About Our Speakers

Pat Aufderheide
Professor and Director, Center for Social Media, School of Communication, American University

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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Jonathan Band
Founder, Jonathan Band, PLLC

Jonathan Band established his own law firm in May, 2005. From 1985 to 2005, Mr. Band worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a partner. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and California and before the U.S. Supreme Court and several Circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Mr. Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the DMCA; database protection legislation; the UCITA; and other federal and state statutes relating to copyrights, counterfeiting, privacy, spam, spyware, cybersecurity, gambling, and indecency. He has also worked on the WIPO's Copyright Treaty; the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention and Hate Speech Protocol; the Hague Convention on Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements; and several free trade agreements. Mr. Band counsels clients on the scope of copyright protection for computer programs; the DMCA’s safe harbors for ISPs and its prohibition on the circumvention of access and copy control technology; the protection of online databases; and other complex intellectual property issues. Mr. Band has written extensively and presents widely on intellectual property and electronic commerce matters, and he has been an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at numerous law schools. Mr. Band serves on numerous professional boards, committees, and associations. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Julia Blixrud
Assistant Director, Public Programs, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC); Assistant Executive Director, External Relations, Assocation of Research Libraries (ARL)

Julia Blixrud has been with the Association of Research Libraries since December 1996 and provides staff support to several ARL programs with external activities: Research, Teaching, and Learning; Leadership Development; Statistics and Measurement; and Scholarly Communication. Julia represents the Association at national and international meetings and events, provides advice for ARL publications and communications, and conducts special projects. She is staff to the Association's Membership Committee and works with the Visiting Program Officer program. Julia has served as a faculty member for ARL's former Office of Leadership and Management Services, facilitating institutes on the culture of assessment, project management, facilitation, and leadership and management as well as providing consulting services for institutional planning and assessment. In addition to her ARL duties, Julia is the Assistant Director for Public Programs for SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Serving in that capacity since August 1999, she is implementing a grassroots educational and advocacy program directed to scientists and scholars, librarians, and society publishers. Julia's 30-year career in the library community has included positions at CAPCON and MINITEX library networks, the Council on Library Resources, and the Library of Congress. Her interests and professional activities have included cooperative programs, serials, technical standards, library assessment, intellectual property, and scholarly communication. She has a BA in library science and Scandinavian studies from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and an MA in library science from the University of Minnesota.

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Kimberly Bonner
Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC

Ms. Bonner is the Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment 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” 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. Ms. Bonner received both her B.A. degree in Foreign Affairs and her J.D. from the University of Virginia. 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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James Boyle
Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law;
Co-Founder, Center for the Study of the Public Domain

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. He is the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. He writes widely on issues of intellectual property, internet regulation and legal theory. He is one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons, which is working to facilitate the free availability of art, scholarship, and cultural materials by developing innovative, machine-readable licenses that individuals and institutions can attach to their work, and of Science Commons, which aims to expand the Creative Commons mission into the realm of scientific and technical data. He is also a member of the academic advisory boards of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, the Connexions open-source courseware project, and of Public Knowledge. He recently started writing as an online columnist for the Financial Times' New Economy Policy Forum.

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Mariann Burright
Librarian for the School of Public Health, University of Maryland Libraries

Mariann Burright has been with the University of Maryland Libraries since 1999 as librarian for the life sciences, and more recently as the librarian for the School of Public Health. Through many years of collection management work, she is interested in, and has published on the topics of scholarly electronic publishing and information use of scientific authors. She will join the Northwestern University Library in July 2008 as the Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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William Carney
Content Manager, Business Development, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)

William Carney is Content Manager, Business Development, OCLC, Inc. During his 18 years with OCLC, he has managed and worked on a variety of programs and products primarily related to cataloging and metadata services. He is currently managing the development of the OCLC Registry of Copyright Evidence pilot project, a collaborative effort designed to assist libraries and other organizations to discover, create and share evidence about the copyright status of items described in WorldCat. Mr. Carney has spoken at many conferences, most recently at the LIBER and EBLIDA sponsored workshop, Digitization of Library Material in Europe held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. His paper, “Automating Registration of Digital Preservation Copies: The Place of Registries in the Digitization Workflow,” will be published in the next issue of LIBER Quarterly The Journal of European Research Libraries. Mr. Carney received his B.S. degree in Business Administration - Marketing from The Ohio State University in 1984.

