Diane M. Peters

Ms. Peters is General Counsel for Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing the public with free legal tools to enable sharing and use of creative content. Prior to working with Creative Commons, Ms. Peters was Legal counsel to the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation, a non profit public benefit corporation dedicated to preserving innovation and openness on the internet through the development of open source software, including the Firefox web browser. Ms. Peters has also served as General Counsel to Open Source Development Labs, a non profit trade association supporting development of the Linux kernel and adoption of the GNU/Linux operating system. Ms. Peters earned a B.A. in political science from Grinnell College and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law, where she served as an executive editor of the Washington University Law Quarterly. After law school, Ms. Peters clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago.