Mike Godwin
Sign in to saveAlso known as Michael Wayne Godwin, Michael W. Godwin, Mike W. Godwin, Michael Godwin
American attorney and author
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1956
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Internet law
- Cyber rights
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Origin
- New York
Discography
- Only You2001
- So in Love2009
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 87
- Total plays
- 147
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement
· 2015 · cited 21,088x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
- The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration
· 2009 · cited 12,548x
- Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone
· 2017 · cited 12,448x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Michael Wayne Godwin , Houston , Texas, U.S.
- Education
- University of Texas, Austin ( BA , JD )
- Known for
- Godwin's law
via Wikipedia infobox
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Michael Wayne Godwin is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme. From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. In March 2011, he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board. Godwin has been a contributing editor of Reason magazine since 1994. In April 2019, he was elected to the Internet Society board. From 2015 to 2020, he was general counsel and director of innovation policy at the R Street Institute. In August 2020, he and the Blackstone Law Group filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of the employees of TikTok, where he went on to work from June 2021 until June 2022. Since October 2022, he has worked as the policy and privacy lead at Anonym, a "privacy-safe advertising" startup.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mike Godwin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.