Professor
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Professor Lipinski is the Dean of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He completed his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received the Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and the Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lipinski has worked in a variety of legal settings including the private, public and non-profit sectors.
He is the author of several monographs: THE LIBRARY’S LEGAL ANSWER BOOK co-authored with Mary Minow (2003); the COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE DISTANCE EDUCATION CLASSROOM (2005), THE COMPLETE COPYRIGHT LIABILITY HANDBOOK FOR LIBRARIANS AND EDUCATORS (2006), and THE LIBRARIAN’S LEGAL COMPANION FOR LICENSING INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES (2012). Two 2016 ebooks from ALA Editions and co-authored with Mary Minow and Gretchen McCord are entitled THE LIBRARY’S LEGAL ANSWERS MEETING ROOMS AND DISPLAYS and THE LIBRARY’S LEGAL ANSWERS FOR MAKERSPACES.
Recent articles and chapters include, with Martin J. Brennan, Legal Issues in the Development and Use of Copyrighted Material in HANDBOOK OF DISTANCE EDUCATION (4th edition, Michael Grahame Moore editor, 2018) (forthcoming); The Law and Economics of Recognizing the Right to Be Forgotten in an Era of Fake News, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION ETHICS, Fall, 2018, at 66.
In 2006 he was the first named Global Law Fellow, Faculty of Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium where continues to lecture annually. He is active in copyright education and policy-making, chairing the ACRL Copyright Discussion Group from 2013 to 2016, former member and now Expert Advisor to the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of IFLA and serves as head of an NGO delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Other Rights.
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