Roy Kaufman

Roy Kaufman is Managing Director of both Business Development and Government Relations for Copyright Clearance Center. 

Prior to CCC, Roy served as Legal Director, Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.  He is a member of, among other things, the Bar of the State of New York, the Copyright and Legal Affairs Committee of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers, and the editorial board of UKSG Insights. 

Roy also advises the US Government on international trade matters involving intellectual property. He was the founding corporate Secretary of CrossRef, and formerly chaired its legal working group. 

He has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, licensing, open access, text/data mining, 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. rkaufman@copyright.com