| David Balto is a Senior Fellow at American Progress focusing on competition policy, intellectual property law, and health care. He has over 20 years of experience as an antitrust attorney in the private sector, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission. He is nationally known for his expertise in competition policy in high-tech industries, semiconductors, health care, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, media, and financial services. He regularly provides advice on mergers, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. From 1995 to 2001 he was the policy director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky. In these leadership roles Mr. Balto was a senior advisor in developing competition policy and identifying key enforcement initiatives. He helped draft guidelines involving intellectual property, joint ventures, and health care and played a key role in several litigated cases. He is the only person to twice win the FTC’s award for outstanding scholarship, and also won the FTC's award for distinguished service, the highest award given a staff attorney. Mr. Balto has authored more than 60 articles, and he regularly testifies before Congress, state legislatures, the FTC, and DOJ. He has authored numerous amicus briefs for consumer groups in seminal antitrust cases. (more info)
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| 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. (more info)
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| John Bertot is Professor and Director of the Center for Library & Information Innovation in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of public library use of and involvement with the Internet, planning and evaluating library services (with an emphasis on networked services and resources), management of electronic network-based information, development and implementation of electronic network performance measures and statistics (e-metrics), telecommunications and information policy development (with an emphasis on electronic network-based issues), information management (including information resources management for effective and efficient government services delivery, and e-government service planning, delivery, and evaluation. Professor Bertot also serves as editor for Government Information Quarterly and Library Quarterly and sits on the editorial board for Performance Measurement and
Metrics: The International Journal for Library and Information Services. He also serves on the board of the Digital Government Society of North America, chairs the Library Broadband Capacity Task Force of the American Library Association, Office of Information Technology Policy, and he sits on the E-Government Services Ad Hoc Subcommittee of the American Library Association, Committee on Legislation. He received an M.A. in Communication from the University at Albany (SUNY) and his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. (more info)
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| Kimberly Bonner is the Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC, in which capacity she develops educational programming, conducts research and writes on intellectual property issues in the digital environment. The focus of the Center's programming is information use and policy issues that impact quality delivery of digital distance education programs. She comes from a legal background and was practicing law for 4 years prior to coming to UMUC. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1996 and then clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge W. Louis Sands in the Middle District of Georgia for two years, after which she moved to Washington, DC, to become a corporate litigator at the lawfirm of Howrey, Simon, Arnold and White, LLP. |
| Jim Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes specializing in representation of technology companies on intellectual property, entertainment content licensing, communications and government policy matters. Mr. Burger joined the firm's Media, Information and Technologies group in January, 1997. Prior to that, Mr. Burger was at Apple Computer for nine years in a variety of national and international assignments, including being a Senior Director in Apple's Law Department. In addition, from 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council's Proprietary Rights Committee. Mr. Burger has worked extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation, particularly as affecting the Internet. Mr. Burger has represented technology companies dealing with digital content and has also participated in resolving such complex issues as DVD copy protection and digital download of music. In addition, he has been engaged in such matters as the efforts to amend copyright law. Mr. Burger received his Bachelors (with Honors), Masters and Law (cum laude) degrees from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the NYU Law Journal. For seven years, he was an adjunct professor at University of Virginia Law School, where he taught Advanced Administrative law. (more info)
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| Brandon Butler is the Director of Public Policy Initiatives at ARL. He's been at ARL since September 2009, and in that time has worked on issues ranging from network neutrality to the PATRIOT Act. In the copyright area, Brandon has worked on the Google Books Settlement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, and a number of emerging fair use issues. Brandon is a principle investigator for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to formulate a code of best practices in fair use for college and research libraries. Before coming to ARL, Brandon was an associate in the Media and Information Technologies practice group at the law firm Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he worked on copyright issues, trademark prosecution, and corporate transactions involving intellectual property. Brandon received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas, and his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. |
| Rick Chessen is Senior Vice President of Law and
