About the Speaker

Brandon Butler is executive director of Re:Create, which supports a pro-innovation, pro-creator, pro-consumer copyright framework. A copyright lawyer and expert on the lawful use of archival materials, Brandon previously served as Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing at the University of Virginia Library. Brandon graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and was an associate at Dow Lohnes LLP (later merged with Cooley LLP), in Washington, D.C. Brandon is the Law and Policy Advisor to the Software Preservation Network, and is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Copyright in Education and Libraries and is the author of a variety of journal articles and book chapters about copyright and fair use. In college, Brandon was the local music reporter for Athens, GA alt-weekly The Flagpole, and he took a semester off to tour the country as a substitute guitarist in his friends’ punk band, Whippersnapper.