Terry Hart

Terry Hart serves as General Counsel for the Association of American Publishers (AAP), where he promotes and protects the legal framework on which publishers of all sizes and sectors equally depend. He joined AAP from the U.S. Copyright Office, where he served as Assistant General Counsel.  He previously served as Vice President of Legal Policy at the Copyright Alliance for six years. Hart is also currently an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School and has previously taught at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. A 2010 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, he is the founder and author of the well-regarded Copyhype, which the American Bar Association recognized as one of the top 100 legal blogs in the United States.

Terry earned his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law with a certificate in Intellectual Property and is admitted to the Pennsylvania and DC Bars.