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Roy S. Kaufman

Managing Director of New Ventures

Roy Kaufman is Managing Director of New Ventures at the Copyright Clearance Center and is responsible for expanding service capabilities as CCC moves into new markets and services. Prior to his work at CCC, Kaufman served as Legal Director, Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and a member of the Copyright Committee of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers and the UK's Gold Open Access Infrastructure Program; his ORCID id is http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7192-6578. He formerly chaired the legal working group of CrossRef, which he helped to form, and worked on the launch of ORCID. He has lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, licensing, new media, artists' rights, and art law. Roy is Editor-in-Chief of "Art Law Handbook: From Antiquities to the Internet" and author of two books on publishing contract law. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia Law School.

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