CEO of Magnatune.com & BookMooch.com, EFF & ORG board member
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Board Member at Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Member of the Advisory Council at Open Rights Group
- Founder at BookMooch.com
- CEO/Founder at Magnatune.com
- Past
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- Chairman of the Board at Wreck-a-Movie.com
- Member of Board of Directors at Creative Commons
- Member of board of directors at MetaBrainz Foundation
- Former CEO at Lyris Technologies Inc
- CEO/Founder at Walter Shelby Group, Inc.
- Junior Programmer at Discovery Channel
- Junior Programmer at Yale University Health Services
- Junior Programmer at Yale University ITS
- Intern at Yale University ITS
- Education
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- Bates College
- Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
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John Buckman’s Summary
I run the book-exchange web site BookMooch.com, and the online record label magnatune.com. I founded, ran and sold Lyris. I'm on the board of the EFF and Open Rights Group (UK). I live in both in the San Francisco Bay Area and London, England, alternating every 6 weeks between the two.
John Buckman’s Specialties:
Music business, book publishing, open source
John Buckman’s Experience
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Board Member
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Law Practice industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I'm a member of the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Member of the Advisory Council
Open Rights Group
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
I'm a member of the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a London, England based lobby for citizen rights on the Internet. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
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Founder
BookMooch.com
(Publishing industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. See http://bookmooch.com
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CEO/Founder
Magnatune.com
(Music industry)
April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)
Magnatune is a record label, that is not evil. We sign musicians, sell downloads and CDs, and license music online. All our music is creative commons licensed, and we split revenue 50/50 with our musicians.
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Chairman of the Board
Wreck-a-Movie.com
(Internet industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
This Finnish company is trying to build a web site which helps people collaboratively make feature films, in the same way as the film Star Wreck was made (by many of the same people involved). Also provided funding for the film Iron Sky, which is the next film by the Star Wreck producers.
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Member of Board of Directors
Creative Commons
(Non-Profit; Legal Services industry)
November 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 2 months)
In February 2006, I was elected to the board of directors of the Creative Commons (creativecommons.org), an organization that applies open source philosophy to other media, such as music, writing and film. Specifically, CC issues "open" licenses that millions of others use to grant generous rights to their creations.
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Member of board of directors
MetaBrainz Foundation
(Music industry)
January 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 8 months)
The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501.(c).3 tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California that operates the MusicBrainz project.
MusicBrainz is a user maintained community music metadatabase. Music metadata is information such as the name of an artist, the name of an album and list of tracks that appear on an album. MusicBrainz collects this information about music and makes it available to the public. -
Former CEO
Lyris Technologies Inc
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — May 2005 (9 years 5 months)
Lyris sells email list server software (Lyris ListManager), and antispam software (MailShield). In April of 2005, I sold Lyris and am no longer involved with the company.
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CEO/Founder
Walter Shelby Group, Inc.
(Internet industry)
February 1993 — January 1996 (3 years)
This was my first real post-college company. I hired some programmers, and together we wrote TILE, a program to convert Lotus Notes databases into web sites. I also wrote InfoMagnet, a Windows desktop program for finding and using Internet discussion groups.
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Junior Programmer
Discovery Channel
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year)
Wrote software to make ad sales proposals, also software to analyze Nielsen ratings. Discovery used Lotus Notes and was making a big investment in their web site, so I struck on my own to write TILE, a Notes->Web conversion program.
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Junior Programmer
Yale University Health Services
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
January 1986 — September 1989 (3 years 9 months)
Personally wrote most of the software which ran the Yale University Health Services, including patient records, visits, doctor's notes, major medical claim tracking, and lab tests. All on a MAI Basic 4 minicomputer.
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Junior Programmer
Yale University ITS
(Computer Software industry)
April 1983 — September 1985 (2 years 6 months)
Wrote software demonstrating possible uses of hardware devices that will be released in upcoming years: Yale received free samples of upcoming equipment but no software or applications supported it yet, and Yale wanted to see what potential uses the equipment had.
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Intern
Yale University ITS
(Computer Software industry)
April 1982 — March 1983 (1 year)
Responsible for operating the check signing machine, filing and re-typing failing punch cards, mounting tapes into tape drives, teaching the word processing class to secretaries.
John Buckman’s Education
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Bates College
BA , Philosophy , 1987 — 1991
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Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Maitrise , Philosophie , 1989 — 1990
Focus on linguistics. Studied with and received recommendation from Professor Julia Kristeva http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Kristeva.
Additional Information
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John Buckman’s Interests:
music: renaissance classical, baroque classical, industrial, EBM, IDM, melodeath, prog rock, Indian classical, world fusion. I play the renaissance lute and viola da gamba, epicure, foreign languages (I speak French, learning German)
John Buckman’s Groups:
Toastmasters, Long Now Foundation, Open Rights Group, EFF, Lute Society
John Buckman’s Contact Settings
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