Mike Godwin
- January 5, 2024
- Lawyer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Mike Godwin |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 26, 1956(1956-10-26) |
| Age | 68 |
| Birthplace | United States |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Scorpio |
Mike Godwin Biography
| Name | Mike Godwin |
| Birthday | Oct 26 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | United States |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
Mike Godwin is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on October 26, 1956 in United States, United States. Author and attorney known for having created the Godwin’s Law internet adage. Godwin’s Law became an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2012.
Both he and actor Matthew McConaughey received undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
Godwin was educated at Lamar High School in Houston, before graduating in 1980 from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Plan II Honors program. Godwin later attended the University of Texas School of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctor degree in 1990. While in law school, Godwin was the editor of The Daily Texan, the student newspaper, from 1988 to 1989.
Godwin originated Godwin’s law in 1990, stating:
He is from the United States.
Mike Godwin Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Lawyer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Mike Godwin is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Godwin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
While attending law school at the University of Texas he worked as an editor for The Daily Texan.
He worked as an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the early 1990’s.
Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) 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, as reported in the October 1994 issue of Wired. 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 served as a contributing editor of Reason magazine since 1994. In April 2019, he was elected to the Internet Society board. He is currently general counsel and director of innovation policy at the R Street Institute.
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From 2003 to 2005, Godwin was staff attorney and later legal director of Public Knowledge, a non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C., concerned with intellectual property law. Godwin has worked on copyright and technology policy, including the relationship between digital rights management and American copyright law. While at Public Knowledge, he supervised litigation that successfully challenged the Federal Communications Commission’s broadcast flag regulation that would have imposed DRM restrictions on television. From October 2005 to April 2007, Godwin was a research fellow at Yale University, holding dual positions in the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School, and at the Yale Computer Science Department’s Privacy, Obligations and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment (PORTIA) project.
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Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mike Godwin celebrates birthday on October 26 of every year.
Godwin was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation from July 3, 2007, until October 22, 2010. Commenting on the self-correcting nature of Wikipedia in an interview with The New York Times in which he said that he had corrected his own Wikipedia article, Godwin said, “The best answer for bad speech is more speech.” When the Federal Bureau of Investigation demanded in July 2010 that its seal be removed from Wikipedia, Godwin sent a “whimsically written letter” in response, denying the demand and describing the FBI’s interpretation of the law as “idiosyncratic … and, more importantly, incorrect.”