Kyle K. Courtney, Esq.

Kyle K. Courtney is an attorney presently working at Harvard Law School as the manager of Faculty Research and Scholarship. His work at Harvard also includes a role as the copyright and information policy advisor for HarvardX, and founding the first Harvard Copyright Working Group, an outgrowth of the Harvard Library Lab grant he was awarded to develop a web-based "Fair Use and Copyright Tool" for use by the Harvard Library community.  He runs a copyright law consulting practice for libraries, higher education institutions, non-profit groups, and specialized archives.  He also currently maintains a dual appointment at Northeastern University, teaching Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights for the interdisciplinary Information Assurance program at the College of Computer and Information Science (http://cyberlaw101.wordpress.com), and as a Faculty Scholar for the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at the School of Law.  He holds a J.D. with distinction in Intellectual Property Law. He earned his MLIS from Simmons College in Boston. He is a published author and writes a monthly column on research methods for Massachusetts Lawyer's Weekly. Kyle's latest chapter on copyright law and libraries is forthcoming in Libraries in the Digital Age, by Scarecrow Press. Kyle is on Twitter: @KyleKCourtney and his main blog is at http://kylecourtney.com/