Kyle K. Courtney

Kyle K. Courtney, both lawyer and librarian, is Director of Copyright and Information Policy at Harvard University, working out of Harvard Library. He works to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright issues among Harvard staff, faculty, and students. His award-winning Copyright First Responders program is in its 10th year and has spread from Harvard to 14 states across the U.S. He also currently teaches research sections at Harvard Law School, training first year law students on the fundamentals of legal research in the first year Legal Research and Writing program.

He is a published author and nationally recognized speaker on the topics of copyright, libraries, and the law. He has a fellowship at NYU Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, an Advisor to the American Law Institute's project on the Restatement of Copyright, and co-founder and Board Chair of two non-profits: Library Futures and the eBooks Study Group. His writing on copyright has appeared in Politico, The Hill, Library Journal, American Libraries and other publications. He co-authored the seminal work “A White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending (CDL).” He holds a J.D. with distinction in Intellectual Property Law and an MSLIS.