Presenter Information: Kraemer Copyright Conference 2017

So, You’re the New Copyright Librarian...Now What?

Emilie Algenio is Assistant Professor and Copyright/Fair Use Librarian for the Texas A&M University Libraries. She led their efforts for the Open Access and Fair Use Week celebrations, and her focus is on copyright education and outreach. She started her career as the Resident at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, followed by her position as the Consortia Resources Coordinator for the University of Texas System Libraries. Emilie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Guilford College, and has a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons College.

A New Frontier: Incorporating Copyright into Distance Education

Rachel Becker is the Electronic/Continuing Resources Librarian for the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. She holds a Master’s in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a Paralegal degree from Madison College. In addition to providing reference and library instruction for students she works on educating the campus community on copyright issues. In 2016 she was awarded the North American Serials Interest Group’s Horizon Award for promising new professionals in the field. In her spare time she enjoys riding her horse, cooking, and following US Supreme Court cases.

Copyright for Authors: Ideas, Activities, and Discussion Points

Sara Benson is the Copyright Librarian for the University of Illinois Library. She holds a JD and an LLM and will soon have her MLIS from the iSchool at the University of Illinois. Before moving to the library, she worked as a Lecturer of Law for ten years at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Exploiting Elsevier's CC License Requirement to Subvert Embargo

Josh Bolick is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Kansas. He recently coauthored "How open access is crucial to the future of science" in the Journal of Wildlife Management, and a letter in Science, "Subsidizing truly open access." He helped plan and execute the November 2016 symposium, "Envisioning a World Beyond APCs". Josh is currently working on an open textbook of scholarly communication librarianship with Maria Bonn and Will Cross, and serves as a presenter for the Open Textbook Network to educate and engage librarians and staff at member institutions about the impacts of high cost texts on students, and the opportunity of open educational resources to improve student success and pedagogy. He is very interested in creative strategies to support ownership for the creators of scholarship, which led to the idea behind his Kraemer Copyright Conference poster.

Show Me The Copyright: Using game techniques to teach copyright law

Chealsye is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Florida Gulf Coast University where she educates the campus community about open access and author's rights. She is also the Communications and Advocacy Director for the Open Access Button, a suite of open source services that help users find, request, and share research articles and data.

Leveraging Licensing to Increase Access

Jennifer is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at UCLA. She liaises with campus partners on the development of targeted outreach and programming that promote scholarly communication and open access, and develops open education strategies to further the campus mission of research, teaching, and public service. Previously, at the University of Colorado Boulder, she headed several Open Access initiatives of the University Libraries, including advocating for the successful passage of a campus-level OA policy, administering the Libraries' OA policy, an OA publishing fund, and CU Scholar, the institutional repository of the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, Jennifer was with the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing at the University Libraries, University of Pittsburgh, where she actively supported OA initiatives in her role as Assistant Scholarly Communications Librarian, and facilitated an altmetrics pilot project that integrated the Pitt IR, D-Scholarship@Pitt, with the PlumX altmetrics platform. Jennifer has completed certification in Copyright Management and Leadership.

Kyle Courtney is an attorney and the first Copyright Advisor out of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University. Kyle holds a J.D. with distinction in Intellectual Property Law and his practice consults with libraries, higher education, non-profit groups, and specialized archives over copyright law. Kyle has worked as the Copyright and Information Policy Advisor for HarvardX, founded the first Harvard Copyright Working Group, started the "Copyright First Responders" profiled in Library Journal in 2013, was named a National Academic Library Mover & Shaker in 2015, found Fair Use Week which is now an international celebration, and was awarded a grant to develop a web-based "Fair Use and Copyright Tool". He is a nationally recognized speaker and a published author and writes a monthly column on research methods for Massachusetts Lawyer's Weekly. His most recent work includes a chapter on copyright law in the work University Libraries in the Digital Era.

