Contributors

The following is an alphabetical list of all the individuals who contributed to this project.

Principal Contributors

William Fisher

William Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993).

Urs Gasser

Urs Gasser is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Executive Director. Before joining the Berkman Center in this capacity, he was Associate Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), where he led the Research Center for Information Law as Faculty Director. Before joining the St. Gallen faculty, Urs Gasser spent three years as a research and teaching fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed Faculty Fellow in 2005. At the Berkman Center, he was the lead fellow on the Digital Media Project, a multi-disciplinary research project aimed at exploring the transition from offline/analog to online/digital media. He also initiated and chaired the Harvard-Yale-Cyberscholar Working Group, and was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School in the 2003/04 academic year. His website is here.

Kimberley Isbell

Kimberley Isbell is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society working as a staff attorney with the Citizen Media Law Project. She received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2000, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Record and President of the HLS Civil Liberties Union. Prior to joining the Berkman Center, she was an associate at law firms in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia. While in private practice, Kimberley specialized in many aspects of domestic and international intellectual property and technology counseling, prosecution and litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property, technology, Internet and e-commerce licenses and agreements; domain name disputes; clearance, registration and management of trademark assets; advertising review; promotions law; and litigation and dispute resolution related to intellectual property and technology, with an emphasis on trademark and copyright matters. Kimberley is the former chair of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section's Committee 205 – Trade Identity and Unfair Competition.

Colin Maclay

Colin Maclay is the Managing Director of the Berkman Center, where he is privileged to work in diverse capacities with its faculty, staff, fellows and extended community to realize its ambitious goals. His broad aim is to effectively and appropriately integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) with social and economic development, focusing on the changes Internet technologies foster in society, policy and institutions. Both as Co-founder of the Information Technologies Group at Harvard’s Center for International Development and at Berkman, Maclay’s research has paired hands-on multi stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends, challenges and opportunities for the integration of ICTs in developing world communities.

Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson is a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He is also an Associate at the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Counselor for Communications at MIT's Office of Admissions. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.A. in Critical Legal Studies. His research has focused on privacy in networked public with a general interest in the effect of digital environments on human decisions and behavior. He blogs at cpeterson.org.

Advisors

Copyright for Librarians - A Distance Learning Course is a project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries).

CONTACT

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay at the Berkman Center: mdulong at cyber.law.harvard.edu Teresa Hackett at eIFL: teresa.hackett at eifl.net

TEAM

Principal Investigator: Professor William Fisher, Harvard Law School, Faculty Director, Berkman Center

Project Director: Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Fellow, Berkman Center

eIFL-IP Programme Manager, eIFL.net: Teresa Hackett

Authors of the modules: Emily Cox, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, William Fisher, Inge Osman, David Scott, Dmitriy Tishyevich, Petroula Vantsiouri

Distance learning platforms: Andre Valle, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

Administration and management: Carey Andersen, Catherine Bracy, Colin Maclay, Carolina Rossini

Research assistants: Joe Bernardi, Emily Cox, April Kuehnhoff, Inge Osman, Thomas Margoni, David Riley, David Scott, Oleksiy Stolyarenko, Dmitriy Tishyevich, Andre Valle, Petroula Vantsiouri, Jessica Walch

Direction of the testing at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs: Janice Pilch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Susan Schnuer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ADVISORS

A workshop was conducted on 2008 April 17-18, with 26 experts in different fields advising on the course structure, methodology, content and sustainability.

Libraries: June Casey, Harvard Law School Library Mary Beth Clack, Harvard Widener Library Kim Dulin, Harvard Law School Library Laura Farwell Blake, Harvard Widener Library Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT Libraries Teresa Hackett, eIFL IP Manager Michael Hemment, Harvard College Library Claudia Holguin, Harvard University Archives Elisam Magara, East African School of Library and Information Science, Uganda Harry Martin, Harvard Law School John Palfrey, Berkman Center, Harvard Law School Susan Schnuer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Harvard University Archives & Open Collections Program

Copyright: Michael Carroll, Villanova University School of Law, Creative Commons Kenneth Crews, Columbia University Georgia Harper, University of Texas Gwen Hinze, Electronic Frontier Foundation Peter Jaszi, American University Washington College of Law Eddan Katz, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Yale Law School Ayo Kusamotu, Creative Commons Nigeria, One Laptop Per Child William McGeveran, University of Minnesota Law School

Distance education: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Moustapha Diack, Southern University Baton Rouge, MERLOT Africa Network Samuel Klein, One Laptop Per Child Ignasi Labastida, University of Barcelona Manon Ress, Knowledge Ecology International

Testing was conducted at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignon 2008 September 16th and October 1st by 18 librarians who contributed to the development of the course’s content and platforms:

Hugo Albarracin Barriga, Luis Angel Arango Library, Colombia Faina Bolkunova, Uzbek State Scientific Medical Library, Uzbekistan Phuc Van Bui, University of Danang, Vietnam Mi Soon Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea Goodluck Collins Enyiorji, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism, Nigeria Ahmad HajAli, An-Najah National University, Palestine Thanh My Ho, University of Danang, Vietnam Christian Yaw Kofi, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Yoriko Miyabe, Rikkyo University, Japan William Monroy, Luis Angel Arango Library, Colombia Mahmoud Subhi Ali Murrar, Birzeit University Library, Palestine Victor Ochieng, Community Library, Suna-Migori, Kenya Jeong-joo Park, Seoul National University Library, South Korea Thi Thu Nga Phan, University of Danang, Vietnam Mohamed Ghali, Rashed Mubarek, Arabian Gulf University Library, Bahrain Tamaki Seta, Health Science University, Japan Kazuyo Toya, Kobe University Library for Medical Science, Japan Andres Tamayo Arias, Comfenalco Public Library, Colombia