Kyle K. Courtney

Kyle K. Courtney is an attorney, librarian, and the first Copyright Advisor at Harvard University, working out of Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication. In this role he works closely with the Harvard community to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright issues among staff, faculty, and students. His Copyright First Responders (CFR) copyright training program is in its 9th year at Harvard. The CFR program has spread beyond its origins at Harvard to train and form CFR communities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. Kyle has worked as the Copyright and Information Policy Advisor for HarvardX, was named a National Academic Library Mover & Shaker, helped coordinate and launch Fair Use Week, co-founded Library Futures, and was awarded a Knight grant to develop a web-based “Fair Use and Copyright Tool.” He is a published author and nationally recognized speaker on the topic of copyright, technology, libraries, and the law. His blog is at kylecourtney.com and you can follow him on Twitter @KyleKCourtney