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Laura Gasaway
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Laura Gasaway joined the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law 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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Karla Hahn
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, Association for Research Libraries (ARL)

Karla L. Hahn is the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association for Research Libraries (ARL). As Director of OSC, Karla is instrumental in creatively defining and advancing the portfolio for ARL’s scholarly communication program. This program is shaped by the new ARL Strategic Plan that calls for ARL to give priority to being a leader in the development of effective, extensible, sustainable, and economically viable models of scholarly communication that provide barrier-free access to quality information in support of teaching, learning, research, and service to the community. Prior to joining ARL, Hahn was the Collection Management Team Leader for the University of Maryland Libraries. She has worked previously at the Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Michigan Libraries. Hahn has a Ph.D from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies (writing on “Electronic Journals as Innovations: A Study of Author and Editor Early Adopters”), an M.L.S. from Syracuse University, an M.S. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. in Biology and Geology from Wittenberg University. Her writings include the book, Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context. Hahn has also authored numerous articles.

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Kenneth Hamma
Executive Director for Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust

Kenneth Hamma is Executive Director for Digital Policy at the J. Paul Getty Trust. He oversees the management of the Getty Trust website, www.getty.edu, as well as strategic planning for information management across all Getty programs including the Museum, the Research Institute, the Conservation Institute and the Foundation. He currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information; member of the advisory council for RLG Programs of OCLC; director of the Museum Domain Management Association, the sponsor of the museum TLD; and member of the advisory board of the American Association of Museum’s Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal. He has previously served as board member for the Art Museum Image Consortium, the Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information, and the National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage. He has also served as a member of the User Advisory Board for Gallery Systems and as advisor to EU project Artiste and board member for EU project musEnic. He was from 1996 to 2004 Assistant Director and from 1987 to 1996 Associate Curator of Antiquities at the Getty Museum. Prior to joining the Getty Museum, he was Associate Professor of Greek and Roman archaeology and art history at the University of Southern California and Associate Director of the Princeton Archaeological Expedition to Marion, Cyprus.

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Georgia Harper
Scholarly Communications Advisor, University of Texas at Austin Libraries

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 created 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's Law School with a J.D. She is currently pursuing a degree in Information Science from UT Austin. Ms. Harper is also the 2006-2008 Intellectual Property Scholar for the Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC and is the host of the CIP's blog—©ollectanea: Collected perspectives on copyright.

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Paul Jaeger
Director, Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government and Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

Paul Jaeger is Director of the Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government and an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland. His teaching and research focus on the ways in which law and public policy shape access to information in public forums, such as the Internet, libraries, education, and e-government. He received his doctorate at the College of Information at Florida State University. His research interests include e-government and information services for persons with disabilities. His dissertation, entitled "Multi-method evaluation of U.S. federal electronic government websites in terms of accessibility for persons with disabilities," studies accessible web design. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, Jaeger was involved with the Information Use Management and Policy Institute at FSU, where he was the Manager for Research Development. In addition to a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, Jaeger holds a Master of Education and a Juris Doctor.

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Laurence Johnson
Chief Executive Officer, New Media Consortium

Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 250 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression. He is an acknowledged expert on the effective application of new media in many contexts, and has worked extensively to build common ground among museums and universities across North America and in more than a dozen other countries. He is the author a number of important books on the topic, and dozens of monographs, chapters, and articles exploring emerging trends and issues related to that work. In his current post, Dr. Johnson routinely brings visionaries and thought leaders from across the globe together to define and explore new ways of thinking about and using technology, and to examine emerging trends and issues. The NMC’s annual Horizon Report has become one of the leading tools used by senior executives in universities and museums to set priorities for technology planning. NMC summits and large-scale projects have helped set the agenda for topics such as visual literacy, learning objects, educational gaming, the future of scholarship, and the new web. Recent examples are the NMC’s high-profile experimental campus in the virtual world of Second Life and its leadership role in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Having served as president and senior executive at institutions in both the higher education and not-for-profit realms, Dr. Johnson has more than 25 years of experience leading high-profile, high-stakes projects. His educational background includes an MBA in Finance and a Ph.D. in Education that focused on research and evaluation. Among many other recognitions, Dr. Johnson has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate by the University of Texas at Austin.

