Michael Barclay specializes in the fields of patent, copyright, trade secret, and trademark litigation and client counseling, with a particular focus on electronics-related areas. He formerly was a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California. Among other cases, Michael worked on the successful First Circuit and Supreme Court appeals in Lotus v. Borland. Before entering the legal field, Michael was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft and at Intel Corporation. Michael received his J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1979, and A.B. (Physics) and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Since joining EFF in 2010, Michael has worked on amicus briefs in many important copyright and patent cases. Examples include: Oracle v. Google, Viacom v. YouTube, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, Brownmark Films v. Comedy Partners, UMG v. Veoh (Shelter Capital), and Authors Guild v. Google.
Marta Belcher is president and chair of the Filecoin Foundation as well as the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and general counsel and head of policy at Protocol Labs. Marta also serves on the Boards of the Zcash Foundation and the Blockchain Association, and is a member of Paradigm’s Policy Council. Marta is a pioneer in blockchain law and policy, and has testified in Congress and state legislatures as well as speaking in European Parliament.
Marta has submitted briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. appellate courts for high-profile public interest organizations, including EFF, the Center for Democracy & Technology, Public Knowledge, the Cato Institute, the National Consumers' League, Project Gutenberg, and the Blockchain Association. Marta has been recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer awards, by Law360’s list of Top Attorneys Under 40, by CryptoWeekly’s list of Most Influential Women in Crypto, and as Business Intelligence Group’s Woman of the Year.
Bennett is a former member of our public interest technology team. He works with a variety of teams across EFF, focusing on consumer privacy, competition, and state legislation.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the editor of Pluralistic and the author of young adult novels like LITTLE BROTHER and HOMELAND and novels for adults like ATTACK SURFACE and WALKAWAY, as well as nonfiction books like HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
Thomas E. Moore III has practiced law in Palo Alto continuously since 1984, representing individuals and start-up to mid-size technology companies in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. Tom is a member of Royse Law Firm, PC, which provides sophisticated, yet affordable, legal services to a variety of Silicon Valley clients. Tom has collaborated with EFF on a variety of projects beginning in January 2000 with the DVD Copy Control Association’s case against Andrew Bunner. Since then, he has defended the rights of on-line journalists, argued that famous trademarks do not hold a monopoly on ordinary English words and helped to explain how IP addresses can reveal important information about person’s movements and associations. Most recently, Tom has joined EFF in its efforts to curtail the government’s mass surveillance of the American public. He is a graduate of Stanford, and he received his law degree from U.C. Berkeley.
Kurt is an attorney with Ridder, Costa, and Johnstone, a boutique technology law firm. Kurt has worked for close to 30 years on technology law and policy, representing startups since the early days of the first dot-com boom. He helped shape the law on fair use, free expression, and online privacy and to establish and defend code as speech. Through impact litigation, amicus briefs, and policy work, Kurt helped develop precedent and policy on key laws including Section 230, the DMCA, ECPA, National Security Letters, and the CFAA. His work has helped establish best practices for online service providers and supported privacy-enhancing technologies, security researchers, open-source projects, and the decentralized web.
From 2004 to 2023, Kurt served at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, helping defend rights online. At EFF, he was also the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project, which defends coders and security researchers, and he continues to assist EFF as a volunteer Special Counsel. In 2007, Kurt was named one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work establishing the reporter's privilege for online journalists.
From 2023 to 2026, Kurt served as Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy, and subsequently General Counsel, of the Filecoin Foundation, supporting the decentralized web and blockchain technologies as they navigated regulatory and policy spaces.
Prior to his time at EFF, Kurt practiced at Perkins Coie, representing technology clients on intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including high-profile cases such as Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster, and CoStar v. LoopNet. While at Perkins Coie, he co-authored the Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook. Before Perkins Coie, Kurt was a research fellow for Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information. He earned his law degree from Berkeley Law, where he served on both the California Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
Kurt is a frequent speaker on technology law and policy, having presented at major industry conferences worldwide including DEF CON, the Chaos Communication Congress, Black Hat, RSA, BSides (Las Vegas and San Francisco), ShmooCon, the Electronic Frontiers Forum, and the Cypherpunk Congress.
Beyond his speaking and active practice, Kurt serves in several key leadership and advisory roles across the privacy, security, and digital rights ecosystems. He is currently President of the Board for both the Security Research Legal Defense Fund and the Financial Privacy Foundation, as well as a member of the Open Archive Advisory Board and the Zcash Community Advisory Panel. He previously served on the USENIX Board from 2014 to 2022, and on CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee’s Technical Advisory Council from 2022 to 2025.
Rainey Reitman is an author and civil liberties advocate. She co-founded and serves as president of the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation. Additionally, she worked for EFF for 11 years, first as Activism Director and then as Chief Program Officer. Reitman currently serves as a board member for the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web and runs a nonprofit consulting service called Groundwork Strategy.
Reitman’s advocacy has focused on defending the rights of whistleblowers, fighting mass government surveillance, and investigating how limiting access to financial services has been used to silence speakers. Her book, Transaction Denied (Beacon Press 2026), explores the speech implications of corporate financial policies.
Paul Tepper has devoted his professional career to social and economic justice for poor and low-income people. He has served as the President and Executive Director of Western Center on Law & Poverty, the Executive Director of the Weingart Center Association’s Development Corporation, and the Executive Director of Westside Legal Services. He began his career as a Community Organizer with the Alliance for Survival. Paul was also the founder of the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty, a research and policy organization that connected the academic community with community-based organizations, the public sector, philanthropic organizations, the business community and the media. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law and Claremont McKenna College.
He is honored to be helping the Electronic Frontier Foundation address how privacy rights are addressed in the digital sphere, particularly focusing on surveillance technology with EFF’s amazing Atlas of Surveillance team.
Richard Wiebe is a San Francisco lawyer with his own law practice, handling civil appeals as well as trial court litigation on a broad array of topics. Rick also works as outside counsel with EFF on lawsuits protecting civil liberties and individual rights in the digital world, and has done so since 2001. These lawsuits address a wide variety of public policy issues, including balancing intellectual property rights with the public interest and freedom of expression, protecting First Amendment rights of individuals and journalists, protecting individual privacy against government surveillance, and protecting voting rights.
