David O. Carson is Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. The Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress, administers the U.S. copyright law. As Associate Register, he is the head of the Office of Policy and International Affairs, which assists the Register of Copyrights in advising Congress and executive branch agencies on domestic and international copyright policy matters. He represents the Copyright Office in U.S. government delegations to meetings at the World Intellectual Property Organization, including its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. From 1997 through the end of 2006, he was the Copyright Office General Counsel, where he had responsibility for the Office’s regulatory activities (including administration of the copyright statutory licenses), litigation, and providing liaison on legal and policy matters between the Office and Congress, the Department of Justice and other agencies of Government, the courts, the legal community, and other interests affected by the copyright law. Prior to joining the Copyright Office in 1997, he was in private practice, representing publishers, authors, motion picture and television production companies, recording artists, composers, record companies, computer software publishers and others in areas including copyrights, trademarks, defamation, rights of privacy and publicity, and publishing and entertainment contracts. He has written articles and lectured on issues in these fields of law. He is a former trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, a former director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and former chair of its Committee on Copyright Law. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in history at Stanford University.