Biographical Notes on Conference Non-Governmental Panelists and Moderators
Toby Bainton
Mr. Bainton is Secretary of the Standing Committee on National
and University Libraries (SCONUL), which is the policy
development body for the university and research libraries of
the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is actively involved in
database protection and copyright issues in the European Union
on behalf of UK and Irish libraries. Prior to joining SCONUL in
1995, Mr. Bainton held posts in the libraries of the University
of London, Cambridge University, and the University of Reading,
where he served as director for eight years. He holds degrees
from Cambridge and the University of Sheffield.
R. Stephen Berry
Stephen Berry is the James Franck Distinguished Service
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Professor
Berry earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He
has held teaching appointments, including visiting
professorships, at Yale, Michigan, Paris-Sud, Oxford, the Free
University of Berlin and the University of Copenhagen. His
current scientific research includes the dynamics of atomic and
molecular clusters and the thermodynamics of time-constrained
processes.
Since the 1970's, he has worked on issues of science, law,
and public policy, including management of scientific data and
pre-collegiate education and scientific literacy. He chaired
the National Research Council Committee that produced the
volume
Bits of Power: Issues in Global Access to Scientific
Data
in 1997. In 1983, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and, in
1997, the Heyrovsky Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Martin Blume
Mr. Blume is Editor-in-Chief of the American Physical Society
and is responsible for the Physical Review series of journals,
which are published both traditionally and electronically. As a
physicist, Mr. Blume is personally both a consumer and producer
of databases. He received his B.A. from Princeton and his Ph.D.
in theoretical physics from Harvard. He is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Science, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical
Society.
Yale M. Braunstein
Yale M. Braunstein is a Professor at the School of Information
Management and Systems of the University of California at
Berkeley. Prior to his appointment at Berkeley, he was a member
of the economics faculties at New York and Brandeis
Universities. Professor Braunstein is the author of over 30
articles in the fields of economics and information science.
These include the 1977 report on Economics of Property Rights
as Applied to Computer Software and Data Bases for CONTU and
"Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in the International
Arena" (Journal of the American Society for Information
Science, 1989). Professor Braunstein's current research
interests include market structure in information and
communications industries as well as the economics of
intellectual property rights. He holds a B.S. degree from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a doctorate from Stanford
University.
Richard Corlin
Dr. Richard Corlin is Speaker of the House of Delegates of the
American Medical Association (AMA). The AMA provides a number
of important databases to physicians in the United States and
worldwide, including the
Physician Masterfile
, and
Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology,
a compilation of numeric codes and classifications for medical
procedures that is critical to permit medical, insurance, and
government officials to analyze medical claims and costs. In
addition to having chaired a number of the AMA's committees and
councils, Dr. Corlin is a past president of the California
Medical Association. Dr. Corlin is an assistant clinical
professor at UCLA School of Medicine and practices
gastroenterology in Santa Monica, California.
Sir Roger Elliott
Professor Sir Roger Elliott is a physicist, who has also been
involved in publishing. Educated at Oxford University, he spent
brief periods at the University of California, Berkeley, the UK
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, and the
University of Reading. He was Wykeham Professor and Head of the
Department of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University from
1974 to 88. He has served as Physical Secretary and Vice
President of The Royal Society (198488), as a Board
Member of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (198892), and as
a Board Member of the British Council. In 1988, Sir Roger
became the Chief Executive of the Oxford University Press,
serving in that capacity until 1993; he was also President of
the UK Publishers Association 199394.
Now an Emeritus Professor at Oxford he retains some research
interests in the properties of solids and publishing interests
as Chairman of ICSU Press, the Scientific Information Committee
of the International Council of Scientific Unions. In recent
years, he has been active in representing the view of ICSU and
the Royal Society in work on EU Directives on Databases and
Copyright Harmonization.
Jane Ginsburg
Jane C. Ginsburg is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary
and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law.
She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Doctorate
in law from the University of Paris II. She is a co-author of
the casebooks
Copyright for the Nineties
(4th ed., Michie, 1994) and
Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law
(2d ed., Michie, 1996), the author of
Legal Methods: Cases and Materials
(Foundation Press, 1996), and of numerous articles on domestic
and international copyright law.