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Greg Lastowka
Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Law - Camden

Professor Lastowka teaches courses in the laws of property, intellectual property, and the regulation of technology. He earned his B.A. summa cum laude at Yale College in 1991. In 1994, he entered the United States Peace Corps, serving for two years in the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan. He earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 2000, where he was a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar, a member of the Raven Society, a fellow of the Society of Fellows, and an Article Editor on the Virginia Law Review. Following graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before joining the faculty in 2004, he practiced intellectual property and technology litigation at Dechert LLP. During Spring 2007 he was a visiting professor at the University of Graz, Austria. In 2005-2006, he was a fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis, co-leading a working group with Professor Goodman on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual property. Professor Lastowka has been quoted with regard to Internet law issues by publications such as Nature, The Washington Post, USA Today, Wired, and The National Law Journal. His current research projects include articles on computer fraud, trademark law, and online communities.

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Arnold Lutzker
Attorney, Lutzker & Lutzker LLP

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 and 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. Mr. Lutzker has special expertise in the trademark and copyright issues that surround new media, intellectual property policy, and education. His 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 DMCA, CTE 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 major U.S. Supreme Court cases. He is the author of three books: Content Rights for the Creative Professional: Copyrights and Trademarks in a Digital Age (2002); Copyrights and Trademarks for Media Professionals (1997); and Legal Problems in Broadcasting (1974). He is also the author of a video, Copyrights: The Internet, Multimedia and the Law ( 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 (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (cum laude).

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Mary Madden
Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project

Mary Madden has been with PIP since the spring of 2002. She is the lead author of "Artists, Musicians and the Internet," a report that examines artists' experiences with the internet and their attitudes towards copyright issues online. Her research areas at PIP include: music and the Internet, intellectual property issues online, teens and communication technology, college students and the internet, online communities, and demographic trends in online pursuits. Her interest in the digital music debate is fueled by her graduate research and her prior experiences working in music promotion and concert production. Mary has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others, regarding her research. She holds an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and a B.A. in English from The University of Florida.

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Oliver Metzger
Policy Planning Advisor, Office of Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office

Oliver Metzger is a Policy Planning Advisor in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the United States Copyright Office. He has worked at the Copyright Office since 2004, and currently is responsible for the Middle East and Africa regions there. He advises Congress and federal agencies on a variety of foreign and domestic copyright issues, and interacts with counterparts in foreign governments on U.S. copyright policy issues. He was involved in every phase of the Copyright Office's study on orphan works, and participated in the public roundtables and the drafting of the Office's Report. Prior to working at the Copyright Office, Mr. Metzger was a civil litigation attorney practicing in New York City for seven years, at the firms of Sullivan & Cromwell and Morrison & Foerster. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas and an A.B. from Dartmouth College. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Lateef Mtima
Professor of Law & Founder/Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), Howard University School of Law

Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice at the Howard University School of Law. After graduating with honors from Amherst College, Prof. Mtima received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. Admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars, Prof. Mtima practiced with Coudert Brothers in New York and San Francisco, and was later Of Counsel to the Philadelphia firm of Klehr, Harrison. A member of the HUSL law faculty since 1998, Prof. Mtima teaches and writes in the areas of bankruptcy and debtors and creditors’ rights, commercial law, torts, and intellectual property law, with emphases in the areas of software and Internet issues, and the Digital Divide. Prof. Mtima serves as the Chair of the Howard University Intellectual Property Committee, which implements the University’s technology transfer and intellectual property policy, and is also a member of the Advisory Board for the BNA Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal.

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Michael Neuman
Senior Associate for Scholarly Information Initiatives, Georgetown University

In his current role, Mike Neuman advances the enterprise-wide integration of academic systems and repositories by writing grant proposals, collaborating on technology policy, advising on copyright issues, and participating in special projects. Previously, Mike served for two years as Interim Associate University Librarian for Digital Services and Technology Policy at Lauinger Library and, prior to that, as UIS Program Director for Library-IT Collaborations. Then and now, he promotes joint efforts among UIS, the University's libraries, and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS). Long-term interests include content repositories, Shibboleth authentication and authorization, teaching and learning with technology, and copyright issues such as the TEACH Act. In the early years of University Information Services, Mike directed the Research, Curriculum, and Development Group that provided discipline-specific support for faculty. Upon first coming to Georgetown in 1988, he created the Center for Text and Technology that catalogued electronic texts around the world and produced electronic versions of German philosophy texts bundled with text-analysis tools. In a previous life Mike was Professor of English at Capital University in Columbus, where he served as department chair and director of the Honors Program. While at Capital, he served as the institution’s first Director of Academic Computing, and he founded the Academic Computing and Development Center. He received a B.A. from Villanova University, an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Michigan. Among his professional activities, Mike has participated in the Frye Leadership Institute, and he has served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Chair of the Modern Language Association's Discussion Group in Computer Studies in Language and Literature, and a member of the task force that directed production of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. Mike remains active in EDUCAUSE and the Coalition for Networked Information.

