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Nick Rosen is an author, campaigner and documentary film-maker. His bookOff the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America is published by Penguin Books and was released July 27, 2010.[1]
His bookHow To Live Off-Grid,[2] published byDoubleday June 2007, is a guide to escaping the rat race; part of an ecological campaign to change the rules on planning permission via his websiteOff-Grid.net started in 1996.
In the early nineties, Nick became a freelance journalist, primarily writing forThe Times andThe Guardian. It was during this period that he met Katharine Hamnett and co-founded the short lived eco magazineTOMORROW.
In 1992, Rosen formed a TV production company, Vivum, and began to make documentaries for the ITVFirst Tuesday series. In 1992-3 he producedBrezhnev's Daughter, a documentary about the way theNomenklatura were coming to terms with the new order in Russia. It won Best International Production prize at theNY Film and TV Festival.
Rosen wrote "The Durlacher Report" which became the base document in many of the early Internet IPOs, such as Demon, Pipex and Easynet[citation needed], and followed this withThe Net-Head Handbook, a satire about the dawning of the internet.
In 2004, Rosen producedSacred Ground, the fight for Ground Zero, for PBS and Channel 4 – a film about the battle to build a meaningful memorial atGround Zero, and in 2006 he produced Britain’sCommuter Nightmare, a one-hour documentary forChannel 4 Dispatches.
His other ventures as start-ups included The Online Research Agency Limited which in its short life produced one considerable work "Business.eu" - a report focused on online business in Europe. Online Research Agency was wound up in an orderly manner in 2001, shortly after Rosen had sold the domain name 'itv.com' to the ITV company Granada for approximately £100,000; he had registered it to himself back in 1994.[3] In 2000, Rosen had been taken to the WIPO domain tribunal by another media company, XFM radio, after Rosen had registered the domain name 'xfm.com' in 1996 via his company Intervid Limited; the panel concluded that "the onus lies on the complainant...it is felt that it has not done quite enough to shift that onus. In view of the above, the claim for relief is denied."[4] In autumn 1995, theInternational Times editor and publisher, Chris Brook, threatened legal proceedings via David Wineman solicitors over another domain name issue; Rosen then claimed a 'mistake' had been made and the issue was settled.[5]
In 1999 he met his wife, artistFiona Banner. They married in 2005 and have a young daughter.
He is the son of scientistDennis Rosen.
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