Kenneth Crews

Kenneth D. Crews is an American copyright scholar and librarian. He is particularly noted for his scholarship around educational and library exceptions in copyright law, and was commissioned by WIPO to write an examination of those exceptions around the world. He is a frequent speaker and consultant on library-related copyright matters, and was called for expert testimony in the '' Cambridge University Press v. Becker'' copyright case challenging the practice of Georgia State University's e-reserves system. Crews is noted for pioneering the concept of the "fair use checklist", which has enjoyed widespread use in libraries and academic computing departments.

Crews earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in history, a J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law, and M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees in library science from UCLA."Director, Kenneth D. Crews"
, Columbia University, Copyright Advisory Office (last visited December 13, 2014). His dissertation won awards from both the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

From 1980 to 1990, Crews practiced business and corporate law in Los Angeles."Kenneth Crews" (profile)
Educause (last visited April 14, 2014). His first academic appointment, in 1990, was as Associate Professor of Business Law at San Jose State University. Beginning in 1994, Crews joined the faculty of law and of library & information science at IUPUI, where he established the first university-based copyright office. In 2003, Crews also joined the faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.''Kenneth Crews''
peaker profilebr>"Copyright Exceptions and Limitations"
panel, Yale Law School, September 9, 2008 (last visited December 13, 2014). In 2008, Crews joined Columbia University as the director of the "Copyright Advisory Office" and an adjunct faculty member at the Columbia University law school.

In February 2014 Crews stepped down as director of Columbia's Copyright Advisory Office, and joined a private law firm in Los Angeles, while maintaining ties to the university, and continuing as a faculty member in the Munich program. Dr. Crews has given professional talks on copyright policy in forty-four US states and more than thirty countries of the world.

Earlier in his career, Crews's scholarship focussed on constitutional law and legal history. He is the author of two books on Edward Samuel Corwin, a leading constitutional scholar during the twentieth century.

Notable works

* ''Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education'' (The University of Chicago Press, 1993).

''Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives''
WIPO (2008), which contains a 70-page analysis of the exceptions.

''Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives''
WIPO (2015), which analyses the statutes of all 188 WIPO countries.
* ''Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators'' (1st edition 2000; 3rd edition, 2012).

Awards

* L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award, American Library Association (2005) (first recipient)
* Mark T. Banner Award, American Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law (2014)"2014 Mark T. Banner Award Winners"
American Bar Association (last visited May 31, 2014).

Notes

External links

Columbia Copyright Advisory Office

"A Conversation with Dr. Kenneth Crews"
July 17, 2012

"Who Owns Your Scholarship: Copyright, Publication Agreements, and Good Practice"
(Oct. 29, 2009)

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Living people
Columbia University faculty
American librarians
American lawyers
Copyright scholars
1955 births
Northwestern University alumni
Washington University School of Law alumni
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies alumni