Miriam Lord

Miriam Lord is the Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education for the U.S. Copyright Office. She is an expert copyright attorney and an advisor to the Register of Copyrights. Before joining the Office, Lord was the director of the Global Intellectual Property Academy within the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the USPTO. She has also served as co-lead of the U.S. Department of Commerce Equity Council’s Gender Committee. Previously, she was the director of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a pro bono program providing under-resourced artists, startups, and creative nonprofits with legal aid. Lord holds a JD from Villanova University School of Law and an undergraduate degree in design from Colorado State University.