Contributors

Authors

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she leads research in copyright law and information science. She is designing a distance learning course on copyright for librarians in partnership with eIFL. She is also working on open access science and open data policy with Science Commons, and coordinating publications for Communia, the European thematic network on the digital public domain. She holds a doctorate in law from University Paris 2, with a dissertation on Â« Legal and technological regulation of networked information and creative works Â». She also holds degrees in political science and law from Universities of Lyon (France), Leipzig (Germany) and Tilburg (the Netherlands) and has taught copyright law at University of Technology of CompiÃ¨gne, France. She worked at IRCAM, the Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination at Centre Pompidou in Paris, in a multimedia start-up, in a cultural community center and co-founded an indie music label.

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 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. Urs Gasser is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (S.J.D. 2001, J.D. 1997) and Harvard Law School (LL.M. 2003). For his academic work, he has received several awards, including Harvard’s Landon H. Gammon Fellowship for academic excellence and the “Walther Hug-Preis Schweiz”, a prize for the best doctoral theses in law nationwide, among others.

Adam Holland is a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He joined Berkman in the summer of 2008 as part of Lewis Hyde’s Freedom To Teach project, with which he is still affiliated. Freedom To Teach is devoted to developing a community-generated Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use for academics. Adam graduated from Harvard in 1994 with a degree in Folklore and Mythology. He then spent ten years training for the U.S. National Rowing Team, where he won two World Championship medals and was a member of the 1996 Olympic team. He is currently a rising 3L at Boston University School of Law, where he is concentrating in Intellectual Property Law, and is the 2009-10 Managing Editor of the school’s Journal of Science and Technology Law. His research interests include any intersection between law and technology that might help to create more sustainable societies.

Chris Peterson is a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and an Associate at the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Critical Legal Studies from the Commonwealth College at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research investigates how the environmental properties and architectural heuristics of digital spaces frame, inform, and affect human behavior.