Abstract
This is the transcript from a symposium on copyright exceptions for libraries and section 108 reform done in cooperation with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Session 1: The Legal Landscape
This is the transcript from a symposium on copyright exceptions for libraries and section 108 reform done in cooperation with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Maria A Pallante is Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office. She oversees the nation’s copyright registration system and a variety of domestic and international policy activities. She was appointed on June 1, 2011, after serving four years as Associate Register and Deputy General Counsel, respectively. From 1999-2007, Ms. Pallante was intellectual property counsel for the worldwide Guggenheim Museums, working on legal and business issues related to contemporary art and architecture, global publishing, and product development. A graduate of the George Washington University Law School, she previously worked for two authors’ organizations in addition to private practice
Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) is the Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She teaches courses in Advanced Copyright Law, Art Law and Cyberspace Law. She obtained her B.A. and M.L.S. degrees from Texas Woman’s University and her J.D. degree from the University of Houston. Prior to coming to Chapel Hill, she was Director of the Law Library at the University of Oklahoma and at the University of Houston. Lolly is a past president of the American Association of Law Libraries and served as co-chair of the Section 108 Study Group for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the Copyright Office.
Shira Perlmutter is the Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the USPTO. Before joining the USPTO, Ms. Perlmutter was Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Prior to that, she held the position of Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Time Warner. Ms. Perlmutter previously worked at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva as a consultant on copyright issues involved in electronic commerce. In 1995, she was appointed as the first Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. She was the copyright consultant to the Clinton Administration’s Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure in 1994-95. Ms. Perlmutter is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at Oxford University, and a lecturer at King’s College, University of London. Ms. Perlmutter received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard S. Rudick retired as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of John Wiley and Sons in 2004. He has worked in the publishing industry as a lawyer since 1970, with Random House, WW Norton, and Xerox Corporation, before joining Wiley in 1978. Currently he is Vice President and Chair of the Copyright Committee of the International Publishers Association, and is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center. He received his Law degree from Yale in 1964, and is a graduate of Middlebury College