Patrick Ross is executive director of the Copyright Alliance, a grass-roots coalition of artists, producers and distributors from across the copyright spectrum launched in May 2007. The Copyright Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization dedicated to the value of copyright as an agent for creativity, jobs and growth.

Prior to launching the Copyright Alliance, Ross was a senior fellow and vice president with The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a free-market think tank in Washington, D.C. He focused on intellectual property issues for PFF’s Center for the Study of Digital Property, specifically the rights of artists.

Ross spent a decade as a journalist covering the growth of the Internet. Most of that time was spent writing for Communications Daily and its sister publication Washington Internet Daily, the latter of which he managed. He also was the first Washington bureau chief for CNET News.com. Prior to writing for those publications he managed his own consulting business as a writer and editor. He is a nine-time award winner for investigative journalism.

In the late 1980s Ross worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. He studied international relations as an undergraduate at Pomona College and as a graduate student at Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College.