Biography
K. Matthew Dames (G '01, '11) has been Syracuse University’s inaugural Copyright & Information Policy Adviser since 2008. Reporting to the University Librarian, Dr. Dames educates the University community about copyright, licensing and policy issues that affect teaching, scholarship, and research.
Dr. Dames has been involved in the media, information, and copyright industries as a creator, distributor, and performer for more than three decades. His prior professional positions include staff writer stints at two newspapers; producer and host for radio shows in New York, Boston and Syracuse; a residency at Georgetown University's law library; and DJ and percussionist in several groups and nightclubs in the Northeast. Dr. Dames continues to write on copyright and other IP issues as a magazine columnist and as editor of the online publications Copycense and Core Copyright.
Dr. Dames is a graduate of Syracuse University, Northeastern University School of Law, the City University of New York, and the Hackley School. In 2011, Dr. Dames became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. degree from Syracuse's School of Information Studies, where the faculty awarded him its doctoral prize.
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