Marci A. Hamilton
Professor Hamilton is the Director of the Intellectual Property
Program at Cardozo Law School in New York. She has written
extensively on intellectual property, computer science law, and
first amendment issues. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty,
Professor Hamilton was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's law clerk
at the time the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the 1991
Feist
decision. She holds degrees from Vanderbilt, Penn State, and
the University of Pennsylvania, where she was Editor-in-Chief
of the
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
.
C. Dean Hammond
Mr. Hammond is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Hammond, Inc.,
one of the nation's largest publishers of maps and geographic
directories. Prior to becoming Chairman in 1995, Mr. Hammond
had served in various positions at the company, including
regional sales manager, director of marketing, and President
(from 1987 to 1995). As a producer of maps, Hammond, Inc. both
compiles valuable databases and relies on substantial amounts
of government-generated geographic data. Mr. Hammond attended
Susquehanna University and Stetson Law School.
Peter Jaszi
Peter Jaszi is Professor of Law at the Washington College of
Law at American University, where he teaches courses on
domestic and international copyright. He is the author of
numerous articles on copyright history and theory as well as
co-authoring (with Joyce, Patry, and Leafer) Copyright Law.
Professor Jaszi is one of the founders of the Digital Future
Coalition. He was educated at Harvard University.
Jennifer Krueger
Ms. Krueger is Assistant Director for Electronic Resources at
the Science, Industry and Business Library of The New York
Public Library (NYPL). Ms. Krueger is one of the primary
decision makers for licensing database resources for all four
of the NYPL's research libraries and has personally been
involved in contract and license negotiations with over 25 such
vendors. Currently the NYPL Science, Industry, and Business
Library provides free public access to over 45 licensed
resources through CDROM, network, modem, and web access.
Prior to joining the New York Public Library in 1993, Ms.
Krueger worked in corporate information centers, specializing
in market research. She received her BS in Mathematics from
Tufts University in 1985 and her MS in Library and Information
Science from Simmons College in 1988.
Robert Ledley
Robert Ledley is Professor of Physiology and of Radiology at
the Medical School of Georgetown University. He is the
principal investigator of the Protein Information Resource.
Started in the 1960's, the Resource is the world's foremost
protein sequence database. Professor Ledley earned his degrees
from Columbia and New York University. He has been a professor
of electrical engineering at George Washington University; he
authored the first comprehensive textbook on digital computer
engineering in 1960. In 1990, Professor Ledley was inducted
into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame for the invention of
the body CT scan. In 1997, the President awarded him the
National Medal of Technology.
Eric Lee
Mr. Lee is the Public Policy Director of the Commercial
Internet eXchange Association (CIX), the oldest Internet trade
association in the United States. Prior to joining CIX, he was
Washington advocate for Technology and Infrastructure issues
for AT&T and has served on the staff of the US Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Mr. Lee
holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an AB from Princeton
University.
Jim McGlinchey
Mr. McGlinchey heads the Office of Intellectual Property and
Competition in the State Department. As a career diplomat since
1975, he has served in U.S. missions in Warsaw, Kuala Lumpur,
Jakarta, Canberra, Perth, and Lisbon. He has also worked at the
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Mr. McGlinchey was
educated at Rutgers, South Dakota State University, and the
University of Kansas as well as receiving his Masters of Public
Policy from Harvard University in 1982.
Shira Perlmutter
Ms. Perlmutter is the Associate Register of Copyrights for
Policy and International Affairs; in that capacity, she was
responsible for the preparation of the Copyright Office’s
1997 Report on Legal Protection for Databases. In addition to
working on domestic legislation, Ms. Perlmutter served on the
U.S. delegation to the 1996 WIPO Diplomatic Conference. From
1990 to 1995, she was a law professor at The Catholic
University of America, where she taught Copyright Law,
Trademarks and Unfair Competition, and International
Intellectual Property Law. Ms. Perlmutter received her AB from
Harvard University and her JD from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Charles Phelps
Mr. Phelps is Provost of the University of Rochester, a post he
has held since 1994. Prior to becoming Provost, Mr. Phelps had
served Rochester as Chairman of the medical school's Department
of Community and Preventative Medicine and, prior to that, as
director of the Public Policy Analysis Program. He has served
on the Board of three professional journals, including the
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. He holds a BA from Pomona
College as well as an MBA and a Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Chicago. From 1971 to 1984, Mr. Phelps was an
economist at the RAND Corporation.
J. H. Reichman
J. H. Reichman is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University
School of Law. He graduated from the University of Chicago and
Yale Law School. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt,
Professor Reichman has taught at Ohio State University, the
University of Michigan, and the University of Rome. Professor
Reichman was a participant in the National Research Council's
study of databases published as
Bits of Power
(1997). He is the author of numerous articles on domestic and
international intellectual law, including co-authoring with
Pamela Samuelson, "Intellectual Property Rights in Data?" 50
Vanderbilt Law Review 51 (1997).
Jorge Reinbothe
Dr. Reinbothe is Head of the European Commission's Unit DG
XV/E-4, which handles all copyright and neighboring rights
issues for the European Union. In that capacity, he
participated in the development of the EU's Database Directive.
Prior to joining the European Commission in 1988, Dr. Reinbothe
had served as a Counselor in Germany's mission to the United
Nations (New York) and had been spokesman for the German
Federal Ministry of Justice. He studied law at the Universities
of Freiburg, Lausanne, and Munich as well as doing graduate
legal studies at the University of Michigan Law School.
Jan Rosen
Jan Rosen is Professor of Media Law at the Stockholm School of
Economics as well as teaching intellectual property and media
law courses at the University of Stockholm. He has published
over fifty articles on intellectual property, competition, and
media law, as as books on
Publishing Rights
(1989),
Media Law
(1993), and
Swedish Software Law
(1995). He is deputy chairman of the Swedish Copyright Society
and has been involved in a variety of issues affecting
databases, including cases involving Scandinavian "catalog"
laws and implementation of the European Database Directive in
Sweden.
Paul F. Uhlir
Mr. Uhlir is an Associate Director for Special Projects at the
National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, D.C., where he
directs science and technology policy studies for the Federal
Government. His current focus is on interrelationship issues of
science, technology, and law, with primary focus on S&T
data and information policy. Prior to joining the NRC in 1985,
Mr. Uhlir worked on remote sensing law and policy issues in the
General Counsel's office at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration of the Commerce Department. Mr.
Uhlir has a law degree and Master's degree in international
relations from the University of San Diego, and a Bachelor's
degree in history from the University of Oregon. He is the
author or editor of over fifty technical articles and reports.
Paul Warren
Mr. Warren is Executive Publisher of Warren Publishing, Inc.,
one of the Nation's foremost publishers of newsletters and
directories for the telecommunications industry. The company
was formed in 1945 and is perhaps best-known for its
Communications Daily
and its
Television and Cable Factbook
. Recently, Warren Publishing settled a long-standing suit with
Microdos Corp.,
Warren Publishing, Inc. V. Microdos Data Corp.
, 115 F.3d 1509 (11th Cir.)
cert. denied
, 118 S.Ct. 397 (1997). Before joining the company, Mr. Warren
began his career as a news reporter with the Rochester
Times-Union
and the Hornell (N.Y.)
Evening Tribune
. He is a graduate of Le Moyne College in Syracuse and Gonzaga
College High School in Washington, D.C. Mr. Warren is a Board
member of the Copyright Clearance Center.
Andreas Wiebe
Dr. Wiebe teaches at the Institute of Legal Informatics at the
University of Hanover, Germany and is the author of several
articles on intellectual property and computer/law issues,
including "Legal Protection of Databases and European
Harmonization",
Computer und Recht
, 1996, and "Information as Protectable Subject Matter within
Intellectual Property Systems", 2
Multimedia und Recht
1998. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia
and is a member of the German Intellectual Property Law
Association, the German Society for Law and Informatics, and
the American Computer Law Association.
Joel Rothstein Wolfson
Joel Rothstein Wolfson is Associate General Counsel for the
Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. and heads Nasdaq’s contracts and
intellectual property practice group. He has authored several
articles, particularly on Article 2B issues. Mr. Wolfson is a
member of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers,
the Association of Computing Machinery, and Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility. He holds a BS in
Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and a JD from
Cornell Law School.
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