Intellectual Property in Academia 2009-2010
About the Instructors
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").
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.
Peggy Hoon, J.D.
Workshop: Licensing Digital Course 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.
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.
Steven 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.
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.
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.