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Prof. Jessica Litman esq., MFA


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May 2011: 'Other colleges just aren't digitizing to begin with, because of the legal uncertainty around orphans. Many will look at collections they want to preserve—tapes crumbling into goo, papers fading—and "put them back into the box and hope someone decides what to do with them next year," says Jessica Litman, a law professor and copyright expert at the University of Michigan.'

http://chronicle.com/article/Out-of-Fear-Institutions-Lock/127701/

October 2006: "Jessica Litman rejoined the Michigan Law faculty in 2006. She was previously Professor of Law at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she taught copyright law, Internet law, and trademarks and unfair competition. She was also a faculty member at the University of Michigan Law School from 1984-1990 and a visiting professor at NYU Law School and at American University Washington College of Law. Litman is the author of the book Digital Copyright, and the coauthor with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin of a casebook on Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law. Litman has testified before Congress and the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force's Working Group on Intellectual Property. She is a trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and the chair elect of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. Litman serves on the Advisory Board for the Public Knowledge organization and has served on the National Research Council's Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services. Professor Litman is a member of the Intellectual Property and Internet Committee of the ACLU and the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts. She has a B.A. from Reed College, an M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law."

http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=346

March 2002: Law Professor, author of the book "Digital Copyright".

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/13/copy_protection/print.html

September 2001: Jessica Litman, a law professor at Wayne State University who specializes in intellectual property, likened it to the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act that slapped restrictions on digital audio recorders.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Organization Oct 13, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Columbia University Organization Oct 13, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) New York University (NYU) Organization Oct 13, 2006
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) Public Knowledge Organization Oct 13, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Reed College Organization Oct 13, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Southern Methodist University (SMU) Organization Oct 13, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Organization Oct 13, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Washington College of Law (WCL) Organization Oct 13, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Wayne State University (WSU) Organization Oct 13, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
May 29, 2011 Out of Fear, Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars

QUOTE: A common problem bedevils those different university collections. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain "orphan works," whose copyright owners can't be found. And the institutions that hold the collections—a consortium of major research libraries and the University of California campuses at San Diego and Los Angeles—must deal with legal uncertainty in deciding how to share the works. A university that goes too far could end up facing a copyright-infringement lawsuit.

 Baltimore Chronicle
Mar 13, 2002 Chained melodies

QUOTE: Copyright-holding corporations are pushing new laws and computer-crippling technologies in their war on piracy. But can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave?

 Salon
Sep 07, 2001 New Copyright Bill Heading to DC

QUOTE: "Some parts of this go too far.... Would this mean that if I distributed a file that I received from someone who had broken security technology that I would be breaking the law?"...

 Wired