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Peter Jaszi

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Name
  
Peter Jaszi


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Author


Books
  
Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright

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Peter Jaszi is a widely known expert on copyright law and author, with Patricia Aufderheide, of Reclaiming Fair Use (2012), which examines the state of fair use and the importance to scholarship, art, and free expression of strengthening the doctrine.

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Jaszi earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1968 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1971. Jaszi is currently Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, and Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic.

Jaszi was one of the founders in 1995 of the "Digital Future Coalition", an organization of library associations and other public interest groups engaging in copyright advocacy during the late 1990s. Jaszi has testified numerous times before Congress on copyright matters, and in 1994 served on the Librarian of Congress' Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit. Jaszi also serves as a trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the primary scholarly society dedicated to copyright law.

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Awards

  • Lyman Ray Patterson Copyright Award, from the American Library Association (2007)
  • Champion of Intellectual Property, IP Section of the District of Columbia Bar (2009)
  • IP3 Award, Public Knowledge (2011)
  • References

    Peter Jaszi Wikipedia