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Elizabeth Townsend Gard

Elizabeth Townsend Gard

Affiliate Scholar

I have now been a non-resident fellow at CIS since 2004. My work currently looks at copyright duration in a comparative and international context, and with the help of my brilliant students at Tulane, we are building a software tool --the Durationator -- to make usable the past once more. We hope to have it complete and available for use sometime in the Fall 2008.

Title:Affiliate Scholar
Links:Faculty Bio
Contact:townsend@tulane.edu
Focus Areas:Copyright and Fair Use
Areas of Expertise:Copyright Intellectual Property

Recent articles

Press • Oct 17, 2019

Tulane Law School's Copyright Lab Leverages the dtSearch® Engine with Contegra Development Work for Durationator® Worldwide Copyright System

""dtSearch provided the tool to take on the challenge of searching the records," says Elizabeth Townsend Gard, creator of the Durationator projec…

Press • Jun 4, 2018

Business startups are on the rise, helped by Internet tools

"But lately, startups have learned to use the internet to their advantage whenever possible. “The climate for startups has improved since 2010,” Elizabeth…

Press • Nov 30, 2017

The Copyright Mavericks

"Townsend-Gard dreams of a world where librarians and researchers and students don’t have to waste time on copyright determinations. “I really believe that…

Press • Oct 22, 2017

Tulane, Southern law clinics offer entrepreneurs intellectual property help

""We get questions all the time about, 'Can you help me with my patent?' But we couldn't until we got certification," said Elizabeth…

Press • Oct 19, 2017

Internet Archive Hopes to Help Libraries Make Available Books Once Thought Trapped By Copyright

"“It turns out there’s a lot of weird questions that come up,” Townsend Gard says. The substitution of a comma for a colon in a book’s title can be enough…

Multimedia • Nov 19, 2015

Public domain or copyrighted material?

The song “Happy Birthday” has a long, litigious history dating back to the 1930s. Every year, people spent millions in royalties to use the song, until a class…

Blog • Dec 20, 2014

New Year's Resolution: Be better at blogging

I've been a CIS non-resident fellow (or now faculty afflilaite) now for a decade, beginning in 2004. I love being associated with CIS, and many of my close…

Blog • Jan 1, 2009

Happy Public Domain Day - January 1, 2009 - new additions to unpublished public domain in the U.S.

January 1 is Public Domain Day--the day when new works around the world come into the public domain. Some countries, the term of copyright is life of the autho…

Blog • Jul 3, 2008

A Simple tool relating to " Google Book Search Adds Copyright Renewal Data"

We made a simple program... There's been a good deal of posts about Google's XLM file of copyright renewal records, mainly of books. See http://creati…

Blog • Apr 2, 2007

Guest Blogging at Terra Nova

Just a quick post to say that I will be guest blogging at Terra Nova this month. I, along with my 2L research assistant, Rachel Goda, will be discussing our cu…

Blog • Nov 25, 2006

We All Now Wish We Were Film or Media Studies Professors

So, thanks to the Librarian of Congress, film professors and media studies professors can now make a compilation of film clips for class without breaking the la…

Blog • Mar 16, 2005

News

I've been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship for 2005-06 at the London School of Economics. This will give me time to work on my project COPYRI…