About the Author

• Author: Lesley Ellen Harris
• Profession: Lawyer, author, and educator
• Pages: 339-340

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About the Author

Lesley Ellen Harris is an author, educator, and lawyer. She earned

her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1985 and was called to

the Ontario Bar in 1987. From 1987 through 1991, she worked as

Senior Copyright O cer, Heritage Canada, revising Canada ’s copy-

right laws. Since 1991, Ms. Harris has wr itten screenplays (and even

had one optioned!), books, articles, blog posts, and tweets; taught

thousands of nonlawyer students about copyright; and consulted on

Canadian, Amer ican, and international copyright issues with a variety

of organizations.

Ms. Harris develops and teaches in-person and online courses at the

university level, as professional development in conjunction with several

professional associations, and through Copyrightlaws.com . At the profes-

sional development level, Ms. Har ris ’s goal is to provide practical courses

that help nonlawyers manage their copyright and licensing issues.

Ms. Harris works with for-pro t and nonpro t organizations, pub-

lishers, libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, corpora-

tions, associations, and government departments to create educational

materials on copyright, copyright compliance policies, permissions

guidelines and procedures, ensuring copyright compliance in digital

projects, measures to protect content and monitor unauthorized uses of

content, and much more. Her approach is pragmatic, business- oriented,

and strategic.

Ms. Harris has spoken on copyright law at conferences in the United

States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.

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