Intellectual Property in Academia 2008-2009

About the Moderators

• Georgia Harper, J.D.
• Laura Gasaway, M.L.S., J.D.
• Gigi Sohn, J.D.
• Peggy Hoon, J.D.
• Dru Zuretti, M.Ed.
• Tim Bowen, M.B.A.
• Steve McDonald, J.D.
• Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D.
• Pat Aufderheide, Ph.D.
• Peter Jaszi, J.D.

Georgia Harper, J.D.

Workshop: Copyright Law and Integrated Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access.
(This workshop is sold out.)

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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Laura Gasaway, M.L.S., J.D.

Workshop: The Section 108 Study

Laura Gasaway is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law. She joined the faculty in 1985 as director of the law library and professor of law. She was law library director at the University of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1984, where she directed and taught in the Law School's foreign program at Queen's College, Oxford, England, for three summers. From 1973 to 1975, she was law librarian and assistant professor of law at the University of Houston.

In addition to her library responsibilities, Gasaway teaches courses on copyright and cyberspace law. She also teaches copyright law and legal resources in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. She is a past president of the American Association of Law Libraries and is active in the Special Libraries Association (SLA). She received the SLA's John Cotton Dana award in 1987 and was named a fellow of the association in 1988. Gasaway has served on the American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and its accreditation committee. At UNC-Chapel Hill she has chaired the Committee on the Status of Women and the Women's Concerns Coalition. In 1992, she received the Mary Turner Lane Award from the Association for Women Faculty and Professionals. In 1992, she was elected to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council and was reelected to a three-year term in 1993. She served as chair of the UNC Faculty Assembly (all 16 campuses) from 1997 to 1999. Gasaway was the first virtual scholar in residence at the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College, 2001-2002. She coauthored Librarians and Copyright: A Guide to Copyright in the 1990s (1994), and has edited Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Education, Libraries, and Society (1997), and Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives (1996).

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Gigi Sohn, J.D.

Workshop: Orphan Works

Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney. In September 2001, she founded Public Knowledge with Laurie Racine (then President of the Center for the Public Domain) and activist/author David Bollier. Gigi serves as PK's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. She is frequently quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, as well as in trade and local press. Gigi has been published in the Washington Post, Variety, CNET and Legal Times. In addition, she has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including the Today Show, The McNeil-Lehrer Report, C-SPAN's Washington Journal and National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

Gigi is a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law. She has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Gigi served as a Project Specialist in the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts and Culture unit and as Executive Director of the Media Access Project, a public interest law firm that represents citizens' rights before the FCC and the courts. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Gigi to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. In May 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Gigi its Internet "Pioneer" Award. Gigi currently serves on the boards of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and the Broadcasters' Child Development Center. She is a member of the advisory board of the Future of Music Coalition and the Center for Public Integrity's "Well Connected" Telecommunications Project. Gigi served on the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors from 1997-2000. Gigi holds a B.S. in Broadcasting and Film (summa cum laude) from the Boston University College of Communication and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Peggy Hoon, J.D.

Workshop: Licensing Issues in Higher Education

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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Dru Zuretti, M.Ed.

Workshop: Licensing Issues in Higher Education

Dru Zuretti is the Client Relationship and Education Manager at Copyright Clearance Center and has been with CCC since 1997, serving in a variety of customer facing roles, including leadership and management of the Customer Relations Group. Two years ago, CCC recognized the need for a more concerted educational outreach in response to customer needs, and Dru’s responsibilities were transferred into her present position as Client Relationship Manager. In this role, Dru travels and visits many U.S. college and university campuses, businesses, consortia and corporations, at their request. She also has been a presenter on copyright issues for a variety of national conferences, including the National Association of College Stores at ConTEXT and CAMEX, the Medical Library Association Annual Conference, the Special Library Association Annual Conference, Big Ten Printing and Copyright Conference, Print Image International and the Association of College and University Printers. Prior to coming to CCC Dru was the President and General Manager of the Credit Bureau of Eastern Massachusetts, an independent credit reporting and collections agency located in Salem, Massachusetts. Dru is a member of the National Speakers Association and International Coaching Federation, and has a Master of Education degree from Cambridge College.

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Tim Bowen , M.B.A.

Workshop: Licensing Issues in Higher Education

Tim Bowen is the product manager for academic licensing at Copyright Clearance Center in Danvers, Massachusetts. He joined Copyright Clearance Center in 2003 and is responsible for the development and management of CCC's pay-per-use and annual licensing services for academic institutions. Bowen has over 20 years of product management, product marketing and channels marketing experience. Previously, he worked at Genuity, Cabletron Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation and Nashua Corporation. He holds a BS in Business Administration–Marketing from Plymouth State University and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University.

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Steve McDonald, J.D.

Workshop: Institutional Copyright Policy Development

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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Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D.

Workshop: College Cheating Trends

Tricia Bertram Gallant is the Academic Integrity Coordinator for the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in Leadership with a Higher Education focus at the University of San Diego. She has served as a director on the board of the Center for Academic Integrity, and has taught leadership and higher education administration at the undergraduate and graduate level. She focuses her work and writings on encouraging higher education faculty and administrators to reconsider student academic misconduct beyond that of “students behaving badly” to a systemic and complex issue shaped by a multitude of organizational, institutional and societal factors.

Dr. Bertram Gallant has published articles in The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and the NASPA Journal. Her monograph Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative was published in April 2008 by Jossey-Bass.

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Pat Aufderheide, Ph.D.

Workshop: Fair Use and Balance in Copyright: The Best Practices Model

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media there.She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. Aufderheide is a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst and editor on media and society and has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including a career achievement award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association. Aufderheide has served on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.

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Peter Jaszi, J.D.

Workshop: Fair Use and Balance in Copyright: The Best Practices Model

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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