I'm an attorney who helps people preserve, access, and share information. I'm also a librarian. I serve as the Executive Director of Authors Alliance, a nonprofit that supports authors who want to be read and who want to see their works benefit the world. I often write for the Authors Alliance on Substack.
Previously, I was Duke University's Associate University Librarian for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communications and Lead for Copyright and Information Policy. I was also once a law librarian and Clinical Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, where I still occasionally adjunct teach. Before that, I was part of a project at UC Berkeley School of Law, the Digital Library Copyright Project, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
I went to law school and library school at UNC Chapel Hill and I'm licensed to practice in North Carolina. My wife Janice and I live just outside Chapel Hill on a farm with our four kids.
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