STM Copyright and Legal Affairs Committee
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Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Elsevier, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Mark joined the Elsevier science and medical publishing division of Reed Elsevier in 1995 as General Counsel (previously with Reed Elsevier USA Legal Department from 1989-1995). Leads organization of 12 lawyers (European and American) supporting the Elsevier business globally. Principal operational responsibilities: public policy, copyright policy and enforcement, corporate organization, M&A. Chair, Legal Affairs/Copyright Committee, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (http://www.stm-assoc.org). Member of Copyright Committee, Association of American Publishers. Frequent speaker/panelist on copyright and public policy issues at publishing and scientific conferences. Education: Thomas Jefferson College, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA (B.Ph, Literature); Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Mass., USA (J.D., cum laude). Member, Massachusetts and New York bars. Email: m.seeley@elsevier.com |
| Joe Appel, New England Journal of Medicine - Massachusetts Medical Society | |
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Tracey Armstrong is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Copyright Clearance Center and brings more than 20 years of experience in rights management and with CCC to the industry. Leading the organization through a period of phenomenal change and challenge, she has helped transform CCC's licensing solutions to meet the needs of today's digital publishing world. Ms. Armstrong works with publishers, authors, universities, businesses and industry associations around the world, addressing copyright concerns and establishing new international alliances. In addition, she frequently speaks at industry conferences and events as a thought leader on digital copyright licensing issues.
E-mail: tarmstrong@copyright.com |
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Ian Bannerman is Managing Director of Journals at Taylor & Francis.
He began his career in academic publishing with Blackwell in 1988, and has held a variety of management roles in Production, Marketing, Sales and Online Product Development. He was one of the pioneers in developing online sales models and platforms for the academic library market. In addition to serving on the STM Board, Ian is an active member of the Copyright Committee, the Strategic and Public Affairs Committee and the organizing committee for the STM Masterclass. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the Board that governs Crossref. |
| Robin Bodishbaugh, American Society of Clinical Oncology | |
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Marc Brodsky, American Institute of Physics |
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| Annika Dirks, Springer Science+Business Media (maternity leave until September 2010) | |
| Vivienne Dunlop , WK Health | |
| Kevin Fitzgerald, Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd | |
| Barbara Kalumenos, STM | |
| Michael Mabe, STM | |
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Wiebke Moellering, Springer |
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| Rosemary Heald, Institute of Physics Publishing | |
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Guido F. Herrmann has a 10 years background in the publishing industry and currently works as a Managing Director at Thieme Publishers (www.thieme-chemistry.com). Since 2008 he is a member of the STM Copyright Committee of the International Association of STM Publishers. Since 2005 he acts as the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany.
He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover, Germany. He received academic training in chemistry (Ph.D.) and business studies (M.B.A.). |
| Roy Kaufman, Wiley-Blackwell | |
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Kim Lenart is the senior lawyer for the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd ("BMJ Group").
She has been practising law since 1995 and has worked for the BMJ Group since 2002. Her current remit includes advising on and drafting a wide range of licensing agreements for the BMJ Group, along with its other commercial and corporate contracts. She also advises on a raft of other issues relating to intellectual property protection strategies, corporate governance, joint ventures, acquisitions, website compliance and data protection and also provides some in-house training for the BMJ Group. Kim is also a subject director for legal courses for ALPSP. |
| Jack Ochs, American Chemical Society | |
| Mayya Revzina, The World Bank, Office of the Publisher | |
| Carol Richman, Sage | |
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Alicia Wise is Chief Executive of the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and Digital Consultant to The Publishers Association (PA). PLS is the not-for-profit organisation owned by ALPSP, the PA, and the PPA that oversees collective licensing arrangements for UK publishers. PLS distributes approximately £25m per annum in copyright royalties to publishers. Alicia holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the publishing industry she worked as an academic and archaeologist, then joined the Joint Information Systems Committee first to manage national negotiations for access to a broad array of intellectual property and then to direct research and development programmes to stimulate the innovative use of information technology in further and higher education.
E-mail: A.Wise@pls.org.uk |
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Outside Counsel - Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Legal Counsel
Carlo specialises in copyright law, licensing and litigation. He is an attorney admitted to practice in Switzerland and South Africa. Carlo's law firm is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Carlo advises STM and other publishers world-wide on copyright law, policy and legal affairs, as well as some film, record and software producers. Carlo writes articles and speeks frequently about copyright and related matters. He also recently updated the "Forms and Precedents" series of Butterworths-Lexis Nexis (South Africa), "Entertainment Law" (2006) and "Computer Law" (2005). |
The Aims of the Copyright & Legal Affairs Committee
To pursue, within the limits of the STM Association's aims and objectives, the highest possible level of international protection of copyright works and of the services of publishers in making these works available;
To advise and provide guidelines on the legal aspects of various approaches to rights acquisition and management including best practices guides on the balancing of rights required for publishing and communication needs in the scholarly community;
To enhance and improve awareness and knowledge of copyright and related rights, in particular on the international level, among publishers as well as all other members of the academic and scholarly community and those otherwise involved in the management or transfer of rights;
To prevent and fight piracy and all other unauthorized uses of protected publisher products world-wide in conjunction with other relevant organizations.
Enforcement Task Force
Recognizing that STM needs a regular active group monitoring copyright enforcement priorities, principally in the area of unauthorized document delivery services, the Copyright & Legal Affairs Committee formed a task force within the Committee, which meets on a regular basis to discuss the overall program, investigation results, and strategies and tactics with respect to negotiations and discussions.
- Tracey Armstrong, Copyright Clearance Center
- Wiebke Moellering, Springer
- Paul Doda, Elsevier
- Frederic Haber, Copyright Clearance Center
- Guido Herrmann, Georg Thieme Verlag KG
- Roy Kaufman, Wiley-Blackwell
- Carol Richman, Sage
- Mark Seeley, Chair, Elsevier
- Outside Counsel - Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Bill Strong (Kotin Crabtree & Strong)
