Mimi Calter is the Assistant University Librarian & Chief of Staff, at Stanford University Libraries. As the Special Projects Librarian & Intellectual Property Manager for the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), she developed the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, which assists copyright researchers in assessing the renewal status of US works. She also coordinates copyright policy for the library, and manages the intellectual property of William Saroyan, whose copyrights came to Stanford along with his archive.
     Prior to joining SULAIR, Mimi was a Knowledge Manager for the Technology, Media & Telecom industry group for the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs, where she developed and maintained systems and ontologies for managing internal work product, in addition to providing reference and research services. She worked as a researcher at PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining GS, and spent the early part of her career working in technical publishing.
     Mimi received a Masters in Library & Information Science from Drexel University in 1997, and a BA in English from the University Of Pennsylvania in 1990.

Anne Bast is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Intellectual Property Associate.  She holds an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a certificate in Cultural Heritage Studies from the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris.  Over the past five years Anne has worked in libraries, museums and archives in the US and France, leading her to develop a keen interest in the intersection of cultural heritage institutions, information systems and intellectual property.

Jason M. Schultz is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Before joining Boalt Hall as a faculty member in the Samuelson Clinic, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation  (EFF), one of the leading digital rights groups in the world. At EFF, Schultz handled numerous high-profile intellectual property and technology matters affecting the public’s interests in free expression, fair use, and innovation with an emphasis on issues of copyright law, reverse engineering, digital rights management, and patent law reform.
     Schultz’s writing primarily focuses on the ongoing struggle to balance intellectual property regimes with the public interest in free expression, access to knowledge, and innovation in light of new technologies and the challenges they pose.