WilliamMcGeveran

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William McGeveran is a fellow in the Digital Media Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Bill’s primary work at the Berkman Center explores the ways in which copyright law constrains the use of content in teaching and scholarship -- and particularly whether that law may prevent the full realization of educational benefits to be gained from the transfer to a digital environment. When scholars and teachers create or disseminate content, their goals and incentives are quite different from those of other actors in the copyright sphere. As a result, existing legal regimes and business models may not meet their needs in full. In addition, Bill’s research interests include data privacy, digital democracy, and the application of fair use concepts to trademark law. He has published law review articles about the data privacy costs of disclosing political contributions on the internet and the use of intelligent agents to enhance data privacy. Before coming to the Center, Bill was an intellectual property litigator at Foley Hoag LLP and a law clerk to Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He also worked as an aide in the U.S. House of Representatives with responsibility for intellectual property legislation. Bill received his J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law and his B.A. magna cum laude in political science from Carleton College. He will start his career as a law professor at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2006.