New Intellectual Property Scholar and Collectanea Blogger: Peter Jaszi

["Steven Petersen" <SPetersen@umuc.edu>]

The Center for Intellectual Property is pleased and excited to 
announce that Professor Peter Jaszi is the CIP's 2009-2011 
Intellectual Property Scholar...and in that capacity he will now 
be moderating the CIP's (C)ollectanea blog. Please join him 
online now!

In addition to being the Center's new IP Scholar, Peter Jaszi is 
faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property 
Law Clinic and professor of law in the Washington College of Law 
at American University in Washington, DC. He holds expertise in 
intellectual property and copyright law and has written many 
chapters, articles and monographs on copyright, intellectual 
property, technology and other issues. Among his writings and 
scholarly contributions are numerous resources concerning fair 
use in copyright, including best practices documents, produced in 
close collaboration with the Center for Social Media at American 
University.

Read Professor Jaszi's first blog post--and many more to come--at 
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/. In his first post 
today--"Just when you thought you'd heard enough about Shepherd 
Fairey and the AP"--he discusses the copyright issues surrounding 
Fairey, Fair Use, and photography.

Professor Jaszi is excited about his role as a blogger and 
invites you to join him on (C)ollectanea, where you can read, 
reflect, and respond.

Check it out and be a part of the (C)ollectanea conversation --
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/.
You can also subscribe to the feed at either
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/atom.xml or
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/index.xml.

Steven Petersen
Graduate Assistant
Center For Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD  20783
(240) 582-2865 office
(240) 582-2961 fax
spetersen@umuc.edu