# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-eldred
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:51:04.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-eldred"
name: "Eric Eldred"
slug: "eric-eldred"
description: "Eric Eldred is an American literacy advocate and the proprietor of the unincorporated Eldritch Press. Eldred was lead plaintiff in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act but lost in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 with the lawyer Lawrence Lessig. He co-founded Creative Commons and served on its board of directors."
tagline: "American activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Eldred.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.81
  momentum:             5.357142857142859
  historical:           7.205292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Ерік Елдред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "إريك إلدريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eldred"
    title: "Eric Eldred"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eldred"
    title: "Eric Eldred"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eldred"
    title: "Eric Eldred"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eldred"
    title: "Eric Eldred"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eldred"
    title: "Eric Eldred"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Элдред, Эрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5386427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump