Our advisory board

We are a group of great people committed to helping people who work in museums, libraries, and archives better understand copyright and develop relevant strategies for working with copyright. 

Many of us are also faculty for OCEAN.

Chair, OCEAN Advisory Board 

Director, Copyright Advisory Services


Columbia University Libraries

Ocean Faculty

Vice Chair, OCEAN Advisory Board 

Director, Library Copyright Office

University of Michigan

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Ocean Faculty

Copyright Advisor

Harvard University Library

Copyright First Responders 

Ocean Faculty

Assistant General Counsel, Director of Information Policy

New York Public Library

Ocean Faculty


Program Director for Scholarly Communication and Information Policy 

Yale University Library

Ocean Faculty


Associate University Librarian for Distinctive Collections & Chief Policy Strategist

UCLA Library

Scholarly Communications Officer 

University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)

Library Copyright Institute



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Executive Director

Authors Alliance


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Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Scholarly Communications

Miami University Libraries

Miami University of Ohio Copyright Conference

Digital Asset Manager

Menil Collection

Chair, IP Special Interest Group, Museum Computer Network

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Editor, Rights & Reproductions Handbook 

Director of Legal Affairs & Intellectual Property, Newfields 

Ocean Faculty



Past Advisory Board Members


Jonathan Cain

Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning

Columbia University Libraries


Mikka Gee Conway

Formerly Assistant General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Museum


Annie Peterson

Program Leader, LYRASIS Learning


Erin Tripp

Director, Research and Innovation, LYRASIS

Acknowledgement of Discussants at Columbia meeting and Reviewers 

We gratefully acknowledge the generous time and collegial spirit of our friends who shared their copyright expertise in our planning meeting in July 2019 and reviewers.