Fred Benenson cofounded Free Culture @ NYU during his senior year while he was studying philosophy and computer science. After graduating in 2005, he worked as the free culture intern at Creative Commons where he worked on promoting Creative Commons in the real world. He is currently a fellow at Creative Commons and will be attending NYU's ITP program at the Tisch School of the Arts where he hopes to work on digital art and technology in order to further the free culture movement.