# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yochai-benkler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:20:57.362Z

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description: "Yochai Benkler is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In academia he is best known for coining the term commons-based peer production and his widely cited 2006 book The Wealth of Networks."
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birthDate: "1964"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump