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This site serves as a clearinghouse of copyright resources for the Harvard Library community and beyond. The content included here is an extension of the Harvard Library Copyright Advisor's efforts to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright among Harvard faculty, students, and staff in support of pedagogy, research, and innovation. As the Library's Copyright First Responder network continues to collaborate with the Copyright Advisor to develop services and support for the University community, look for updates, including information about public domain, fair use, theses and dissertations, and publishing/author rights, and more.

Harvard's Copyright Advisor is made possible by generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

Staff

Kyle K. Courtney is an attorney who works closely with Harvard Library to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright issues among Harvard staff, faculty, and students. Kyle also works with the Office of General Counsel on intellectual property issues associated with the newly created HarvardX classes. Before joining the OSC, Kyle worked at Harvard Law School as the manager of Faculty Research and Scholarship. He currently maintains a dual appointment at Northeastern University as a Faculty Scholar for the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at the School of Law, and teaching "Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights" for the interdisciplinary Information Assurance program at the College of Computer and Information Science. He holds a J.D. with distinction in Intellectual Property Law and an MLIS. He is a published author and frequent speaker on the topic of libraries and copyright.

Katie Zimmerman is a law student at Harvard Law School, and was the 2014 summer Copyright Fellow at the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication. She holds a Masters of Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Science, and a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in Psychology and Cognitive Science from Rice University. Katie has also worked in the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Cyberlaw Clinic and in corporate document delivery.

Leigh Barnwell is a law student at Harvard Law School, and was a 2014 fall Copyright Fellow at the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication. Before coming to law school, she studied English and Economics at Stanford University, received a Masters with Distinction in English from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and worked for several years in the Books Editorial Department of Duke University Press. She spent her 1L summer at Public Knowledge, a DC-based non-profit that works on IP, tech, and communications policy, and her 2L summer at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York City.

Jessica Vosgerchian is a law student at Harvard Law School, and was a 2014 fall Copyright Fellow at the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication.

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is a 4th year S.J.D. (doctoral) candidate at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on international environmental law, legal history, and issues related to technology and society.

Ben Steinberg, Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication, Digital Library Software Engineer

Ben Steinberg holds an MLS from Simmons College. Before joining the OSC, he worked as a reference and systems librarian at the Public Library of Brookline.

Emily Kilcer, Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication, Project Coordinator

Emily holds an MLS from Simmons College. Before joining the OSC Emily gained a decade of experience in scholarly publishing. She also serves as a research assistant to Peter Suber's Harvard Open Access Project.

Current designated Copyright First Responders may be found here: https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/copyright/first-responders.