About me
David Hansen is the Executive Director of Authors Alliance, a nonprofit that aims to support authors who want to see their works widely distributed for the benefit of the public. Authors Alliance has led efforts to secure copyright exemptions for text data mining researchers and has played an important role in advocating for legal access to research corpora for computational research. Dave has testified before Congress, the U.S. Copyright Office, and the USPTO on copyright, AI, open access, and fair use issues affecting academic authors and universities. He has also advocated for researchers' rights under copyright and the First Amendment in numerous federal cases. Before Authors Alliance, Dave was Lead for Copyright & Information Policy and an Associate University Librarian at Duke University. He holds a JD and MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill and previously held academic appointments at UC Berkeley School of Law and UNC Chapel Hill School of Law.
