Tom Rubin is currently chief of intellectual property and content at OpenAI, where his responsibilities include products, partnerships, and global policy.
He is a longtime expert on legal, policy, and business issues related to content and innovation. Previously, Tom was at Microsoft for 15 years, which he joined as its first full-time copyright lawyer two weeks after the enactment of the DMCA in 1998 and became its chief intellectual property strategy counsel. Over the years, he has taught 16 courses on copyright and tech policy at Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. Tom started his career as a journalist and has remained deeply involved in the field. He worked in the newsroom of The New York Times and for The Associated Press, and is a longtime member of the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Tom also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York starting at the dawn of the commercial internet, where he became its first computer and intellectual property crimes prosecutor in the mid-1990s.