LAURA N. GASAWAY  (LOLLY)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law




Contact Information:  School of Law, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Van Hecke Wettach Building, Room 5009
Office Phone Number: 919-962-8501
 
EMail:laura_gasaway@unc.edu 

Courses

Copyright Law
Cyberspace Law
Intellectual Property
Copyright Law for Librarians

Research Interests

Copyright law; Copyright & technology; Cyberspace legal issues

Other Interests

Mysteries, travel, gardening & my West Highland Terrier, Hyacinth Bucket and Tulip Lee (1991-04)

Education

B.A., M.L.S. Texas Woman's University, 1967, 1968
J.D. University of Houston 1973

Licensed, Texas 1974

Publications

(Books)

GET COPYRIGHT RIGHT; THE BEST OF COPYRGHT CORNER FROM SLA'S INFORMATION 
OUTLOOK (2006)

GROWING PAINS: ADAPTING COPYRIGHT FOR LIBRARIES, EDUCATION & SOCIETY (1997)

LIBRARIES & COPYRIGHT: A GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT LAW FOR THE 1990s (1994)

LAW LIBRARIANSHIP: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (1996)

(Recent Articles & Book Chapters)

Electronic Reserves and Copyright:  A Collision Course?  in THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HANDBOOK (ed. Kimberly M. Bonner 2006)

Law Librarians Lobby for Library Users, in THE SPIRIT OF LAW LIBRARIANSHIP READER (Roy M. Mersky & 
Richard A. Leiter, 2d ed. 2005)

Copyright Ownership & the Impact on Academic Libraries, 13 DePaul-LCA J. Arts & Ent. L. & Pol’y  277 (2003).

America's Cultural Record:  A Thing of the Past? 40 Hous. L. Rev. 643 (2003).

The New Right  of Access and Its Impact on Libraries and Library Users, 10 J. Intell. Prop. L. 269 (2003).

Libraries, Users, and the Problems of Authorship in the Digital Age, 52 DePaul L. Rev. 1193 (2003) .

Copyright Considerations for Electronic Reserves in MANAGING ELECTRONIC RESERVES 109 (Jeff Rosedale, ed. 2002).

Drafting a Copyright Ownership Policy, Technology Source, March-April (2002).

Distance Learning and Copyright:  An Update, 49 J. Copyright Soc'y 195 (2001).hg6

Anti-Circumvention:  A View from Librarians and Educators, 103 Proceedings of the ALAI Congress, June 13-17, 2001.

Balancing Copyright Concerns:  The Teach Act of 2001, 36 Educause Review, Policy@edu, Nov-Dec. 2001.

Copyright and Sound Recordings:  Overview and Update, 32 ARSC J. 217  (2001).

Impass:  Distance Learning and Copyright,  62 Ohio State L.J. 783 (2001).

Values Conflict in the Digital Environment:  Librarians Versus Copyright Holders, 24 Columbia  VLA J.L. & Arts 115  (2000).

Change--The Only Certainty in Copyright, 2000 BOWKER ANNUAL 194-207 (2000).

The Year in Copyright, 12 Against the Grain, Feb. 2000, at 1, 16-18.

Copyright Considerations for Fee-Based Document Delivery Services,  10 J. Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Info. Supply 75-92 (1999).

Guidelines for Distance Learning and Interlibrary Loan:  Doomed and More Doomed, 50 J. Am. Soc’y Info. Sci. 1337-41 (1999).

Distance Learning and Copyright: Is a Solution in Sight?, 22 CAUSE/EFFECT 6-8, 25 (1999)

Copyright, the Interent, and Other Legal Issues, 49 J. Amer. Soc'y Info. Science 1003-09 (1998).

Distance Learning and Copyright, 1 J.  of  Libr. Service for Distance Educ. at June, 1998.

Fair Use for Faculty-created Multimedia, 6 Info. Comm. Tech. L. 153-73 (1997).

Is Coursepack Copying Fair Use?, 7 Info. Outlook 36-39 (1997).

The White Paper, Fair Use, Libraries and Educational Institutions, 31 Serials Libr.  211-20 (1997).

Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials in the Practice of Law, N. C. State Bar J. 12-15 (1996).

Copyright and Interlibrary Loan: The Uneasy Case for the Digital Future, 22 Col. Libr. 14-17 (1996).

Libraries, Educational Institutions, and Copyright Proprietors: The First Collision on the Information Highway, 22 J. of Acad. Librarianship 337-44 (1996). 


Webpages

Copyright

Copyright Corner -- Lolly's monthly column from SLA's Information Outlook, 1998-2004
When works pass into the public domain

TEACH Act

Cyberspace seminar

Intellectual Property course

 

Honors and Awards

H.W. Wilson Award, Special Libraries Association, 1983 and 2004
Intellectual Property Scholar, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College, 2001-02
Visiting Professor of Law, DePaul College of Law, spring 2002
Marta Lange Award, Association of College & Research Libraries, 1998
Distinguished Alumnae, Texas Woman's University, 1988
Fellow, Special Libraries Association, 1988
John Cotton Dana Award, Special Libraries Association, 1987
President, American Association of Law Libraries 1986-87
 

Memberships

American Association of Law Libraries
American Bar Association, Council of the Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar
American Intellectual Property Association
Special Libraries Association
Carolina Intellectual Property Law Association (Faculty Advisor)
 

Other

   Section 108 Study Group, co-chair (for NCIIPP and the Copyright Office)  Website