There are formal and informal bios and pics on this page. First, the informal…
Andrew Rens at Deer Creek on the Lost Coast
aliquid novi is a blog by Andrew Rens, wannabe intellectual, recovering lawyer, access to knowledge activist and commons theorist. He is currently a legal consultant based in Cape Town. He hopes to get a chance to do some rock climbing on Table Mountain sandstone…or Paarl granite, sometime soon, in between working on open licences for education, open standards, exceptions for documentary film makers, digitisation copyright issues, open business models, free software licences, user generated content issues, digital savvy for kids, freedom to innovate, the problem of insidious software patenting, the philosophy of intellectual property…
and then the formal:
Portrait Photograph Andrew Rens
Andrew Rens thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation, and blogs his thoughts at www.aliquidnovi.org. Currently based in Cape Town, Andrew works as legal consultant, as well as conducting research through Intellectual Property Law Research at the University of Cape Town, and is currently teaching a Master’s course in Telecommunications Law (February to June 2010) at the University of Cape Town Law School.
Andrew has worked in academe, private practise and the non profit sector. He was the founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and former director of The African Commons Project, a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was awarded a Master of Laws from the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master’s courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California. Andrew recently completed a three year fellowship as the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation,
