Peter Jaszi Part-Time Regular, MILS WCL | General Academics & Research
- Degrees
- A.B., Harvard University 1968
J.D., Harvard Law School 1971 - Bio
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Peter Jaszi is a Professor Emeritus at Â鶹´«Ã½ Washington College of Law, who writes and lectures about copyright law in historical and cultural contexts. He was a founder of the school’s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and its Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. Having served as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Professor Jaszi remains a member of its journal’s editorial board. During 1993, Professor Jaszi served as a member of the Librarian of Congress’s Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and from 1994 to 2000, he was a principle organizer of the Digital Future Coalition. Since 2005, he has been working with Prof. Patricia Aufderheide to help creative communities develop fair use guidance documents that reflect their particular problems and practices. A new edition of their book, Reclaiming Copyright, was published in 2018 by the University of Chicago Press. In 2007, Professor Jaszi received the Â鶹´«Ã½ Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award.
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