Kenneth D. Crews is an attorney, author, professor, and international copyright consultant. For over 25 years, his research, policymaking, and teaching have centered on copyright issues related to education and research. Professor Crews established and directed the nation's first university-based copyright office at Indiana University. He was the first recipient of the Patterson Copyright Award from the American Library Association, and he received the Mark T. Banner Award from the American Bar Association in 2014. He is the author of numerous publications including the book, Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators (3rd ed, 2012).

Mapping the Copyright Constellation: Charting Campus Partners to Create Copyright Instruction Your Students Will Care About

William M. Cross is the Director of the Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center at North Carolina State University where he provides guidance to campus stakeholders on legal issues and open access to scholarship, data, and educational resources. As a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Will earned an M.A. in Technology & Communication, a J.D. in Law, and an M.S.L.S. in Library Science. Before joining the NCSU Libraries, Will worked in academic and law libraries, in constitutional litigation, and at the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Will serves as an instructor in the UNC School of Information & Library Science and lectures nationally on copyright, scholarly communication, and open culture. He has been quoted in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Library Journal, and Techdirt and publishes regularly on topics ranging from the pedagogy of legal education for librarians to the First Amendment status of video games.

Empowering Fair Use Decisions in Higher Education: Developing Copyright Instruction for 90 Minutes or Less
Case Studies from the Field: Making Fair Use Determinations in an Educational Setting

Meghan Damour will graduate with her MLIS from the University of Denver in just a few days, on June 9th. Throughout the duration of her MLIS program, she was an intern at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library in the Education and Reference Department. She also recently completed an internship focused on research data management in the Digital Initiatives Center at the University of Alberta. Meghan's interest in copyright developed when she helped design and teach a class on fair use for faculty, staff, and students at the Anschutz Medical Campus and was solidified when she attended last year's Kraemer Copyright Conference.

Nathaniel Edwards is Counsel in Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie’s Intellectual Property practice group. His practice is focused on developing and protecting brands and copyrighted content in the U.S. and abroad. For Nathaniel, this means two things: (1) Ensuring that others do not capitalize on his clients’ IP; and (2) Properly advising clients to the risks of using certain IP, minimizing the risk, and defending clients against infringement claims when necessary. Nathaniel specializes in trademark law and he advises clients on all aspects of trademark and trade dress protection. He has particular expertise in intellectual property disputes arising in cyberspace, including an undefeated record in domain name dispute proceedings. Nathaniel regularly conducts due diligence, advertising and rights clearance for products, packaging and marketing materials. He prosecutes U.S. trademark and copyright applications and coordinates prosecution of non-U.S. applications with foreign counsel. He skillfully handles trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, domain name and copyright enforcement matters, including representing clients in cancellation and opposition proceedings before the USPTO and in Federal District Court. He also instructs foreign counsel on cross-border infringement matters. Nathaniel successfully protects his clients’ IP and publicity rights on the Internet. He frequently removes infringing or defamatory content from ecommerce and social media websites. He is also adept at advising clients on ICANN policy and procedure and the new gTLD program, and has represented clients in objections filed under the New gTLD Dispute Resolution Procedure. In the course of his practice, Nathaniel also negotiates and drafts settlement agreements, consent and coexistence agreements, work-for-hire agreements, license agreements and IP transfer agreements.

Negotiating Publishing Contracts

Ana Enriquez is a copyright specialist at the University of Michigan Library Copyright Office, where she provides consultation and education about copyright for members of the university community. Before coming to Michigan, she was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard working on CopyrightX, an online copyright law course. She has also taught at Northeastern University, Ithaca College, and for the Association of College & Research Libraries. She is a graduate of Berkeley Law and Harvard College (A.B. in history and literature).

Copyright: The Ethical Imperative for Librarians

Martin Garnar is the dean of the Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He started teaching professional ethics for the University of Denver’s library and information science program in 2005 and has served as chair of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, the ALA Committee on Professional Ethics, and the ACRL Professional Values Committee. During Martin’s tenure as chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics, the committee issued its first-ever interpretation of the Code of Ethics on the topic of copyright. He’s currently serving as the president of the Freedom to Read Foundation. Martin is a frequent speaker on ethics and intellectual freedom at state, regional, and national events, and served as the assistant editor for the 9th edition of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Manual.

Panel Discussion: Should I go to Law School?

Eric is the music special collections librarian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds master's degrees in music from Cleveland State University, and in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a vocal advocate for the interests of libraries and archives information policy interests, and is a frequent speaker on the subject. For his research on copyright and institutionally-produced sound recordings, he was the inaugural winner of the American Library Association's Robert L. Oakley Memorial Scholarship, which honors early-to-mid-career librarians researching intellectual property and public policy issues for libraries.

Empowering Fair Use Decisions in Higher Education: Developing Copyright Instruction for 90 Minutes or Less
Case Studies from the Field: Making Fair Use Determinations in an Educational Setting

Ben is an Education and Reference Librarian at the University of Colorado Health Sciences library. He became interested in fair use and copyright while trying to incorporate real-world materials into instruction for 7th grade social studies and science. After his move to higher ed, Ben co-designed and teaches a class on fair use for the faculty, staff and students of the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Empowering Fair Use Decisions in Higher Education: Developing Copyright Instruction for 90 Minutes or Less
Case Studies from the Field: Making Fair Use Determinations in an Educational Setting

John received his Information Science degree from the Library School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1993. He has spent the last 24 years working at 3 different health sciences centers in Virginia, South Florida and now here in Colorado. His work has been primarily focused on User Services including typical education activities, reference modalities as well as the promotion of new technologies whether for internal library staff or for patron use. He attended the Kraemer Copyright Conference in 2015 which encouraged his participation in copyright discussions and to help develop a Fair Use class for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Mapping the Copyright Constellation: Charting Campus Partners to Create Copyright Instruction Your Students Will Care About

Molly Keener is the Director of Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, where she works with faculty, students, and staff to understand copyright and author rights, open access, funder mandates, research data management, and changes in scholarly publishing practices. As director of the Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication department, Keener ensures that the library is advancing services and innovative opportunities for faculty and students to explore and expand their concept of scholarship. She was a founding instructor in the ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow program, has served on a number of committees and advisory boards for professional organizations, and is currently the co-chair of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Scholarly Communications Interest Group. Keener joined the faculty of Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, in October 2009 as the Scholarly Communication Librarian. In January 2017, she was appointed the Director of Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication. Keener holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Yuan Li is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Princeton University, where she manages the Princeton University Library's efforts to support scholarly publication innovations and reforms, and supervises and coordinates activities related to the Princeton Open Access policy and the Princeton Institutional Repository. Prior to joining Princeton, she served as the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Syracuse University, the Digital Initiatives Librarian at University of Rhode Island, and the Digital Repository Librarian at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Yuan has a Master degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Rhode Island, a Master of Engineering degree in Applied Computer Science from the National Computer System Engineering Research Institute of China and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Technology from Yanshan University (China).

How Networking on Campus Can Increase Copyright Education

Rachel Miles is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at the Center for Advancement of Digital Scholarship (CADS) at Kansas State University Libraries. Her primary responsibilities include reaching out to campus communities and partners to promote educational workshops on copyright, teaching classes and workshops on copyright and related topics, managing and maintaining K-State’s copyright website, creating educational materials and media on copyright, and completing copyright consultations for faculty, staff, students, researchers, and post docs. She is also an active participant in open access (OA) initiatives and events on campus, and she works with the university’s institutional repository, the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx) and its OA scholarly publishing imprint, New Prairie Press (NPP). She is an active member of NASIG and continues to explore issues concerning the environment of scholarly communications. Currently, her collaborative and ongoing research centers on the awareness and usage of research impact indicators among LIS professionals in the United States. She holds a B.A. in psychology from Wichita State University and an M.L.S. from Emporia State University.

Copyright Boot Camp

Carla Myers serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Scholarly Communications for the Miami University Libraries. Her professional presentations and publications focus on fair use, copyright in the classroom, and library copyright issues.

A Prudent Approach to Fair Use Workflow

Charlotte is the Electronic Resources and Circulation Librarian at Denver Seminary, developing and overseeing library access and electronic resources for the Seminary's residential and fully online degree programs. She has served in the Seminary's library since 2007.

A Prudent Approach to Fair Use Workflow

Educational librarians and teachers require fast, accurate and efficient processes for copyright study materials management and reporting. Helping make copyright easy is a rewarding challenge! I have gained a lot of experience and insight from working on hundreds of digital strategy, online businesses, software development and new media projects over 20 years. I combine my research experience with knowledge of real world practical implementation and have worked around the globe with diverse organizations. My extensive expertise in copyright and system integration has given me experience of key issues from a variety of sectors including the music and entertainment, and especially higher education. Over the years I have been instrumental in the organizational restructuring, and process improvement of several organizations (around the globe), assisting in the development of more productive and successful work environments through the effective use of technology and by leveraging technology to increase efficiency, reduce risk and legal exposure. I hold B. Bus (Hons) and MEd (T&D) degrees and have published refereed articles on the impact of web technology on human interaction and have undertaken advanced research into usability, human interface design and navigational systems with particular reference to the education sector.

Navigating Copyright in Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Gesina Phillips is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Duquesne University. She is currently coordinating the planning and launch of the university's new institutional repository, and works extensively with graduate students as they prepare their mandatory ETD submissions. In addition to educating graduate students and faculty about copyright, Gesina is also an instructor for the required freshman information literacy course at Duquesne; among the topics covered are copyright, fair use, and ethical information use. Gesina earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015, her MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, and her BA in English from Seton Hall University in 2011.

Mapping the Copyright Constellation: Charting Campus Partners to Create Copyright Instruction Your Students Will Care About

Lillian Rigling is a NCSU Libraries Fellow, working in the Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center and the User Experience Department. She coordinates outreach, instruction, and engagement around issues of author's rights, open education, open access, and open culture at NCSU for students and faculty. She is also on the Libraries' User Research team, where she serves as a project investigator for user research that informs library collections, space, and service design. She is also an instructor for a variety of library programs, including embedded classroom instruction, digital media instruction, and makerspace instruction. Previously, Lillian worked at the University of Toronto Libraries in the Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office.

Fight for Your Right to Copy: How One Library Acquired the Copyright Permissions Service and Reduced Student Costs

Emily Riha is the Copyright Permissions Coordinator and acquires permissions on behalf of University of Minnesota faculty and staff to use copyrighted items in their course websites, course packs, Libraries' Reserve, publications and other University-related purposes.

Copyright Policy From the Slow Moving Swamp

Carrie Russell is the Director for the Program on Public Access to Information for the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). She has worked for OITP since 1999, where she expanded into the areas of international copyright, accessibility, and e-books. Carrie was the recipient of the 2001 ALA Staff Achievement Award, and the 2013 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for Best Book in Library Literature for Copyright: An Everyday Guide for K-12 Librarians and Educators. She also authored Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians, now in its second edition. Carrie has a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Master of Arts (media arts with an emphasis on the political economy of information) from the University of Arizona.

Kevin Smith became the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas in May 2016, after 10 years as Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at the Duke University Libraries. As both a librarian and a lawyer specializing in intellectual property issues, Smith's role at Duke was to advise faculty, staff, and students about the impact of copyright, licensing, and the changing nature of scholarly publishing on higher education. Prior to that, Smith was director of the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught constitutional law. His teaching experience is various, having taught courses in theology, law, and library science. Smith is the author of numerous articles on the impact of copyright law and the internet on scholarly research as well as libraries' role in the academy. He has been a highly regarded blogger on these issues for many years, and in 2013 published Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers with the Association of College and Research Libraries. Smith holds a B.A. from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., an M.A. from Yale Divinity School, an M.L.S. from Kent State University, and a J.D. from Capital University. He did doctoral work in theology and literature at the University of Chicago. Smith has been admitted to the bar in Ohio and North Carolina.

Copyright – Basic Principles, Updates and Trends

Jon Tandler is a Member of Sherman & Howard L.L.C., Denver, Colorado, and practices intellectual property, publishing, information technology and business law. He represents entrepreneurs, established companies and institutions on matters for managing and monetizing intellectual property and information technology assets. Jon’s publishing practice emphasizes copyright and literary law, and rights, contracts, transactional and regulatory matters. He represents publishers, packagers, associations, agencies and authors in several publishing genres. Jon has been specializing in his fields of practice for over twenty-five years, and teaches about them for educational institutions, trade associations and continuing legal education. Jon’s email is jtandler@shermanhoward.com.

Panel Discussion: Should I go to Law School?

Tucker Taylor is Head of Circulation and Educational Films at Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina. Having served over 20 years in access services, she is keenly interested in how copyright and licensing affect our abilities to provide access to information. She is also a founder and co-chair of SCLA's Scholarly Communications Interest Group.

Interactive Copyright Education for 3D Objects

Camille Thomas is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Texas Tech University. She provides outreach and consultation concerning copyright, open access and other related topics. She has an BA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida and a Masters of Library and Information Studies from Florida State University.

View from the Bleachers: Applied Skills in Finding and Using Free Media Resources

Barbara M. Waxer is an educator, author, and trainer. She provides nationwide copyright and media training in eLearning communities and teaches in the Media Arts and Film Departments at Santa Fe Community College. She is a dedicated Creative Commons enthusiast. Writing primarily for Cengage Learning and Pearson, she has authored over two dozen textbooks and multiple online and eLearning products on copyright, finding and using media, writing for the web, and Adobe and Microsoft software. Her Cengage title, Internet Surf and Turf Revealed: The Essential Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Finding Media (with Marsha Baum), won the TEXTY Textbook Excellence Award and the New England Book Show Award. Barbara thrives when developing best practices for users and creators of digital content. She has a BA in Chinese from Michigan State University and an MA in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University.

Copyright for Movie Night: Film Screenings on Campus

Michaela Willi Hooper is the Scholarly Communication Librarian and an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University Libraries. She earned her MS in Information from the University of Michigan and a BA in History. In her decade of experience as an academic librarian, Michaela frequently encountered information creators and re-users who were anxious about, confused by, or ignorant of copyright law. She enjoys learning more about copyright and educating others about this essential topic. She recently became a reviews editor for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication; please alert her to forthcoming copyright-related books and products. Her research interests include transformative learning, student perceptions of scholarly communications, and integrating institutional repositories with researcher workflows.

Turning Wrongs into Rights: Assessment & Implementation of RightsStatements.org at Washington University

Mr. Zeller is the Copyright Services Analyst at Washington University in St. Louis, where he helps faculty, students, and staff with intellectual property issues that connect to research, teaching, and library services. He is member of the ARL-UIPO (University Information Policy Officers) and the Missouri Bar, and is responsible for a wide range of institutional rights matters as a primary part of his work portfolio. He helped develop the Missouri Hub to facilitation participation in the DPLA, has worked closely with the Documenting Ferguson project team, and serves on the Faculty Committee on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer under the Office of the Provost. He has a JD from Washington University School of Law, where he oversaw creation of its institutional repository, and has worked for University Libraries since 2013.

Teaching an invisible subject: How are we educating faculty about copyright?

Jennifer Zerkee is a Copyright Specialist in the Simon Fraser University Copyright Office in Burnaby, BC (Canada). Jennifer develops and delivers copyright education programs, maintains the website copyright.sfu.ca, and provides copyright support to students, instructors, and staff. She is interested in copyright officers’ and librarians’ approaches to outreach and copyright education for faculty and non-faculty instructors, and methods of assessing and documenting educational offerings. Jennifer holds a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia and is also a practicing archivist.