Intellectual Property Virtual Scholar Program

As part of the University of Maryland University College's commitment to national leadership in distance education, the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (CIP) has established a Virtual Scholar-In-Residence Program. As part of our academic community, the Intellectual Property Scholar has the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, conduct research, and teach. Our faculty, as well as the general community, benefit from new perspectives on intellectual property that the Scholar can provide through teaching, research, and outreach.

The scholars are selected because of their outstanding contribution to the world of copyright and intellectual property as well as their background in information technology, copyright law, policy and administration, scholarly electronic communication, and many other topics.

About the IP Scholar Program

Laura N. (Lolly) Gasaway

Intellectual Property Scholar, 2001-2002

Brief Background
Professional Memberships
Honors and Awards
Recent Professional Service
Web Presentations
Publications

Brief Background

Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been a Professor of Law and the Director of the Law Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill since 1985. She teaches courses in Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law in the law school and Law Librarianship and Legal Resources in the School of Information and Library Science.

She obtained her B.A. and M.L.S. degrees from Texas Woman's University in 1967 and 1968 respectively. Her J.D. degree is from the University of Houston in 1973. Prior to going to Chapel Hill, she held the same position at the University of Oklahoma from 1975-84 and at the University of Houston from 1973-75.

Lolly is a past president of the American Association of Law Libraries and is a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association and has served on and chaired various committees of both associations, including their Copyright Committees. She served on the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee from 1987-95. Lolly represented the American Association of Universities at the Fair Use Conferences (for the National Information Infrastructure). An expert in copyright law, Professor Gasaway has taught numerous workshops and spoken at many conferences nationwide. She has an impressive record of publication on topics ranging from copyright to law library management issues, to women in the law and sexual harassment. She writes the Copyright Corner for SLA’s Information Outlook and also has a copyright column in Against the Grain.

Professional Memberships

American Association of Law Libraries
American Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
North Carolina Bar Association
Order of the Coif
Special Libraries Association
State Bar of Texas.

Honors and Awards

Horace S. Manges Lecturer in Copyright, Columbia University School of Law, March, 2000
Special Libraries Association, Fellow, 1988
Marta Lange Award, 1998
Mary Turner Lane Award, 1992
Distinguished Alumnae, Texas Woman’s University, 1988
Special Libraries Association, John Cotton Dana Award, 1987
Arkansas Library Association, Compton Award, Best article in Arkansas Libraries, 1984-86
Special Libraries Association, H.W. Wilson Award, Best article in Special Libraries, 1983

Recent Professional Service

American Association of Law Libraries, President, 1986-87

American Association of Law Libraries, Electronic Fair Use Committee, Chair, 1994-96

American Association of Law Libraries, Copyright Committee, 1980-82; 1992-94; 1997-01; Chair, 1980-82; 1992-93; 1997-98

American Bar Association, Committee on Accreditation 1987-95
American Bar Association Committee on Libraries, 1995-
American Bar Association, Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 1997-
Association of American Universities, Task Force on Intellectual Property, 1993-
Special Libraries Association, Research Committee, 1995-98; Chair, 1995-96
Special Libraries Association, Committee on Committees, 1991-95; Chair, 1991-94
Special Libraries Association, Copyright Committee, Chair, 1983-91, 1998-
Special Libraries Association, Publishing Division, Treasurer 1978-92

Web Presentations

Copyright on the World Wide Web, January 29 1997, UNC-INLS Seminar on Internet Policy and Future Initiative (Real Audio and Powerpoint Slides. Discusses academic fair use of material on the internet, linking, etc.)

Testimony of Laura N. Gasaway, Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Concerning the Copyright Office Report on Distance Education. June 24, 1999 Washington, DC

Testimony of Laura N. Gasaway, Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Concerning Promotion of Distance Education Through Digital Technologies. January 27, 1999, Washington, DC

Publications

Books

GROWING PAINS: ADAPTING COPYRIGHT TO LIBRARIES, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY (1997).

