Anthony Falzone

As executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, Falzone finds himself in the middle of hot-button copyright disputes. In June, he won a free speech battle against the family of John Lennon over the right to use a clip of his song "Imagine" in a film casting doubt on the theory of evolution. Earlier in the year, he was on a legal team that argued unsuccessfully against lawyers for J.K. Rowling, who persuaded a New York judge to issue an injunction barring publication of a reference guide to the Harry Potter series.