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Jon Orwant
Engineering Manager, Google Book Search, Google, Inc.

Jon Orwant is an engineering manager at Google in the Boston office, where he leads a team working on Book Search. He received his PhD from MIT in 1999, becoming CTO of O'Reilly and then director of research at France Telecom before joining Google. He's the author of several programming books, including the bestselling Programming Perl. He also created the Internet Quiz Show, taught game design at MIT, and invented the world's first Internet stock-picking game. In 2004 he received the White Camel Lifetime Achievement award for contributions to Perl.

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Patrick Ross
Executive Director, Copyright Alliance

Patrick Ross is executive director of the Copyright Alliance, a grass-roots coalition of artists, producers and distributors from across the copyright spectrum. Prior to joining the Copyright Alliance he was a senior fellow with The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a free-market think tank in Washington, D.C. Ross focused on intellectual property issues for PFF’sPatrick Ross Image Center for the Study of Digital Property (IPcentral.info), specifically the rights of artists. He was also PFF’s vice president for communications and external affairs. Ross spent a decade as a journalist covering the growth of the Internet. Most of that time was spent writing for Communications Daily and its sister publication Washington Internet Daily, the latter of which he managed. He also was the first Washington bureau chief for CNET News.com. Prior to writing for those publications he spent six years as a self-employed freelance reporter and editor. A nine-time award winner for investigative journalism, Ross has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Republic, Red Herring, and Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, and has been distributed by the Associated Press. In the late 1980s Ross worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. He studied international relations as an undergraduate at Pomona College and as a graduate student at Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College.

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Carrie Russell
Copyright Specialist, Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association

Carrie Russell is Copyright Specialist for the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy. Carrie's responsibilities include copyright policy, research and education, and fair use advocacy. Since her appointment to the OITP in July 1999, Carrie launched numerous copyright education projects for the Association including e-mail tutorials on copyright basics, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), and licensing, and a distance education copyright course for practicing librarians. She has given numerous copyright workshops and fair use advocacy presentations across the country. Carrie is also author of Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians and The School Library Journal 's monthly copyright column. She is a recipient of the American Library Association Staff Achievement Award of 2001. Before joining the staff of the Office for Information Technology Policy, Carrie Russell was the University of Arizona's Copyright Librarian. At the University of Arizona, Carrie consulted with faculty regarding curriculum related copyright issues, informed the campus community about pending copyright legislation, and developed an advocacy program for faculty on scholarly communication and alternative publishing models. Carrie earned a master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Arizona.

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Robert Samors
Associcate Vice President for Research and Science Policy & Director of Technology Policy, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)

Robert J. (Bob) Samors currently serves as Associate Vice President for Research and Science Policy, and Director of Information Technology at the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASLUGC, A Public University Association). In that position, Samors is the lead representative for NASULGC on information technology policy. In addition, Samors works closely with NASULGC’s Congressional Affairs staff on Federal technology policy issues in Congress and the Executive Branch. Prior to joining NASULGC, Samors served for seven years as the Associate Vice President for Federal Relations for the University of North Carolina system, opening the UNC Washington Office in April 1999. In that capacity, Samors focused on the priorities of the UNC system, providing strategic advice and direct assistance to the 16 constituent campuses and five affiliate organizations in their dealings with Congress and the Executive Branch. He also served as the lead advocate for the UNC Board of Governors on Federal higher education and research policy/funding issues and positioned the university as a leader in the Washington-based higher education community. Samors has been working in Washington for more than 20 years in a variety of positions with a Congressional focus. Prior to joining UNC, he served as the Assistant Vice President for Research in the University of Michigan Washington office. Samors also has worked for APCO Worldwide (formerly APCO Associates), a Washington consulting firm, and Senator Larry Pressler (R-SD). He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A in Economics from Brown University.

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Stuart Shieber
Professor of Computer Science & Director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University

Stuart Shieber is the James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. Shieber received an AB in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1989. He was given a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, and was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993, one of only thirty in the country in all areas of science and engineering. At Harvard, he has been awarded two honorary chairs: the John L. Loeb Associate Professorship in Natural Sciences in 1993 and the Harvard College Professorship in 2001. He was named a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2004.

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Gigi Sohn
President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge

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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Dru Zuretti
Client Relationship and Education Manager, Copyright Clearance Center

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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