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Copyright First Responders

Get answers to your questions about copyright law and policy.

Have a copyright question? Ask a Copyright First Responder!  

Find Your Copyright First Responder 

Copyright First Responders are located across Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums. They have specialized training on copyright law and policy to help provide information and tackle questions. 

If you have a copyright question, reach out to a Copyright First Responder in your library or in the library that holds the materials you have a question about.

 

Baker Library and Special Collections at Harvard Business School

  • Leslie E. Burmeister: lburmeister@hbs.edu
  • Heather Oswald: hoswald@hbs.edu
  • Rhys Sevier: rsevier@hbs.edu
  • Amy Butler: abutler@hbs.edu

 

Cabot Science Library 

  • Tina Helt: tina_qin@harvard.edu

 

Countway Library at Harvard Medical School

  • Paul Scott Lapinski: psl6@hms.harvard.edu
  • Carolyn Hayes: carolyn_hayes@hms.harvard.edu

 

Fine Arts Library

  • Jessica Evans Brady: jevansbrady@fas.harvard.edu
  • Shalimar Fojas White: shalimar_white@harvard.edu
  • Joanne Bloom: toplyn@fas.harvard.edu

 

Frances Loeb Library at the Graduate School of Design

  • Alix Reiskind: areiskind@gsd.harvard.edu

 

Fung Library (Social Sciences related to Russia, Eurasia, and Japan)

  • Hugh Truslow: truslow@fas.harvard.edu

 

Gutman Library at the Graduate School of Education

  • Carol Kentner: carol_kentner@gse.harvard.edu
  • Carla Lillvik: carla_lillvik@gse.harvard.edu
  • Rebecca Martin: rebecca_martin@gse.harvard.edu
  • Ning Zou: ning_zou@gse.harvard.edu

 

Harvard Art Museums

  • Michelle Interrante: michelle_interrante@harvard.edu

 

Harvard Divinity School Library

  • Jessica Suarez: jsuarez@hds.harvard.edu
  • Rebecca Villarreal: rvillarreal@hds.harvard.edu

 

Harvard Film Archive

  • Amy Sloper: amy_sloper@harvard.edu

 

Harvard Kennedy School Library & Research Services

  • Corinne Wolfson: corinne_wolfson@hks.harvard.edu
  • Alessandra Seiter: alessandra_seiter@hks.harvard.edu
  • Christina Sirois: christina_sirois@hks.harvard.edu
  • Julie Petzold: julie_petzold@harvard.edu

 

Harvard Library Imaging Services

  • Thomas Lingner: lingner@fas.harvard.edu

 

Harvard Library, Information and Technical Services

  • Nancy B. Quinn: bojan@fas.harvard.edu
  • Kristin Stoklosa: stoklosa@fas.harvard.edu
  • Ivonne Nolasco: ivonnenolasco@fas.harvard.edu

 

Harvard University Archives

  • Juliana Kuipers: juliana_kuipers@harvard.edu

 

Houghton Library (Rare Books and Manuscripts)

  • Micah Hoggatt: mhoggatt@fas.harvard.edu
  • Christine Jacobson: christine_jacobson@harvard.edu

 

Lamont Library

  • Emily Coolidge Toker: emily_coolidgetoker@harvard.edu
  • Sue Gilroy: sgilroy@fas.harvard.edu

 

Harvard Law School Library

  • AJ Blechner: ablechner@law.harvard.edu
  • Melinda Kent: mkent@law.harvard.edu
  • Lisa Lilliott Rydin: llilliott@law.harvard.edu
  • Rachel Parker: rparker@law.harvard.edu

 

Library Technology Services

  • Vitaly Zakuta: vitaly_zakuta@harvard.edu

 

Loeb Music Library

  • Kerry Masteller: kmastell@fas.harvard.edu

 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

  • Cynthia Mackey: cynthia_mackey@fas.harvard.edu

 

Schlesinger Library (Women’s History)

  • Joanne Donovan: jdonovan@radcliffe.harvard.edu
  • Diana Carey: dcarey@radcliffe.harvard.edu

 

Tozzer Library (Anthropology)

  • Susan Gilman: sgilman@fas.harvard.edu

 

Widener Library

  • Emily Bell: emilybell@fas.harvard.edu
  • Bassey Irele: birele@fas.harvard.edu 

About the Program

Copyright First Responders help advance teaching, learning, and scholarship through community engagement with copyright. 

Embedded within a library, archive, or department, Copyright First Responders develop information expertise, create a collaborative network of support among their peers involved with copyright issues, and serve as a resource for the Harvard community by answering copyright questions and sharing critical knowledge.

The mission of this service is to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright among Harvard faculty, students, and staff in support of pedagogy, research, and innovation. The program relies on a hub-and-spoke model to respond to copyright inquiries from across Harvard and provides a Harvard-wide network of copyright expertise to draw upon.

The Harvard Library Copyright Advisor program was established in 2014 by Kyle Courtney, Director of Copyright and Information Policy for Harvard Library. Contact Kyle with questions about this program. 

Kyle K. Courtney, Esq.

Harvard University
1 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States