Roy Kaufman is Legal Director of John Wiley and Sons, Inc., a global multinational publisher. He is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and of the Art Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  He currently belongs to the Freedom to Read and Lawyers Committees of the Association of American Publishers, and the Copyright Committee of International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. 

Mr. Kaufman has represented and counseled publishing companies in every segment of print, continuity, online and electronic publishing.  He is the author of Drafting Print and Online Publishing Agreements (Aspen Law & Business 2002), the only treatise in the United Sates dedicated to that topic.  He is also Editor-in-Chief of Art Law Handbook: From Antiquities to the Internet (Aspen Law & Business 2000).  He has published and lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, licensing, new media, artists’ rights, publishing and art law.  Prior to joining Wiley, Roy was an associate in the intellectual property and entertainment practice group of the New York office of the law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.  Roy is a graduate of Brandeis University (B.A., European Cultural Studies) and Columbia Law School (J.D.), where he served as Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts.