Information about Contributors

Contributors

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Intro-duction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Communications Policy in the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Guilford Press, 1999). She has been a Fulbright and a John Simon Guggenheim fellow, as well as a board member of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. She received the career achievement award for scholarship from the International Documentary Association in 2006.

Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite (Columbia University Press, 2005) and articles on film, media, and copyright history. He is currently working on a book on the history and future of film copyright.

Peter Jaszi teaches at the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, D.C., where he also directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. He specializes in domestic and international copyright law. Professor Jaszi is an experienced copyright litigator and a frequent speaker to professional audiences in the United States and abroad. He also coauthors a standard copyright textbook. Alone and with Martha Woodmansee, he has written several articles on copyright history and theory; together they edited The Construction of Authorship, published by Duke University Press. In 1994, Professor Jaszi was a member of the Librarian of Congress Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit. Since 1995 he has been active in the Digital Future Coalition, which he helped to organize. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and a member of the editorial board of its journal.

Jon Lewis is a professor in the English Department at Oregon State University. He is the editor of Cinema Journal and the author of several books, including Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry.

Eric J. Schwartz is a copyright attorney at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP in Washington, D.C. He is also the founding director and a board member of the National Film Preservation Foundation, and has served as a counsel to the National Film Preservation Board in the Library of Congress since its inception in 1989.

Fred von Lohmann is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property issues. In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and individuals in litigation against every major record label, movie studio, and television network in the United States. He recently served as counsel to StreamCast Networks through the Supreme Court proceedings in the MGM v. Grokster case. In addition to litigation, he is involved in EFF's efforts to educate policymakers regarding the proper balance between intellectual property protection and the public interest in fair use, free expression, and innovation.

Matt Williams is a 2006 graduate of the American University Washington College of Law and an associate at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in Washington, D.C.