Gwen Hinze

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Gwen Hinze is the International Affairs Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-governmental organization with over 10,000 members worldwide, dedicated to the protection of consumers' rights and civil liberties in the digital world. EFF works to educate policy makers in various fora, including the World Intellectual Property Organization and international standards bodies, about the need for balanced intellectual property regimes that protect creators, preserve access to knowledge, foster technological innovation, and empower digital consumers. EFF has particular expertise in the technological protection measure provisions of the 1998 U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, having been counsel of record or amicus curiae in all the early major cases interpreting its scope. Ms. Hinze is one of the co-authors of EFF's report Unintended Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA, and has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office for consumer exemptions in the DMCA rule-making inquiry. Ms. Hinze is a lawyer specializing in international intellectual property and Internet regulation policy. She is a member of the State Bar of California in the United States, and a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia.