Intellectual Property in Academia 2009-2010

About the Instructors

• Olga Francois, M.L.I.S.


• Tomas Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.


• Peggy Hoon, J.D.


• Kimberly Bonner, J.D.


• Steve McDonald, J.D.


• Peter Jaszi, J.D.


• Fred von Lohmann, J.D.

Olga Francois, M.L.I.S.

Workshop: Copyright Education Programs: Teaching the Ethical and Legal Use of Information

Olga Francois is the Assistant Director of the Center for Intellectual Property, where, collaboratively, she writes instructional tools and delivers professional development programming. In addition to her role at the Center, she teaches research methods courses for the School of Undergraduate Studies and the Graduate School of Management and Technology at University of Maryland University College.

Ms. Francois received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Smith College, and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

She has taught Information Competency curriculum, research methods, and course-related Library Instruction at John Jay College, Borough of Manhattan Community College (City University of New York), and Pierce College in Washington State. Ms. Francois has given conference presentations, and her most recent publications include chapters in The Center for Intellectual Property Handbook ("Copyright Education Programs") and Information Literacy Assesssment: Standards-Based Tools and Assignments ("Information, Social Context, and Ethical and Legal Issues").

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Tomas Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.

Workshop: Copyright Education Programs: Teaching the Ethical and Legal Use of Information

Tomas Lipinski is a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies. In addition to this position, he was the co-director of the Center for Information Policy Research from 1998 through 2006 which is also housed at the University of Wisconsin.

Mr. Lipinski received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, J.D. from Marquette University Law School, a LL.M. from The John Marshal Law School, a M.L.I.S. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, and a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

His research interests include information law and policy and library-related legal problems. He also taught at Syracuse University’s College of Law as an adjunct professor of law. Lipinski has written The Complete Copyright Liability Handbook for Librarians and Educators (2006) and Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom (2005) as well as The Library's Legal Answer Book (2003) with Mary Minow.

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Peggy Hoon, J.D.

Workshop: Licensing Digital Materials

Peggy E. Hoon is the North Carolina State University's Special Assistant to the Provost for Copyright Administration, effective September 2007. In this role, Ms. Hoon helps shape the university’s policies and regulations with regard to copyright, and she has shared that knowledge with countless other libraries and universities, through a busy speaking schedule and strong presence on the Internet. She also works closely with the University Copyright Committee and holds authority to grant permission to use NC State copyrighted materials.

Prior to this position, she was the NCSU Libraries' first Scholarly Communication Librarian and managed their Scholarly Communication Center and its programs since its inception in 1998. Her primary responsibilities included providing guidance to the library staff on matters pertaining to scholarly communication, including electronic resource licensing, copyright and fair use, and user privacy issues. Additionally, she provided guidance to faculty and others in the NC State community on scholarly communication matters and copyright ownership or use issues and policies and speaks frequently on these topics. She has developed a new Web site focused entirely on matters of copyright (http://provost.ncsu.edu/copyright/).

In addition to a J.D. Degree from the University of Washington, Hoon holds a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Colorado.

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Kimberly Bonner, J.D.

Certificate: Foundations in Copyright Management and Leadership

Kimberly Bonner is the Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College. She coordinates the Center's activities, which include education, research and resource development on the impact of intellectual property issues in higher education. Ms. Bonner also writes grants for the Center to support its initiatives.

In addition to directing the Center's initiatives, Ms. Bonner has taught copyright and communications law courses at both the Undergraduate and Graduate School for UMUC. Recent papers include “Intellectual Property, Ownership and Digital Course Materials: A Survey of Intellectual Property Policies at Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities” (portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2 (2), 255-266), and Academic Dishonesty: Faculty and Administrator Responses and Perceptions of the Impact of Digital Text and Distance Education. Ms. Bonner has previously been an invited presenter at several higher education policy conferences including Educause and the Higher Education Law and Policy Institute.

Prior to joining UMUC, Ms. Bonner was a law clerk for Chief United States District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in the Middle District of Georgia for two years. After her clerkship, Ms. Bonner joined the law firm of Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, LLP in Washington, DC. At Howrey, she specialized in trade secret, trademark and Year 2000 insurance coverage litigation. Ms. Bonner received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1993 in Foreign Affairs and her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia in 1996. While at the Law School, she served on the editorial board and was a book review editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law.

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Steve McDonald, J.D.

Workshop: Institutional Copyright Policies

Steven J. McDonald is General Counsel at Rhode Island School of Design and previously served as Associate Legal Counsel at The Ohio State University. He has handled a number of Internet-related legal matters, ranging from alleged infringements of copyrighted materials on student Web pages to investigations of computer break-ins to an e-mail death threat to Socks the cat.

He began his legal career in private practice at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he represented CompuServe in Cubby v. CompuServe, the first online libel case, and he also has taught courses in Internet law at Ohio State's College of Law and at Capital University Law School. He is a Fellow and past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and is the editor of NACUA’s The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Legal Compendium. In State, ex rel. Thomas v. The Ohio State University, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that he really is a lawyer.

He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from The Yale Law School.

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Peter Jaszi, J.D.

Workshop: Google Book Search in Depth

Peter Jaszi is faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University. He holds expertise in intellectual property and copyright law. He was Pauline Ruvle Moore Scholar in Public Law from 1981-82; Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Awardee in 1982; and he received the AU Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Development in 1996. He is a member of the Selden Society (state correspondent for Washington, D.C.). Previously he was a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. trustee, 1992-94; International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property; National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., Animal Welfare Board, 1986-present; Library of Congress Advisory Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit (ACCORD), 1993.

He has written many chapters, articles and monographs on copyright, intellectual property, technology and other issues. He was editor of The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (with M. Woodmansee, Duke University Press, 1994) (also published as a law journal issue, 10 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 274, 1992). He is co-author of Legal Issues in Addict Diversion (Lexington Books, 1976) and Copyright Law, Third Edition (Matthew Bender & Co., 1994).

He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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Fred von Lohmann, J.D.

Workshop: P2P File-sharing on Campus: Legal Controversies and Emerging Solutions

Fred von Lohmann is Senior Intellectual Property Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and has represented many clients in litigation against major record labels, movie studios, television/cable networks, and music publishers. He was involved in MGM v. Grokster, which led to a 2005 Supreme Court decision. In addition to litigation, he is involved in EFF's efforts to educate policymakers regarding the proper balance between intellectual property protection and the public interest in fair use, free expression, and innovation.

Before joining EFF, Fred was a visiting researcher with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, where his research focused on the impact of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies on the future of copyright. Prior to his research fellowship, Fred was an attorney with the international firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, concentrating on transactions and counseling involving the Internet and intellectual property. Fred also served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Thelton Henderson, of the US District Court for Northern California, and Judge Betty B. Fletcher, of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

He is widely quoted by national publications and has also appeared on many news programs including CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and ABC’s Good Morning America. Fred serves as an advisor to the American Law Institute's (ALI) Principles of the Law of Software Contracts project. He also serves on the advisory boards of Public Knowledge and the Future of Music Coalition.

Mr. von Lohmann has an A.B. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

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