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Jule L. Sigall

Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs
US Copyright Office
Washington D.C.

Jule L. Sigall is the Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, where 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 regularly 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. He has published several articles on copyright law and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on copyright and intellectual property, including WIPO Regional Symposia and lectures at Duke University School of Law and The Catholic University of America, where he is currently an adjunct professor. Before he was appointed Associate Register, Mr. Sigall practiced law in the Intellectual Property and Technology group of Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in copyright law and its application to new technologies. Mr. Sigall is a graduate of Duke University and a summa cum laude graduate of The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where he served as a Note and Comment Editor of the Catholic University Law Review.