Regulatory Policy at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). In that role, he manages the NCTA Legal Department and the
Association’s relationship with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Chessen joined NCTA in 2009. He is a veteran regulatory attorney and
previously had served with distinction in several roles at the FCC. He joined the Commission in 1994 as a senior attorney in the Cable Services Bureau. He rose to become Acting Chief of Staff of the Commission in early 2009 during the acting chairmanship of Commissioner Michael Copps. Following the confirmation of Julius Genachowski as FCC Chairman, Chessen remained on the staff of Commissioner Copps as Senior Legal Advisor. During his time at the Commission, Chessen also served as Senior Legal Advisor to former Commissioner Gloria Tristani; Associate Bureau Chief for the Mass Media Bureau; Chair of the Digital Television Task Force; and
Associate Bureau Chief for the Media Bureau. Chessen also has worked in private enterprise and practiced law at several law firms. He served as Vice President–Policy at RespondTV; Partner in Sheppard Mullin Hampton & Richter, LLP; Associate at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal; and Associate at Isham, Lincoln & Beale. Chessen holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. (more info)
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| Markham Erickson is a founding partner of Holch & Erickson LLP, where he represents clients before federal regulatory agencies, courts, and the U.S. Congress. His practice involves engagement on complex issues relating to the Internet, new technologies, and nascent industries. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Mr. Erickson helped to write and negotiate many of the federal laws that govern e-commerce, technology, and the use of the Internet, including the CAN-SPAM Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the Communications Decency Act. In addition, Mr. Erickson has represented the U.S. government before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on matters relating to speech and content regulation on the Internet. He serves as lead counsel to many major Internet and technology companies in the Open Internet Coalition, a coalition representing consumers, grassroots organizations, and Internet and technology companies advocating for “network neutrality.” He recently authored the Coalition’s extensive docket filing in the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in this area. He also serves as Executive Director to NetCoalition, a coalition of Internet companies, which involves work to promote a healthy legal environment for Internet business models before courts, administrative agencies, and the U.S. Congress. In addition, Mr. Erickson routinely represents start-up companies and technology firms on a variety of matters before the Department of Justice, the FTC, FCC, and the U.S. Congress. He has written extensively on issues relating to law and technology, taught classes on Internet-related issues, has been quoted extensively in major publications, and has appeared on television to explain his clients’ positions on high profile law and technology issues. Mr. Erickson received a B.A. in English Literature from Wheaton College (IL) and a J.D., with honors, from George Washington University Law School. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar. He is a member of the American Bar Association, where he serves on a variety of intellectual property and technology subcommittees. (more info)
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| David Farber is considered by many to be the grandfather of the Internet and is recognized for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. Dr. Farber is currently Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University holding secondary appointments in the Heinz College and the Engineering Public Policy Group. He graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology and worked for eleven years at Bell Laboratories, where he helped design the first electronic switching system and the programming language SNOBOL. He subsequently held industry positions at the Rand Corporation and Scientific Data Systems, followed by academic positions at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Delaware. At Irvine his research work was focused on creating the world's first operational Distributed Computer System. While at Delaware, he helped conceive and organize the major American research networks CSNET, NSFNet, and the National Research and Education Network (NREN). He helped create the NSF/DARPA-funded Gigabit Network Test bed Initiative. Dr. Farber subsequently was appointed Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania where he also held appointments as Professor at the Wharton School of Business and as a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School for Communication. He also served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications Commission (2000–2001). Dr. Farber currently serves on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called 'Hyperwords'. He also serves on a number of other industrial advisory and management boards, as well on boards for the Center for Democracy and Technology, EPIC, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (more info)
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| Donna Ferullo is the Director of the University Copyright Office at Purdue University and is also Associate Professor of Library Science. Ms. Ferullo advises the University on copyright compliance issues and is responsible for educating the Purdue University community on their rights and responsibilities under the copyright law.
Ms. Ferullo holds a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School; a M.L.I.S. from the University of Maryland; and a B.A. in Communications from Boston College. Ms. Ferullo is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar.
Ms. Ferullo has published articles and given presentations to many groups on copyright and its impact on higher education and libraries.
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| Olga Francois is Assistant Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC and also teaches for the UMUC School of Undergraduate
Studies. She received her Bachelors from Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts
and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught research methods, Library Instruction and Information Competency
abilities and objectives at Hunter College (City University of New York),
John Jay College (City University of New York), Borough of Manhattan Community
College and Pierce College in Washington State. |
| Jim Gibson is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond School of Law. Jim Gibson’s research focuses on the effect of new technologies on traditional legal constructs, the formation and breadth of entitlements in intellectual property law and elsewhere, and the ways in which practice and custom in the real world inform legal doctrine. Gibson is currently an associate law professor at the University of Richmond, where he founded the law school’s Intellectual Property Institute. Before entering academia, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, served on the staff of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and was a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.). (more info)
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| David Green is Vice-President for Public Policy in NBC Universal’s Washington
Government Relations Office, where he focuses on public policy issues
involving the protection of digital content. Before joining NBC
Universal in April of 2005, Mr. Green was the Vice President and
Counsel for Technology and New Media for the Motion Picture Association
of America, where he handled similar public policy issues for the major
U.S. motion picture studios. Prior to joining the MPAA in May 2003, Mr.
Green worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. There, he served as
the Principal Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual
Property Section of the Criminal Division, where he helped coordinate
the national enforcement of criminal laws protecting against computer
hacking and intellectual property theft. Before that, Mr. Green
prosecuted public corruption cases as Senior Litigation Counsel in the
Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section. Mr. Green also worked for
several years as an associate with the law firm of Arnold & Porter,
where he was involved in litigation and in legislative work, including
intellectual property protection. Mr. Green graduated from Oberlin
College with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He received his Juris
Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School,
and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis H. Pollak in Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.
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| Jim Griffin is Managing Director of OneHouse LLC, dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art. In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C. Jim is co-founder of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets for discussion-oriented meals in cities around the world, electronically linked by the Pho mailing list. Pho's many thousands of readers enjoy dialogue on the digital delivery of art and the new economy in music, movies, books and all media. Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment, as well as speaking at conferences and lecturing annually at business schools. He also serves as an expert witness in digital entertainment. In addition to work with music, his expertise includes wireless work in Europe, speaking on wireless issues around the world, ranging from music conferences to parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.
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 | Georgia 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 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. (more info)
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| Peggy Hoon is North Carolina State University’s Special Assistant to the Provost for Copyright Administration. She serves as the primary resource for faculty and staff seeking help for any copyright related questions attendant to scholarship, teaching, and learning. She is also charged with raising copyright awareness through educational materials, an extensive web site, individual consultations, and presentations on campus. Additionally, she is responsible for copyright ownership questions, working closely with the University Copyright Committee, and holds the authority to grant permission to use NC State University copyrighted materials. Hoon has spoken nationally for the past decade on copyright issues, primarily to higher education audiences. As the Association of Research Libraries first Visiting Scholar for Campus Copyright and Intellectual Property, she headed the “Know Your Copyrights” educational initiative. Due to her advocacy on behalf of copyright users and in support of fair use, she is the American Library Association’s 2008 recipient of the L. Ray Patterson Award in Support of Users’ Rights. She holds both a J.D. and a B.S. in nursing. (more info)
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 | Peter Jaszi is faculty director of the
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and professor of law
in the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington,
DC.. 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). Professor Jaszi received his A.B from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. (more info)
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| Tomas Lipinski is Co-Director and Associate Professor at the Center for Information Policy Research and Director of the M.L.I.S. degree program in the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Professor Lipinski currently teaches, researches and speaks frequently
on various topics within the areas of information law and policy,
especially copyright, privacy and censorship issues in education and
library environments. He has worked in a variety of legal settings including the private, public and non-profit sectors. He has taught at the American Institute for Paralegal Studies and at Syracuse University College of Law. In summers he is a visiting faculty member at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign theaching courses on Information Policy and Legal Issues for Librarians. Recent monographs include "The Library's Legal Answer Book" (2003), "Lipinski, Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom" (2005), and The Complete Copyright Liability Handbook for Librarians and Educators (2006). Current projects include a new book on licensing and a second edition of the Answer Book. After completing his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Marquette University Law
School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he received the Master of Laws (LL.M.)
