Laura Quilter (born 1968) is a writer, lawyer, librarian, professor, and

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

fan known for both her work on intellectual property and new media, and her long-standing archive of information on

feminist science fiction Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on theories that include feminist themes including but not limited to gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics, reproduction, and environment. Feminist ...

. She received her law degree from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 2003. From 2006 to 2008, she was a writer on Sivacracy.net, a law blog run by

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. She has worked at the

Exploratorium The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California. Characterized as "a mad scientist's penny arcade, a scientific funhouse, and an experimental laboratory all rolled into one", the participatory natur ...

, the Brennan Center Free Expression Policy Project at

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, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at

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, is a contributor to

Chilling Effects Lumen, formerly Chilling Effects, is an American collaborative archive created by Wendy Seltzer and founded along with several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. L ...

, and created the Fair Use Network. Her web site ''Feminist SF, Fantasy, and Utopia'' has been active since 1994. Over the years, the site expanded to become a community of feminist science fiction writers, fans, and critics, with a book discussion list, forums, blog carnival, group blog, and wiki, maintained by Quilter, Liz Henry, Janice Dawley, and other participants. She is also a co-founder of the feministSF wiki.

Works

* Quilter, Laura, and Liz Henry. "Aging and Gender in Science Fiction". ''Women in Science Fiction'' vol. 2, ed. Robin A. Reid, Greenwood Press, 2009.
Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins. "Intellectual Property and Free Speech in the Online World: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices" Free Expression Project Public Policy Report
(2007) *Quilter, Laura, and Jennifer Urban. "Efficient Process or 'Chilling Effects'? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act", 22 Santa Clara Comp. & High Tech. L.J. 621 (2006) *
aura Quilter, Nathan Good, John Han, Elizabeth Miles, et al.. "Radio Frequency Id and Privacy with Information Goods" WPES '04 (2004)

External links

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia

derivative work
Blog on information law and policy.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quilter, Laura 1968 births Living people American feminists Science fiction fans University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty