Speakers

Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth
Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law SchoolJune Besek, Columbia Law School
Caleb Crain, Author
Nico van Eijk, University of Amsterdam
Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa
James Gleick, Author
Daniel Goldstein, Brown Goldstein Levy
Eric Hellman, Unglue.it
Roy Kaufman, Copyright Clearance Center
Ariel Katz, University of Toronto
Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
Molly Land, New York Law School
Jake Linford, Florida State University
Jessica Litman, University of Michigan
Lateef Mtima, Howard University
Valerie Small Navarro, ACLU of California
Mark Patterson, Fordham University
Aaron Perzanowski, Wayne State University
Matthew Sag, Loyola University of Chicago
Christopher Sagers, Cleveland State University
Pamela Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley
Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University
Jule Sigall, Microsoft
John Thompson, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane University
Doron Weber, Sloan Foundation
Jessamyn West, Librarian.net
Eric Zohn, William Morris Endeavor

 

All affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

 

Speaker Biographies 

Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth

Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the PRO-IP Act, and other federal and state statutes relating to intellectual property and the Internet. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions. 
 
Mr. Band has also represented clients in connection to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and other international agreements. 
 
Mr. Band's deep substantive knowledge of the application of intellectual property law to information technology permits him to counsel clients on complex copyright issues. Mr. Band is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet, including the books Interfaces on Trial and Interfaces on Trial 2.0, and over 100 articles. 
 
Mr. Band received a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1982 from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. From 1985 to 2005, Mr. Band worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a partner. Mr. Band established his own law firm in May, 2005.
 

Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law School 

Robert Brauneis is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at The George Washington University Law School, where he teaches copyright, trademark, and international intellectual property law.  After obtaining his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (now Justice Breyer), and to Justice David H. Souter.  Professor Brauneis is a member of the Managing Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and Co-Chair of the DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA.  He is the co-author, with Roger E. Schechter, of Copyright: A Contemporary Approach (West 2012).
 

June Besek, Columbia Law School  

June M. Besek joined the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts in 1999, where she oversees studies on national and international intellectual property issues. She was formerly Director of Intellectual Property at Reuters America Inc. and, before that, a partner at Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay in New York. She is an active member of the ABA Intellectual Property Section and the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. She received her B.A. from Yale and J.D. from New York University.


Caleb Crain, Author

Caleb Crain has written about history and literature for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and other magazines. He's the author of American Sympathy, a study of friendship between men in early American literature, and Necessary Errors, a novel that will be published by Penguin in August 2013. He writes the blog Steamboats Are Ruining Everything.


Nico van Eijk, University of Amsterdam

Nico van Eijk is Professor of Media and Telecommunications Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam). He studied Law at the University of Tilburg and received his doctorate on government interference with broadcasting in 1992 from the University of Amsterdam. He also works as an independent legal adviser. Among other things, he is the Chairman of the Dutch Federation for Media and Communications Law (Vereniging voor Media- en Communicatierecht, VMC), a member of the supervisory board of the Dutch public broadcasting organisation (NPO) and chairman of two committees of The Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER).

 

Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa

Niva Elkin-Koren is the former dean of the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law and the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, private ordering, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, information intermediaries and legal strategies for enhancing the public domain. She is the co-founder of the Alliance of Israeli Institutions of Higher Education for Promoting Access to Scientific Materials. As the academic director of the Haifa Law & Technology Clinic, she has worked with the Israeli National Library on the legal implications of the library digitization. 
 

 James Gleick, Author

James Gleick is a journalist, formerly with the New York Times, and the author of several books exploring the effects of science and technology, including most recently The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. He founded The Pipeline, a New York City–based Internet service, in 1993; was the first editor of the Best American Science Writing series; and is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar. His website is at http://around.com.

 

Daniel Goldstein, Brown Goldstein Levy

Since 1986, Dan Goldstein, a partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, a Baltimore, Maryland law firm, has been engaged in disability rights law, principally on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). As counsel for the NFB, Dan has participated in its national strategy to make websites, workplace software applications, ATMs, voting machines, cell phones, and eBook reading devices accessible to the blind and others with print disabilities.

Dan represented the NFB as an intervening defendant after the Authors Guild sued a consortium of universities, seeking to impound the digital scans of their library collections. On October 10, 2012, in a landmark ruling, Judge Baer of the Southern District of New York, granted judgment in favor of the defendants, ruling that making digitized copies of the library collections for full expressive use by the blind and searchable for all members of the university communities was a fair use. The decision also held that the Chafee Amendment allows the universities to make those digital collections accessible to all blind readers around the country.


Eric Hellman, Unglue.it

Eric Hellman, President of Gluejar, is a technologist, entrepreneur, and writer. After 10 years at Bell Labs in physics research, Eric became interested in technologies surrounding e-journals and libraries. His first business, Openly Informatics, developed OpenURL linking software and knowledgebases, and was acquired by OCLC in 1996. At OCLC, he led the effort to productize and expand the xISBN service, and began the development of OCLC's Electronic Resource Management offerings. After leaving OCLC, Eric began blogging at Go To Hellman. He covers the intersection of technology, libraries and ebooks, and has written extensively on the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Eric has a B.S.E. from Princeton University, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University

 

Roy Kaufman, Copyright Clearance Center

Roy Kaufman is Managing Director of New Ventures and is responsible for expanding service capabilities as CCC moves into new markets and services. Prior to CCC, Kaufman served as Legal Director, Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and formerly a member of, among other things, the Copyright Committee of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers and the legal working group of ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) project. He formerly chaired the legal working group of CrossRef, which he helped to form. He speaks frequently on issues of copyright, artists’ rights and anti-piracy, having presented to groups including: AAP’s Rights and Permissions Advisory Committee, the New York City Bar Association, the Evangelical Christian Publisher’s Association and Nurture Art. Roy is Editor-in-Chief of Art Law Handbook: From Antiquities to the Internet and author of two books on publishing contract law. He has lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, licensing, new media, artists’ rights, and art law. Roy is a graduate of Brandeis University (B.A., European Cultural Studies) and Columbia Law School (J.D.), where he served as Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts. 

 

Ariel Katz, University of Toronto

Ariel Katz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he holds the Innovation Chair in Electronic Commerce and is the Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. His general area of research involves economic analysis of antitrust and intellectual property law, with allied interests in electronic commerce, pharmaceutical regulation, the regulation of international trade, and particularly the intersection of these fields. Prior to joining the University of Toronto Professor Katz was a staff attorney at the Israeli Antitrust Authority. While there, he litigated several merger appeals and restrictive arrangements cases before the Antitrust Tribunal and negotiated regulatory settlements. Professor Katz teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw, and the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law. Professor Katz received his LL.B. and LL.M from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his SJD from the University of Toronto, and is currently an Engelberg Fellow within the Hauser Global Program at NYU Law School.

 

Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University

Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the national humanities organization in the United States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He was trained in British and American history at Harvard (PhD, 1961), where he also attended Law School in 1969-70. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and the Editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. . He also writes about higher education policy, and publishes a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education.  Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Katz is a specialist on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, Mr. Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library and numerous other institutions. He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He received the annual Fellows Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2010 and  the National Humanities Medal (awarded by Pres. Obama) in 2011.  He has honorary degrees from several universities.

 

Molly Land, New York Law School

Molly Land is Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. Drawing on her human rights expertise and background as a litigator in the areas of intellectual property and technology, Professor Land’s scholarship focuses on access to knowledge and the intersection of intellectual property, information law, and human rights. Her current work explores the extent to which human rights law can provide a foundation for claims of access to the Internet as well as the opportunities and challenges for using new technologies to achieve human rights objectives. Professor Land’s articles have been published in the Yale, Harvard, and Michigan journals of international law, among other places. Prior to joining New York Law School, Professor Land was a Visiting Lecturer in Law and the Robert M. Cover / Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights at Yale Law School.

 

Jake Linford, Florida State University

Jake Linford is an assistant professor at Florida State University College of Law. His research focuses on intellectual property, with an emphasis on the intersections between the intellectual property, commerce and speech clauses of the Constitution; rights in real and intangible properties; and the place of common law doctrines in the current statutory intellectual property regime. His articles have appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review, the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy. He teaches courses in copyrights, trademarks and unfair competition, contracts, and bioethics.

Prior to joining the Florida State Law faculty, Professor Linford clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and litigated copyright and trademark matters with the law firm of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, LLP, in Chicago. Professor Linford is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review, graduated with high honors and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
 

Jessica Litman, University of Michigan
 
Jessica Litman teaches copyright law, trademark law, intellectual property law and Internet law at the University of Michigan.
 
 

Lateef Mtima, Howard University

Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice in Washington, D.C. After graduating with honors from Amherst College in 1982, Prof. Mtima received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1985, where he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. Admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars, Prof. Mtima practiced with Coudert Brothers until 1996, and was later Of Counsel to the Philadelphia firm of Klehr, Harrison. In the fall of 2009, Prof. Mtima served as the distinguished Libra Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Maine School of Law. He is a Past President of the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court for the Federal Circuit, and also serves as a member of the ALI-ABA CPE Advisory Board of Directors on Intellectual Property, The Practical Lawyer Editorial Board, and the Advisory Board for the BNA Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal. 

 

 Valerie Small Navarro, ACLU of California
Valerie Small Navarro has testified and lobbied the California legislature on behalf of the ACLU on a gamut of civil liberties and civil rights issues ranging from DNA testing to prove innocence, to the Reproductive Privacy Act, and Driving While Black or Brown.  Prior to working with the ACLU, she worked as a Legislative Aide to Congressman Xavier Becerra and with other civil rights organizations including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and California Rural Legal Assistance, Foundation.  
 
 

Mark Patterson, Fordham University

Mark R. Patterson is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where he teaches courses on antitrust law, patent law, and contracts. Professor Patterson has also taught seminars on Antitrust and Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property Licensing, Global Technology Transfer, and Technology and Human Rights. He writes regularly on topics at the interface of intellectual property and antitrust.  
 
Professor Patterson received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Ohio State University, both in electrical engineering, and he performed engineering research, primarily in robotics, for ten years.  Subsequently he obtained his J.D. degree from Stanford Law School and practiced law at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, concentrating on antitrust litigation and patent prosecution. He then clerked for Justice John M. Greaney on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School before joining Fordham. He has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute and a visiting professor at Northeastern University School of Law and at Bocconi University in Milan.
 
Professor Patterson is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

 

Aaron Perzanowski, Wayne State University

Aaron Perzanowski is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School where he teaches courses in intellectual property and telecommunications law. His research addresses regulation shaping the production and dissemination of information goods, with a particular focus on digital rights management and copy ownership. Previously, he was the Microsoft Research Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Law.  In the fall of 2012, he is serving as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

 

Matthew Sag, Loyola University of Chicago

I am an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. I have also taught at DePaul University, Northwestern University and the University of Virginia.

Prior to my academic career, I practiced as an intellectual property lawyer in the United Kingdom with Arnold & Porter and in Silicon Valley, California with Skadden, Arps. I earned my law degree with honors from the Australian National University and clerked for Justice Paul Finn of the Federal Court of Australia.
My research focuses on the intersection of law and technology. I am have been called an expert on copyright law and fair use – which I believe to be true– but I have also been called an expert on patent law–which is not true. My work is informed by economic theory, and I am an enthusiastic practitioner of empirical legal studies.
 

Christopher Sagers, Cleveland State University

Chris Sagers is James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University, where he teaches courses in Antitrust, Bank Regulation, Business Organizations, Law & Economics, Administrative Law, and the Theory of the Firm. He is co-author of Sullivan, Grimes & Sagers, The Law of Antitrust:  An Integrated Handbook, and has written extensively on antitrust, economic regulatory matters, legal history, and legal philosophy. He has given testimony on these matters before the U.S. Congress and the Antitrust Modernization Commission and is a frequent panelist and lecturer.  He is a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and serves in the leadership of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association. 

 
Before joining Cleveland State, Professor Sagers practiced law for four years in Washington, D.C., first at Arnold & Porter and then at Shea & Gardner. He earned law and public policy degrees at the University of Michigan and was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. 

Hailing originally from the peaceful obscurity of small-town Iowa, Professor Sagers lives with his wife and two sons in the nicest little town in America, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
 

Pamela Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley 

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.  She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw, and information privacy.  She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law.  She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam.  She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a Fellow of the Center for Democracy & Technology and a member of the Advisory Boards for Public Knowledge and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
 
A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to academic pursuits.  From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.  She has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1996 and has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and NYU Law Schools.
 

Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University

Stuart Shieber is James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. His research contributions have extended beyond that field as well, to theoretical linguistics, natural-language processing, computer-human interaction, automated graphic design, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, computer privacy and security, and computational biology. He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and a director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
 
Professor Shieber received an AB in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1989. He was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991, and was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993, one of only thirty in the country in all areas of science and engineering. He has been awarded two honorary chairs: the John L. Loeb Associate Professorship in Natural Sciences in 1993 and the Harvard College Professorship in 2001. He was named a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2004, and the Benjamin White Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for 2006-07.
 
His work on open access and scholarly communication policy, especially his development of Harvard's open-access policies, led to his appointment as the first director of the university's Office for Scholarly Communication, where he oversees initiatives to open, share, and preserve scholarship.
 

Jule Sigall, Microsoft

Jule L. Sigall is Assitant General Counsel – Copyright in Microsoft's Legal & Corporate Affairs department, where he leads the company’s copyright and trade secrets group. Before joining Microsoft, Jule served as Associate Register for Policy & International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, where he led the division responsible for providing domestic and international copyright policy advice to both the Legislative and Executive branches. He headed U.S. delegations to WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights, and was principal drafter of the Office's Report on Orphan Works. He was also an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he taught copyright law, and is a frequent speaker on copyright in both domestic and international conferences. Prior to his government service, Jule practiced in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC, where he was involved in some of the leading cases involving copyright and new technology. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Catholic University's Columbus School of Law and received his A.B. from Duke University.


John Thompson, University of Cambridge

John B. Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.  His publications include Ideology and Modern Culture (1990), The Media and Modernity (1995), Political Scandal (2000), Books in the Digital Age (2005) and Merchants of Culture (2010).  For the last ten years he has been working on the changing structures of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States.  His most recent book, Merchants of Culture, is a comprehensive account of the development of Anglo-American trade publishing, from the rise of the publishing corporations to the digital revolution.  An updated paperback edition has just been published in the US by Penguin.  

 
Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane University
 
Elizabeth Townsend Gard is an associate professor of law at Tulane University Law School, co-director and co-founder of Tulane’s Center for Intellectual Property Law & Culture, and director and co-inventor of the Durationator(r) Copyright Experiment, a software program that determines the worldwide copyright status of every kind of cultural work.  Before joining the faculty at Tulane in 2007, she taught at Seattle University School of Law as a visiting assistant professor and a justice faculty fellow at the Center for the Study of Justice in Society, and in 2005-06, she taught intellectual property at the London School of Economics, where she also held a Leverhulme Trust Research Postdoctoral Fellowship.  Since 2004, she has been a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.  

She earned her PhD in European History from UCLA in 1998, where she received number of fellowships and grants, including a Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, a Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Research Grant, and a Collegium of University Teaching Fellowship.  She earned her JD. and LLM in International Trade from the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, where she received a James E. Rogers LLM Graduate Fellowship, among other grants and fellowships.  During law school, she served as a clerk on a number of NAFTA arbitration cases, including the Chapter 20 cross-border trucking case between Mexico and the United States.  

Professor Townsend Gard's work has been published in Vanderbilt Law Review, DePaul Law Review, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, Journal for Internet Law, Columbia Journal for Law and the Arts, and Santa Clara Computer & High Tech Law Journal.  She has authored two chapters, one for Edward Elgar's Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Evolving Economies, and the other a co-authored piece with Ron Gard in Modernism and Copyright, published by Oxford University Press.  Her current work focuses on two areas:  social media and copyright law (analyzing the availability of accessible and informative copyright information for users of various social media sites in Flickr, Facebook, Pinterest, and Wikipedia) and copyright duration (including the Golan case, but also rule of the shorter term, and other issues related to determining how long copyright lasts in any jurisdiction).  With Ron Gard, she is beginning a Tulane University spin-out, Limited Times LLC, that will provide self-help legal educational resources to artists, scholars, filmmakers, content owners, digitizers, and anyone else needing copyright help, which utilizes the research and work of the Durationator(r) Copyright Experiment.  In additional to her specialization in copyright, she teaches property, art law, trademarks, international intellectual property, and intellectual property.  

 

Doron Weber, Sloan Foundation

Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, oversees efforts in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, Universal Access to Knowledge and International Science Cooperation. A sponsor of books, television documentaries and radio shows, Mr. Weber created a nationwide theater and film program. In Digital Information Technology, Mr. Weber supports the Digital Public Library of America, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress and the Espresso Book Machine. A new program in International Science Cooperation focuses on connecting scientists and engineers in conflict regions.

Mr. Weber was educated at Brown University, the Sorbonne and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has authored several books, most recently Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2012). 


Jessamyn West, Librarian.net

Jessamyn West is an author, community technology librarian and community manager of the massive group blog MetaFilter.com. She lives in a rural area of Central Vermont where she teaches basic computer skills. She assists tiny libraries with technology planning and implementation, helping them with wifi and websites and making sense of their systems. She maintains an online presence at jessamyn.com and librarian.net and has had her address and phone number on the Internet for over a decade. She likes reading all kinds of things.

 
Her most recent book Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide was published by ABC-CLIO in 2011
 

Eric Zohn, William Morris Endeavor

Eric S. Zohn '92 is Senior Vice President of the William Morris Agency, the largest and most diversified talent and literary agency in the world. He specializes in negotiating complex intellectual property rights agreements such as, book publishing contracts, and motion picture and television option/purchase agreements. Mr. Zohn has negotiated deals with a diverse range of buyers from the various Random House imprints, Warner Books, Simon & Schuster, Hyperion and the Holtzbrinck companies to Twentieth Century Fox Television, Sony Classics and Disney.