Director of Public Policy Initiatives
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Brandon Butler is the director of public policy initiatives at the ARL. He's been at ARL since September 2009, and in that time has worked on a host of issues ranging from fair use to network neutrality to the PATRIOT Act. In the copyright area, Brandon has prepared analysis and commentary on the Google Books Settlement, the Georgia State University e-reserves case, the HathiTrust, orphan works, and a wide range of litigation and legislation.

He is a co-facilitator, with Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide, of the ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Aademic and Research Libraries, released in January 2012. Brandon also writes the ARL Policy Notes blog, http://policynotes.arl.org and tweets from the @ARLpolicy Twitter account. 

Before coming to ARL, Brandon was an associate in the Media and Information Technologies practice group at the Washington, DC, law firm Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he worked on copyright issues, trademark prosecution, and corporate transactions involving intellectual property. Brandon graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law where he was an editor at the Journal of Law and Politics, obtained an MA in philosophy from the University of Texas, and did his undergraduate degree at the University of Georgia.