Editing Ian Clarke (computer scientist) (section)

==Freenet==
In 1995, Clarke left [[Dundalk]] to study Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the [[University of Edinburgh]], Scotland. While at Edinburgh, he became president of the then dormant Artificial Intelligence Society, resulting in its revival.<ref name="linkedin1">{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/iancjclarke |title=Ian Clarke |publisher=LinkedIn |date= |accessdate=2016-06-05}}</ref> In Clarke's final year at Edinburgh, he completed his final year project, entitled "A Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System". In July 1999, after receiving a 'B' grade for his paper, he decided to release it to the Internet and invited volunteers to help implement his design. The resulting free software project became known as [[Freenet]], and attracted significant attention from the mainstream and technology media.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/10/business/cyberspace-programmers-confront-copyright-laws.html | title = Cyberspace Programmers Confront Copyright Laws| author = John Markoff| work=The New York Times | date = 10 May 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1216486.stm | work=BBC News | title=Coders prepare son of Napster | date=12 March 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/12/19/internet.freedom/index.html?iref=allsearch | title=Fighting for free speech on the Net | work = CNN | date = 19 December 2005}}</ref>

In August 1999, Clarke began his first full-time job as a software developer in the Space Division of [[Logica]] plc, a London-based software consulting company. In February 2000, he left Logica to join a small software start-up called Instil Ltd.<ref name="linkedin1"/> In August 2000, he left London for [[Santa Monica, California]], where he co-founded Uprizer, Inc. with the intent of commercializing some of his Freenet-related ideas.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/business/media/18thoof.html | work=The New York Times | first=John | last=Markoff | title=Another Attempt to Match Readers and Relevant News | date=18 June 2007}}</ref> In January 2001, Uprizer Inc. successfully raised $4 million in [[Series A round]] venture funding from investors including [[Intel Capital]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/P2P-Love-your-enemy/0,130061791,120221443,00.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070527005630/http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/P2P-Love-your-enemy/0,130061791,120221443,00.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 May 2007 |title=Latest Topics |website=ZDNet.com.au |date=2015-06-30 |accessdate=2016-06-05}}</ref>

In March 2001, Clarke published an article describing FairShare, developed in collaboration with Uprizer's co-founders, [[Steven Starr]] and Rob Kramer. Clarke was concerned that copyright would become increasingly difficult to enforce in the Internet age, the goal of Fairshare was to provide an alternative to copyright as a way to compensate creators.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freenetproject.org/fairshare.html |title=The Freenet Project - /Fairshare - beginner |accessdate=23 October 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314205708/http://freenetproject.org/fairshare.html |archivedate=14 March 2007 }}</ref>