ABOUT THE AUTHOR

EVAN BUTTERFIELD

For over 30 years, Evan has been a publishing professional, with an admittedly strange longtime enthusiasm for explaining copyright law and applications to non-lawyer audiences. Evan received his MA in English from the University of Illinois-Urbana, and his JD from DePaul University in Chicago, both a very very long time ago.

From 1995 to 2008, Evan was an editor, writer, Publisher, and Vice-President of Product Development at Kaplan Professional Publishing. While at Kaplan,  he  published several award-winning articles and gave regular formal presentations about copyright law to industry audiences, educators, and state regulators.

At the IEEE Computer Society, where he worked from 2008 to 2018, Evan was Director of Products & Services, overseeing more than thirty magazines, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books on computer science. At IEEE, Evan continued to speak on copyright issues at conferences in the US and abroad, contributed copyright and plagiarism chapters to a technical writing book, launched new digital delivery strategies for print publications, and helped lead the development of licensing and open access policies.

After retiring from the publishing world, Evan has been teaching copyright and trademark classes for the Art Institute of Las Vegas, and for several years has taught an online criminal intellectual property course at Arizona State University. Building on the focus of Copyright for Creatives, Evan has worked with the NEST organization to create short course on intellectual property law for craftspeople, and published several educational posts for the Craft Industry Alliance. Some of the content that was created for those organizations is included in the second edition of Copyright for Creatives.

Evan lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his husband and cat, and is a creative person himself: he has been publishing and displaying his own odd photography for many years.

If you have questions about Copyright for Creatives, you can email Evan at copyrightforcreatives@gmail.com

Note that the author is not providing or offering legal advice. Responses to email are only the author’s personal observations about the topic and how it may apply to your specific question.  If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, you should contact a competent licensed professional familiar with IP law.