Dave Hansen

David Hansen is the Digital Library Fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law. This position was created specifically to assist in the research outputs of the Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project, which aims to investigate copyright obstacles faced by libraries and other like-minded organizations in their efforts to realize the full potential of present and future digital library initiatives. David joined the Digital Library Copyright Project in September 2011. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked in the Office of Scholarly Communications at Duke University Libraries. While there he worked on numerous open access and library copyright issues. He has also spent time in many law library settings, most recent at UNC School of Law, and at North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (M.S.L.S., pending – May 2012; J.D., magna cum laude); University of North Carolina at Charlotte (B.S. Economics, magna cum laude).
Member: North Carolina State Bar, American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries (and Southeastern Chapter).

Recent publications include:

Orphan Works: Definitional Issues (White Paper No. 1, Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project 2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974614.

A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries, 22 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP., MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 1 (2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1910957.

Copyright Policy and Practice in ARL Libraries’ Electronic Reserves: A Survey, 73 COLL. & RES. LIBRS. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2011/11/29/crl-313.