Bob Kohn

Robert H. Kohn, Esq. is Chairman and CEO of Laugh.com, the world's leading comedy record company, which he founded with comedian George Carlin. He was founder and Chairman of EMusic.com, the leading MP3 music subscription service, recently acquired by Vivendi/Universal. He also does legal consulting in the software and entertainment industries.

From October, 1996 to December, 1997, Bob was Vice President, Business Development for Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., the world's leading developer of encryption, security and privacy software used on the Internet. From March, 1987 to September, 1996, he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel of Borland International, Inc., one of the world’s leading developers of personal computer software. Before that he was Associate General Counsel for Candle Corporation, a developer of software for IBM mainframe computers, and Corporate Counsel for Ashton-Tate, a microcomputer software company, acquired by Borland in 1991. Prior to Ashton-Tate, he was an attorney at the law offices of Rudin & Richman in Beverly Hills, California, and worked as Associate Editor of the Entertainment Law Reporter. Bob became a member of the California Bar in 1981 after graduating from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is Adjunct Professor of law at Monterey College of Law where he is a professor of Corporate Law.

Lee Gomes, staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, wrote the cover story, Crypto Counsel, for the Spring, 1997 issue of House Counsel magazine, a supplement to California Lawyer magazine. House Counsel was distributed to over 25,000 lawyers around the country. Here are links to the cover page, page 1, page 2, page 3, and a feature photograph by photographer Ed Caldwell.

Co-author of Kohn On Music Licensing (Aspen Law & Business 1996)
Co-author of The Art of Music Licensing (Prentice Hall/Aspen Law & Business 1993)
Co-author of Borland's U.S. Supreme Court brief in Lotus v. Borland (December 8, 1995)
Bob Kohn's Testimony before the Federal Trade Commission on Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law (November 29, 1995)
Bob Kohn's Testimony before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (January 26, 1994)
Author of Mind and Brain: The Genius of Fortune (The Great Ideas Today 1994)
Bob Kohn’s Recommended Reading List
Bob Kohn’s Three Most Admired Men

Read The Kohn Times, the popular Holiday Newsletter of the Kohn Family . . .

1997 Edition Page 1, 2, 3, and 4
1996 Edition Page 1, 2, 3, and 4
1995 Edition Page 1, and 2

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