John Buckman's home page As an Internet entrepreneur, I like founding companies that cause some heck and which have a social benefit. Magnatune is an Internet record label I founded in 2003. It is known for its pro-artist, pro-consumer, anti-major-label stance summed up in its slogan: "We are not evil." I also run MoodMixes, providing background music to businesses using Magnatune's catalog. BookMooch is an online community for the exchange of used books, which I founded in 2006. People in 91 countries use it to exchange over a million books a year in many different languages, as well as donating a hundred thousand books to libraries and charities. The Internet Freedom and Free Culture movements inspire all I do. I serve as chairman of the board of the EFF (USA); am on the advisory board of the Open Rights Group (UK); and am a regular invited speaker regarding the business use of Creative Commons. I live both in the San Francisco Bay Area and in London, England, but spent my childhood in Paris, France. My current favorite band is Lamb of God and I play the renaissance lute. Lyris is an email management software company I founded in 1996. It employed 50 people when I sold it in 2005. I've been profiled by The Economist, Forbes and Inc. Magazine. However, I'm sort of finished with my hyper-alpha-salesguy-American thing and now prefer to just code, meet interesting people, code, enjoy life, code and work on useful things. Someday I might finish my cookbook on raw fish recipes from around the World entitled "Cold Fish." My Wikipedia page has the most up-to-date information about me. This web site was rewritten in 2008, but you can find the old home page here. You can email me through BookMooch. (photo credit Joi Ito, CC by v2)