Peter Jaszi
Peter Jaszi is a world-renowned expert on copyright law. He is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., where he was a founder of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) and of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Peter has served as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and currently sits on the Editorial Board of its Journal. With Pat Aufderheide, Peter served as a drafter of the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices on Fair Use, which led to the creation of more than a dozen fair use statements tailored to creative communities, as well as the book Reclaiming Fair Use. Peter is the author of numerous law review articles about copyright and fair use, including “Copyright, Fair Use and Motion Pictures.” Peter’s IMDB page represents a sampling of the film and television projects he has advised on fair use and related issues. Peter went to college and law school in Cambridge, Massachussetts, where he also taught film studies classes and (from 1969 to 1971) managed the Orson Welles Cinema, programming archival treasures and independent films. When he returned to his hometown of Washington, D.C., Peter briefly operated another art house theater, the Capitol Hill I & II.
Peter is admitted to the bar in Washington, DC.
Brandon Butler
Brandon Butler is a copyright lawyer and expert on the lawful use of archival materials. From 2016-2024, Brandon was the Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing at the University of Virginia Library. Previously, he was the Practitioner-in-Residence at the American University Washington College of Law’s Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property Clinic, where he taught courses on copyright and fair use, and supervised student attorneys in the representation of artists, filmmakers, publishers, authors, and entrepreneurs in a variety of intellectual property matters. Brandon was also the Director of Public Policy at the Association of Research Libraries, where he advocated for fair copyright and intellectual freedom on behalf of the nation’s most prominent academic and research libraries. Brandon graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and was an associate at Dow Lohnes LLP (later merged with Cooley LLP), in Washington, D.C. Brandon is the Law and Policy Advisor to the Software Preservation Network, and is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Copyright in Education and Libraries and is the author of a variety of journal articles and book chapters about copyright and fair use. In college, Brandon was the local music reporter for Athens, GA alt-weekly The Flagpole, and he took a semester off to tour the country as a substitute guitarist in his friends’ punk band, Whippersnapper.
Brandon is admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C.