istanbul. The band is known for their diverse musical style, DIY ethic and leftist political stance.

American academic

Dutch politician

Indian sculptor (1922–2007)

French artist, lawyer and researcher