When Robert Vanni took the general counsel’s job at the New York Public Library 20 years ago, the world was still discovering the wonders of the fax machine. The Internet and such innovations as e-mail and search engines were just a far-off fantasy.
As for pressing intellectual property-related issues, it’s fair to say that Vanni didn’t have many. “His biggest copyright problem was what kind of warning sign to put next to the copy machine,” jokes Hank Guttman, head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s intellectual property group and one of the library’s regular outside counsel.
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