LAW LIBRARIANSHIP: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, co-edited with Michael G. Chiorazzi (1996).

LIBRARIANS AND COPYRIGHT: A GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT IN THE 1990s (1994) with Sarah K. Wiant.

LAW LIBRARY MANAGEMENT DURING FISCAL AUSTERITY (1992) with Bruce S. Johnson & James M. Murray.

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMS, with Maureen Murphy (1980).

AMERICAN INDIAN LEGAL MATERIALS: A UNION LIST with James L. Hoover & Dorothy M. Warden. (1980)

Articles and Chapters

Impass: Distance Learning and Copyright, 62 Ohio State L.J. 783 (2001).

Values Conflict in the Digital Environment: Librarians Versus Copyright Holders, accepted for publication, 24 Columbia VLA L.Rev. ____. (2001).

Change – the Only Certainty in Copyright, in THE BOWKER ANNUAL, 194-207 (45th ed. 2000).

The Year in Copyright, 12 Against the Grain, Feb. 2000, at 1, 1628.

Copyright Considerations for Fee-Based Document Delivery Services, 10 J. Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Info. Supply 75-92 (1999).

Guidelines for Distance Learning and Interlibrary Loan: Doomed and More Doomed, 50 J. Am. Soc’y Info. Sci. 1337-41 (1999).

Distance Learning and Copyright: Is a Solution in Sight?, 22 CAUSE/EFFECT 6-8, 25 (1999). http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem/cem99/cem9932.html.

Distance Learning and Copyright, 1 J. of Libr. Service for Distance Educ. at http://www.westga.edu/library/jlsde/jlsde1.2.html, June, 1998.

Fair Use for Faculty-created Multimedia, 6 Info. Comm. Tech. L. 153-73 (1997).

Is Coursepack Copying Fair Use?, 7 Info. Outlook 36-39 (1997).

The White Paper, Fair Use, Libraries and Educational Institutions, 31 Serials Libr. 211-20 (1997).

Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials in the Practice of Law, N. C. State Bar J. 1225 (1996).

Libraries, Educational Institutions, and Copyright Proprietors: The First Collision on the Information Highway, 22 J. of Acad. Librarianship 337-44 (1996).

Women as Directors of Academic Law Libraries, in Laura N. Gasaway & Michael G. Chiorazzi, LAW LIBRARIANSHIP: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 497-553 (1996).

The American Association of Law Libraries: The People, the Profession and Their Association, co-published simultaneously in Timothy L. Coggins, THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEGAL INFORMATION ISSUES: SELECTED ESSAYS 3-20 (1996) and Laura N. Gasaway & Michael G. Chiorazzi, LAW LIBRARIANSHIP: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 289-307 (1996).

Fair Use in the NII: What Libraries and Educational Institutions Seek, in Timothy L. Coggins, THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEGAL INFORMATION ISSUES: SELECTED ESSAYS 41-46 (1996).

Universities, Libraries and Fair Use in the Digital Age, co-published simultaneously in A. Bruce Strauch, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES IN PUBLISHING 69-87 (1996) and 15 Acquisitions Libr. 69-87 (1996).

Changing Legal Education for the Better, 1 Desktop Colleague, April 1996, at 2.

Scholarly Publication and Copyright in Networked Electronic Publishing, 43 Libr. Trends 677-98 (1995).

Women at UNC and in the Practice of Law, 73 N.C. L. Rev. 705-24 (1995).

Texaco Appeal Decided, 7 Against the Grain, Feb. 1995, at 1829.

Serials 2020, 24 Serials Libr. 63-7 (1994).

Document Delivery, 14 Computers in Librs., May, 1994, at 25-32.

What the Texaco Decision May Portend for Libraries, 36 NFAIS, Feb. 1994, at 1728.

Photocopying Ruling Affects For-Profit Sector, 19 Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, December/January 1993, at 1122.