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Lesley Ellen Harris |
Lesley Ellen Harris has been involved with SLA for several years, speaking and presenting workshops at SLA conferences, teaching online courses in association with Click University, and through her monthly column Info Rights on copyright and licensing issues for SLA's Information Outlook.
Lesley began her career in copyright in the summer of 1984, while a law student. In 1991, after four years working for the Canadian government on revising Canada's copyright laws, Lesley became a consultant on copyright matters. In January 1998, she opened a company that provides seminars on copyright laws and digital rights, Copyrightlaws.com.
Lesley consults on legal issues relating to the arts, entertainment, information and technology, and has an expertise in copyright law. She works with creators, producers, distributors and consumers of intellectual property on such topics as rights planning, management of intellectual property issues, development of copyright and licensing policies, the drafting of agreements, electronic publishing projects, international comparisons, government relations, education, analysis of current and proposed legislation, and researching and writing a broad range of documents. She works on U.S., Canadian and international rights issues including those relating to free trade agreements and international conventions. Clients include libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, for- and not-for-profit organizations of all sizes, governments, and individuals.
In 1991, McGraw-Hill published Lesley's first book, Canadian Copyright Law, now in its 3rd edition (the 4th edition is in progress). Also published by McGraw-Hill (1997; out of print) is Digital Property: Currency of the 21st Century, which has been translated into Chinese. The American Library Association published Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians in 2009. In addition, Lesley publishes The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter, a quarterly electronic newsletter which began in 1997 and now has subscribers from over twenty countries.
Lesley maintains a website, and provides clients and others with free email information on copyright and e-commerce news through her company discussion list (now over ten years old) with over 5,000 subscribers.
Since 2002, Lesley has taught online courses on a variety of copyright-related topics including digital licensing, Canadian copyright law, managing copyright issues, U.S. copyright law, practical international copyright law, and digital content management. These courses have been and/or continue to be offered through Access Copyright (the Canadian copyright licensing agency), the Association of Canadian Publishers, the American Library Association, Copyrightlaws.com, LYRASIS (previously PALINET and SOLINET), OCLC, and NFAIS. Since 2003, Lesley has taught a Master's-level course on copyright through the University of Alberta.
Lesley continues to speak on copyright law at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England and Europe.
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