Intellectual Property in Academia 2007-2008

About the Moderators

• Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D.
• Arnold Lutzker, J.D.
• Georgia Harper, J.D.
• Gary Pavela, J.D.
• Kimberly Bonner, J.D.

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Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D.

Workshop: Copyright and Academic Culture: New Issues & Developments

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity" (New York University Press, 2001) and "The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System" (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation.

After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and New York University, and is currently an associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia.

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Arnold Lutzker, J.D.

Workshop: DMCA, P2P Filesharing and Campus Responses

Arnold Lutzker is Senior Partner at Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP. He practices copyright, trademark, Internet, art and entertainment law. He counsels on issues of ownership and use of intellectual property. He assists clients in matters of selection and registration of trademarks, licensing and effective management of trademark and copyright portfolios, and taking action on infringement claims. He has special expertise in the trademark and copyright issues that surround new media, intellectual property policy, and education. Mr. Lutzker's clients include companies in the media, software and hardware, film and television program production and telecommunications, and the Internet, as well as leading academic and library institutions.

In the legislative area, he has represented a consortium of five national library associations on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Copyright Term Extension Act, and The Teach Act. He also has represented the Directors Guild of America and The Film Foundation in connection with their effort to protect classic American movies.

In the litigation arena, he filed amicus briefs for numerous library and educational associations in the U.S. Supreme Court cases, New York Times v. Tasini (concerning the issue of freelance authors' rights in electronic re-publications of their works under U.S. copyright law), National Geographic Society v. Greenberg (concerning rights of photographers to prevent use of their commissioned works in CD-Rom form) and Eldred v. Ashcroft (the legal challenge to the constitutionality of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act). He recently defended a client's Internet advertising practices against claims of copyright and trademark infringement and is representing a software company defending its innovative DVD backup and restoration software and the public's fair use rights.

He is the author of three books, Content Rights for the Creative Professional: Copyrights and Trademarks in a Digital Age (Focal Press, 2002); Copyrights and Trademarks for Media Professionals (Focal Press, 1997) and Legal Problems in Broadcasting (Great Plains University Press, 1974), a video, Copyrights: The Internet, Multimedia and the Law (Taylor Communications, 1997), and numerous articles on copyright and trademark issues. Prior to establishing Lutzker & Lutzker with his wife, he was a principal in the Washington law firm of Fish & Richardson, P.C. and a partner in Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. He graduated City College of New York (1968, magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (1971, cum laude).

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Georgia Harper, J.D.

Workshop: Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access...What Will They Think of Next?

Georgia K. Harper is the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, where she focuses on issues of digital access. She was Senior Attorney and manager of the Intellectual Property Section of the Office of General Counsel for the University of Texas System until August 2006, where she specialized in copyright law.

While with the Office of General Counsel, she authored the online publication, The Copyright Crash Course, that provides guidance to University faculty, students and staff concerning a wide range of copyright issues and is freely accessible to all universities and colleges.

She has conducted local, state, regional and national workshops and seminars on copyright issues and has been an advisor to the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the American Council on Education, as well as the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage in connection with its Copyright and Fair Use Town Meetings. She was named a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys in June 2001.

Ms. Harper graduated with High Honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Education and with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin's Law School with a J.D. degree. She is currently pursuing a third degree from the University of Texas at Austin, this time in Information Science.

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Gary Pavela, J.D.

Workshop: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity

Gary Pavela teaches in the honors program at the University of Maryland and writes law and policy newsletters to which over 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada subscribe. He was a law clerk to Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C (the training arm of the United States Courts), and a staff attorney for the State University of New York, Central Administration. He has been a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Center for Behavioral Science and law, taught at Colgate University, and serves on the Board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

Identified by the New York Times as an "authority on academic ethics," Gary Pavela has been a consultant on law and policy issues at many leading universities, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, The University of California at San Diego, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Georgetown University, The United States Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Brown University, Colgate University,Vassar College, and Smith College, among many others.

In 2002 Gary was designated a "Fellow" of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Fellows of the Association are identified as individuals who have "brought distinction to higher education and to the practice of law on behalf of colleges and universities across the nation." In 2005 he received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' "Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research" award. In 2006 he was designated the University of Maryland "Outstanding Faculty Educator" by the Maryland Parents' Association.

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Kimberly Bonner, J.D.

Workshop: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity

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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