Jan. 13th, 2013 Hugo Roy -- Résumé IP Law student and Free Software advocate. # Contact Information Hugo Roy Email: hugo at hugoroy.eu 152 rue de la Phone: +33608 741 341 Rianderie, Web: http://hugoroy.eu/ 59700, Marcq-en-Barœul FRANCE # Professional Objective I am currently preparing the bar exam. # Education * Master's degree in Intellectual Property Law Sciences Po Law School, Paris, http://master.sciences-po.fr/droit/en/node/28 - 2012-2013 (diploma expected) Copyright law, Patent law, Trademark law, The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, Thinking law of immaterial things, Economics of Intellectual Property, etc. - 2010-2012 I co-organised the Cyberlaw Project. Issues: Future of Copyright, Privacy and “the Cloud.” Keynote in April 2012 by Pr. Lawrence Lessig, Harvard. Work supervised by Pr. Michel Vivant. - 2010-2011 Master's degree 1st year. * Droit des obligations (French Contract & Tort Law), Pr. Christophe Jamin * Conflict of laws & cross-border litigation, Pr. Horatia Muir-Watt * French Corporate Law, Pr. Bruno Dondero * Economic Law of the EU, Pr. Streho & Dr. Baquero Cruz * Competition Law, Pr. Dany Cohen * etc. * Bachelor in political studies Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Paris 2007-2010 Sciences Po is a highly selective University with an academic focus that spans not only political studies but also human and social sciences, law and economics. * Baccalauréat (French primary education diploma) Economics and Social science, Summa Cum Laude June 2007 19/20 in Philosophy and Mathematics # Professional Experience * Project Lead (formerly Legal intern) TOSDR.org, UNHOSTED.org, Paris, Berlin Since June 2012 Worked on "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" an community project to “fix the biggest lie on the web”. It helps people understand the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies of websites, with a one-dimensional rating (class A, good, to class E, bad) from a user right perspective. Anyone can contribute to flag the main points out of each terms. * analysis of the legal issues found usually in terms of service (collection and use of personal data, copyright licenses, contractual clauses related to changes, waivers of rights, etc.) * creation of a data format to rank and compare specific clauses in terms of service * website design and code * community management, curated discussions * outreach and communication with the press (featured in Time.com, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's Sunday edition, etc.) Advocacy for the Unhosted.org movement. * Legal assistant and working group coordinator, Intership Hewlett-Packard IP, Open Source Competency Center, Paris August 2011 → February 2012 Analyses of Free Software / Open Source licenses, writing memos summarising obligations and evaluating required processes; Participation in Open Source Review Board processes of software projects within HP; Coordinator for the HP IP expertise group on Open Source, increasing HP's involvement in Free Software communities and legal fora; review of commercial contracts on software development. Work supervised by Didier Patry. * Assistant to the President, Internship Free Software Foundation Europe, Berlin, http://fsfe.org September 2009 → June 2010 FSFE is an non-profit and charitable organisation dedicated to Free Software. Since 2001, it creates general understanding and support for software freedom in politics, law and society-at-large. Policy work at the European and United Nations level. Policy analysis, preparing briefings for the President. Participation in FSFE’s delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, liaising with government delegations and non-governmental organisations. Independent, efficient and effective work in a dynamic, high- pressure environment. Support on both substance and logistics to FSFE’s Freedom Task Force, including the world’s largest network of legal experts on Free Software. Development and execution of PR campaigns. Blogging in English and French, public speaking, web design, translation work. Publications: * EIFv2: Tracking the loss of interoperability, with Karsten Gerloff, March 2010, FSFE, http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html * Free Software, Free Society: Of Democracy and Hacking, November 2009, blogs.fsfe.org, http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2009/11/08 (translated into French by Framablog) Achievements: * Organised successfully the Legal & Licensing Workshop in Amsterdam gathering legal experts in the fields of Free Software and more generally in the area of copyright, patents and trademarks. → www.fsfe.org/projects/ftf/legal-conference.en.html * Coordination of “Document Freedom Day” a global campaign raising awareness on Open Standards, with several local activities. → www.documentfreedom.org/2010/ * Participated in a global debate on Web Standards for videos and the issue of patents licenses (about WebM, Theora v. H264/AVC) Work supervised by Karsten Gerloff. # Voluntary Commitments * Legal Team Deputy Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe, http://fsfe.org/legal Since May 2012 FSFE Legal Team helps individuals, projects, businesses and government agencies find Free Software legal information, experts and support. We do this by providing compliance, best practice, procurement and governance resources in-house, in partnership with our associate organisations and through our extensive network of contacts. * Member of the General Assembly Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. March 2011 → March 2013 I was elected by the fellows of the FSFE to be the Fellowship rep- resentative at the General Assembly. I also coordinate FSFE activities in France. * Co-founder Digital Freedoms Association, Paris, http://libertesnumeriques.net September 2008 → September 2012 Officially recognised by Sciences Po, we raise awareness amongst students and unions on digital stakes, including software freedom, which we have been promoting within the university. We also developed relationships with the university, including the Medialab. Achievements: * Organised a seminar: "What is the Internet?" with Benjamin Bayart, telecommunications expert, president of French Data Network, http://www.fdn.fr * Organised an introduction to Free Software for students. * Secretary and Projects Coordinator, Association Nainwak, France, http://www.nainwak.org 2007 → December 2010 Nainwak is an association of free web games. I am the webmaster and I lead our “Going mobile” project. Achievements: * Coordinated 7 times our participation to the Paris video-games festival, http://www.festivaldujeuvideo.com/. * Administration and edition of the website # Languages * French: mother tongue * English: fluent * German: basic # References * Dominique Boullier - dominique.boullier at sciences-po.fr Professor, Scientific director of Sciences Po médialab. * Karsten Gerloff - gerloff at fsfe.org President, Free Software Foundation Europe Technology strategist, researcher, policy expert, leader of Europe's most active and well-respected Free Software organisation. Hugo Roy's direct supervisor during his internship with FSFE. * Matthias Kirschner - mk at fsfe.org German Coordinator and Community Coordinator, Free Software Foundation Europe Diploma in Politics and Management, interacting with politicians, civil servants, entrepreneurs, journalists, and software developers on Free Software issues. Worked with Hugo Roy on public awareness, European policy issues. Enjoyed discussing philosophical software issues with him. # Personal Data - Date of Birth: March 3rd 1990 - Nationality: French - Cultural interests: Frank Zappa, Edgard Varèse, Salvador Dalí, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka. http://hugoroy.eu/cv.en