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Sarah Hinchliff Pearson

General Counsel

Sarah Hinchliff Pearson is the General Counsel at Creative Commons. Her multi-disciplinary toolkit includes law, journalism, and an MBA.

Sarah found her way to the open movement through a lifelong interest in the future of media. She has a long history with Creative Commons, beginning as a member of the legal team that created the Version 4.0 license suite. She was most recently a lawyer at DuckDuckGo, returning to Creative Commons in 2024.

Sarah lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband, two kids, and 100-pound lap dog.

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Update to our Privacy Policy

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Like the rest of the internet, it seems, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) that comes into effect today has given us a good opportunity to pause and do a comprehensive review of the ways in which Creative Commons collects and uses the personal information of its community.