from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and the Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (more info)
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| 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 also serves as counsel to the Association for Information Media and Equipment (AIME). 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 is a graduate of City College of New York (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (cum laude). (more info)
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| 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. (more info)
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| Maria Pallante is Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office. Pallante brings extensive experience to the position, having worked as a copyright lawyer for more than 18 years in Washington, D.C. and New York City, in both the public and private sectors. Prior to being named Associate Register, beginning in 2007, she served as Deputy General Counsel of the Copyright Office, where she helped shape a wide range of domestic and international copyright issues. She was been the office’s lead counsel on orphan works legislation, working with stakeholders and advising key offices of the Senate and House on related issues. She worked from 1996-1997 as a policy planner in the office she currently heads. From 1999-2006, Pallante served as the chief intellectual property counsel for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, where she was responsible for the auditing, enforcement and licensing of intellectual property assets. Pallante began her legal career in copyright in 1991 as a staff attorney with the Authors Guild, and later served as Executive Director of the National Writers Union, where she supervised the electronic rights case, Tasini v. the New York Times. She was associated with the
D.C. law firm and literary agency of Lichtman, Trister, Singer & Ross, and completed a federal clerkship in administrative law for Associate Chief Judge G. Marvin Bober at the U.S. Department of Labor. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law
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 | William Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google Inc. He previously
served as copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives,
Committee on the Judiciary, a Policy Planning Advisor to the Register
of Copyrights, a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Georgetown University, and in the private practice of law. He
is the most prolific scholar of copyright in history, including being
the author of an eight-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled Patry on Copyright and a separate treatise on the
fair use doctrine.
Mr. Patry earned his B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University and his J.D. from the University of Houston. He was admitted to the bar in Texas, the District of Columbia, and New York.
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| Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney and also the President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, a public interest group focused on citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture. Gigi serves as PK's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. She is frequently quoted in and has been published in major news media publications, as well as in trade and local press, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. 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 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 on the advisory board of the Future of Music Coalition and the Center for Public Integrity's "Well Connected" Telecommunications Project. Gigi served on the D.C. 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. (more info)
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| Rebecca Tushnet is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia and Associate Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court. Professor Tushnet spent two years as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, DC, specializing in intellectual property. She taught for two years at the NYU School of Law before joining the faculty at Georgetown, where she teaches intellectual property, advertising law, and First Amendment law.
Her work currently focuses on the relationship between the First Amendment and false advertising law. She has also advised and represented several fan fiction websites in disputes with copyright and trademark owners, and she is a member of the board of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks. She is also an expert on the law of engagement rings. Tushnet received her undergraduate degree, with honors, from Harvard University and her law degree from Yale University.
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| David Van Taylor is Vice President of Lumiere Productions, Inc.. He joined Lumiere as Series Producer of With God On Our Side. His theatrical feature A Perfect Candidate was nominated for an Emmy. Van Taylor has written and directed for PBS, HBO, Discovery, Court TV, Logo, MTV and public radio's This American Life. His first film, Dream Deceivers, was honored by the International Documentary Association. He was Executive Producer of Ghosts Of Attica, which was awarded a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton. Van Taylor graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Sociology and Afro-American Studies, and then taught science in a New York City public school.
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| Madelyn Wessel is Associate General Counsel at the University of Virginia, focusing on intellectual property, copyright, licensing, technology, and special issues arising in the area of libraries and digital scholarship. She has lectured on copyright, digital responsibilities, legal and policy frameworks for sustaining digital scholarship, fair use and censorship in recent years to groups as diverse as the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Art Libraries Society of North America, College and University Auditors, Digital Library Federation, Music Library Association, Educause, and the Visual Resources Association. Ms. Wessel teaches the seminar in Legal Issues in Higher Education at the University of Virginia's Graduate School of Education. She has been admitted to practice in Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Oregon. Ms. Wessel holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Boston University.
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| Steve Worona is Director of Policy and Networking Programs at EDUCAUSE, and the Founding Director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law. He is also the producer and host of “EDUCAUSE Live!”, a Webcast featuring conversations with leaders of information technology in higher education. During his 35-year career at Cornell University, Worona developed CUinfo (the first Campus-Wide Information System) and Dear Uncle Ezra (the first online counseling service). He taught courses in Cornell’s Computer Science Department and Graduate School of Management, founded Cornell’s Computer Policy and Law Program, and managed award-winning projects in electronic publishing, digital libraries, programming languages, and factory automation. He has lectured internationally on a wide range of topics, focusing most recently on the impact of technology on our social and legal system. At EDUCAUSE, he helps coordinate programs in such areas as leading-edge authentication systems, intellectual property, privacy, computer and network security, and management of the .EDU top-level Internet domain. Worona holds degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science from Cornell.
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