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Most legal advice for frontier tech starts from fear: what could leak, who could copy, what must be locked down.
I start from a different question: how should your knowledge flow?
If you're building something that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge in AI, biotech, or any frontier field, you've probably felt the false choice. Locking everything in reduces your chances to cooperate and collaborate. Meanwhile traditional open-sourcing may not be commercially viable. Both treat protection and sharing as if they contradict each other.
They do not. They are complementary layers of one system.
I design that system. IP, contracts, trade secrets, licensing, and governance structures, not as isolated specialties, but as the legal architecture that determines how knowledge flows: what stays in the core, what opens at the edges, and on what terms. Release timing built on how ideas actually spread (Rogers' diffusion curve, applied as a licensing roadmap). Structures that hold across the jurisdictions that matter to you.
Background: Turkish-qualified attorney; PhD researcher in open source AI and intellectual property at the CZS Institute for AI and Law, Tübingen; boutique consultancy practice serving frontier tech companies across Turkey, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Here I write about knowledge governance: for founders who refuse to choose between protecting their work and letting it matter in the world.
If that tension sounds like yours, my messages are open.
