# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-w-carroll
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:34:44.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-w-carroll"
name: "Michael W. Carroll"
slug: "michael-w-carroll"
description: "Michael W. Carroll is a law professor and director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University's Washington College of Law. Carroll is one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons, a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Library of Science PLOS and served on the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Research Data and Information from 2008 to 2013."
tagline: "Professor of Law"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carroll_by_Ito.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1963-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.07
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.135889333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MikeCarroll_US"
    handle:    "MikeCarroll_US"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Carroll"
    title: "Michael W. Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "مايكل كارول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%93_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2"
    title: "মাইকেল ডব্লিও ক্যারল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Carroll"
    title: "Michael W. Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Carroll"
    title: "Michael W. Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_W._%EC%BA%90%EB%A1%A4"
    title: "마이클 W. 캐롤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Кэрролл, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6835127"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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