Andrew Katz
With over 30 years’ experience in the technology field, Andrew is a leading free and open-source software lawyer. He regularly advises clients on technology law, computer software licensing and distribution, open source licensing, business structures and compliance, open hardware licensing, open data, the legal aspects of AI, and particularly IP and regulatory aspects of large language models.
Andrew’s clients range across the spectrum of startups to multinationals and he also advises foundations, public sector bodies, academic institutions and trans-national bodies.
Andrew is a Fellow of both the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Open Forum Academy, and for seven years held the post of visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, where he taught postgraduates free and open source software law. He is co-author of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice published by Oxford University Press in 2022, as well as a number of other books and papers on open source law and technology law. He is currently a visiting researcher on standards and open source at the University of Skövde, Sweden.
He has also recently launched an initiative to manage risk in the open source and AI software supply chains, through the structures of process, procedure and insurance.