Sara R. Benson

Sara R. Benson is the copyright librarian and an associate professor at the University of Illinois Library and an affiliate professor of the School of Information Science, European Union Center, and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois. She also serves as the head of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and is the author of the first edition of Compact Copyright, which was published in 2021. She has experience working in an international environment due to her previous role as chair of the IFLA Copyright and Other Legal Matters Advisory Committee, and she has also served as a senior policy fellow for the American Library Association. She currently serves as the head of the IFLA Delegation to WIPO, for which she travels to Geneva, Switzerland, for biannual meetings of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, and she serves as a member of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee for the Library of Congress.