Nancy Kopans is Secretary and General Counsel of JSTOR, a not-for-profit online archive of the full back run of over 464 scholarly journals which serves more than 2,360 libraries, universities, and other non-profit entities in over 85 countries. At JSTOR, Kopans is responsible for, among other areas, advising the organization on intellectual property and licensing issues. Prior to joining JSTOR, she was an associate in the New York law firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindel. Kopans is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Copyright and Literary Property, The Copyright Society, and the American Bar Association, Section on Intellectual Property Law. She formerly was chair of the ABA Committee on Database Protection Legislation's Subcommittee on Protection of U.S. Databases. She is a former member of the Board of Advisors of the Boston chapter of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and currently is a member of the Board of Trustees of Adults and Children with Learning and Developmental Disabilities. Kopans received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A. and M. Phil. from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University, where she was a member of The Tax Lawyer.
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