Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, has been a member of the Columbia Law School faculty since 1987. She teaches Legal Methods, Copyright Law, and Trademarks Law, and is the author or co-author of casebooks in all three subjects. Recent lectures and articles on domestic and international copyright subjects have explored the legal implications of electronic creation and distribution of works of authorship. Professor Ginsburg has taught French and U.S. copyright law and U.S. legal methods and contracts law at the University of Paris and other French universities. A graduate of the University of Chicago (BA 1976, MA 1977), she received a JD in 1980 from Harvard, and a Diplôme d'études approfondies in 1985 and a Doctorate of Law in 1995 from the University of Paris II.

David Nimmer, Of Counsel to Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, California, has authored the semi-annual revisions to Nimmer on Copyright since the death of his father in 1985. Mr. Nimmer has also written extensive articles about the intersection of copyright and technology. An example is an article in the current issue (April 1998) of the Southern California Law Review about Deuteronomy 17:19 and the Internet, entitled Adams and Bits: Of Jewish Kings and Copyrights. In addition, he has an article in the current issue (April 1998) of the New York University Law Review arising out of ISP liability as addressed in the recent Netcom decisions, entitled An Odyssey Through Copyright's Vicarious Defenses. He also represents clients in copyright matters, such as attending the recent Diplomatic Conference in Geneva on behalf of the United States Telephone Association, and Matthew Bender challenging the copyright in the pagination of West law reporters (appeal currently pending before the Second Circuit from summary judgment below against West).

Hank Barry is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. His practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies, with a particular emphasis on the intellectual property issues those companies face. His areas of expertise include business formation, venture capital financing, strategic corporate partnering and licensing, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. He has extensive experience in technology licensing and corporate partnering transactions and completed more than 70 of these transactions in 1997.

Hank has authored numerous articles in the fields of the Internet, interactive media and technology transactions. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Cyberspace Lawyer and the Internet Law Journal.

Prior to joining the firm, Hank was the head of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum's Technology Practice Group in Palo Alto. He previously practiced in the entertainment department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. Hank received his law degree in 1983 from Stanford University, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Michigan in 1980, where he graduated with highest distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1983, Hank received the national first prize in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition for papers on copyright law.

Ms Lucie Guibault is currently project researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. Her activities at IViR focus on copyright issues raised in the information highway, and more particularly on copyright exemptions and contracts. Ms Guibault studied law and received her Master's degree title (LL.M.) at the University of Montreal, after spending a year at the Max-Planck-Institute für Patent- Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht in Munich, where she carried out the research for her thesis on "intellectual property and new technologies." Before joining the Institute for Information Law in the Summer of 1997, Ms Guibault worked in private practice in Montreal, in the intellectual property section of one of the major Canadian law firms. During that time, she acted mainly as counsel for the negotiation of licenses on computer software and other intellectual property material. Prior to that, Ms Guibault also gained experience as a policy analyst for the Canadian Government at the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of the Department of Industry in Ottawa, working namely on the implementation of the TRIPs Agreement and on several other copyright and patent law matters.

Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she teaches courses in copyright law, Internet law and trademarks and unfair competition. She earned a B.A. from Reed College, an M.F.A. (in Theatre) from Southern Methodist University, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Before joining the Wayne faculty in 1990, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Litman is the author of many articles on copyright; her work has been cited by the Supreme Court and reprinted in House hearings. She is a co-author of the second edition of Jane Ginsburg et al., Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials (1996). Professor Litman has testified before Congress and before the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force's Working Group on Intellectual Property. She is a past trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and a past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. She is an Academic Advisor to the American Committee on Interoperable Systems, and serves on the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts and the organizing committee for the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference.

Joel Rothstein Wolfson is an Associate General Counsel for The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. in Washington, D.C. He heads the contracts and intellectual property practice group for Nasdaq. Mr. Wolfson is Chair of the Information Industry Association Committee on the Article 2B revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code. He was graduated with Distinction in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and holds a J.D. from Cornell law School.

This year he is slated to have two law review articles published that are related to Article 2B: "Electronic Mass Information Providers and Section 552 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts : The First Amendment Casts a Long Shadow", 29 Rutgers Law Journal 67 (1997), and "Express Warranties and Published Information Content Under Article 2B: Does the Shoe Fit??", 16 Journal of Computer and Information Law 101 (1997).

He is a past Co-Chair of the Technical Education Committee of the Computer Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar, a member of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers, the Association of Computing Machinery, the Information Systems Security Association, and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.