Marvin Ammori

Who is Marvin Ammori?

Marvin Ammori is an American lawyer, activist, and scholar best known for his work on network neutrality and Internet freedom issues generally. He is a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and serves on the boards of public interest advocacy groups Demand Progress and Fight for the Future. In 2007, while serving as the General Counsel for nonprofit advocacy group Free Press, he brought the Comcast-BitTorrent case, the first network neutrality enforcement action in the United States. Ammori took part in the debate over the controversial copyright bills SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act, arguing that the bills would violate the First Amendment. Partly for his role in opposing SOPA and PIPA, Ammori was recognized on Fast Company's 2012 "100 Most Creative People in Business." Ammori later proposed a holiday called "Internet Freedom Day," to be celebrated on January 18, the anniversary of the SOPA Blackout.

Ammori was a law professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law, where his scholarship focused on First Amendment doctrine.