Brad Templeton
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Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur.
Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet, which uses Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase Imminent death of net predicted. He also founded Looking Glass Software, and was involved in the development of a number of software packages.
He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has moderated the Usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny since 1987. To Commodore users he's probably best known for Power and the assembler PAL.
Templeton is widely known in the Internet and legal community for writing about political and social issues related to computing and networks. One of the most frequently-cited works on Internet copyright law is his 10 Big Myths of Copyright Explained. He is also known on the rec.arts.comics usenet hierarchy as being one of the few group founders who never went out of their way to run new posters off.
