Upcoming Program

 

Second Quarterly Business Meeting
Thursday, December 11, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Madison or Milwaukee

 

Demystifying Copyright

Learn the ins and outs of copyright law and how it intersects with library services. Join our three experienced speakers to learn about this important subject, and ask your questions about copyright law. Our distinguished speakers include Nancy Sims, the Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications with the University of Minnesota Libraries; Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, an archivist, attorney, and educator; and Bruce Boyden, Associate Professor of Law with Marquette Law School.

 

The LLAW 2nd Quarterly Business Meeting will follow. Register now for the Second Quarterly Business Meeting

 

Pay online using the Paypal form below, or bring a check to the meeting made out to Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin.

 

Meeting locations

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. MILWAUKEE Office (1000 North Water Street, Suite 1700, Milwaukee WI)

 

Contact Carol Hassler, Program Committee Chair, with questions and we look forward to seeing you on December 11!

 

Our speakers

Nancy Sims
Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications, University of Minnesota Libraries

Nancy Sims is the University of Minnesota Libraries’ subject specialist on copyright issues. Nancy is both a librarian and a lawyer, and is fascinated by the pervasiveness of copyright issues in modern life. Nancy’s role at UMN is not to be the “copyright cop”, but to help individuals and groups understand how copyright affects their work. At UMN and beyond, Nancy advocates for policies and practices that support sustainable scholarship, democratic information access, and wide public cultural participation.

 

Menzi Behrnd-Klodt
Archivist, Attorney, and Educator

Menzi Behrnd-Klodt is an attorney, archivist, and archival educator. She recently was named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists. Based in Madison, WI, Menzi’s archives career has focused on corporate and organizational archives. She has trained many archivists and librarians, and consults to corporate clients. She was long-time Counsel at American Girl and now works for Mattel. She specializes in copyright, trademarks, contracts, licensing, and permissions. As an educator, Menzi teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies and University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool’s Continuing Education Program, and she has published several books and articles on legal issues for archivists and librarians. Currently she is a member of the Society of American Archivists’ Intellectual Property Working Group.

 

Bruce Boyden
Associate Professor of Law at Marquette Law School

Bruce Boyden is an Associate Professor at Marquette University Law School and the co-director of Marquette’s Intellectual Property Program. He teaches and writes in the areas of copyrights, intellectual property, privacy law, and civil procedure. His recent publications include an article on substantial similarity in the Washington Law Review, an article on IP protection for tabletop games in the Iowa Law Review Online, and a chapter on IP in The Cambridge Handbook of Generative AI and the Law. Before becoming a law professor, Bruce was in private practice for several years with the law firm Proskauer Rose, where he focused on digital copyright issues and Internet law.