By Kevin McCauley
Wikimedia Foundation has hired Dow Lohnes Government Strategies to deal with online intellectual property infringement matters.
DLGS chairman Kenneth Salomon spearheads the focus on legislation such as the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act.
He is assisted by Jim Burger, who was a senior director in Apple’s law department; Stephen Sayle, former majority counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Committee; Eric Kessler, ex-chief of staff for Rep. John Dingell, and Peter Leon, former legislative director to Rep. Eliot Engel.
Wikimedia has just wrapped up its 2011 fundraising drive, which brought in a record $20M in donations to the San Francisco-based outfit.
Its websites are viewed more by more than 470M people each month.
FitzGibbon Media handles PR for Wikimedia. |