Kendra Albert is an American public-interest technology and media lawyer and a co-founder of Albert Sellars LLP. Albert previously practiced and taught technology law at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic. Albert founded the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment in 2019 and directed it until summer 2024. Their scholarship examines digital technology, gender and sexuality.
DI has documented statements by Kendra Albert on Education, Scientific Research, and Video Games. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Technology lawyer, speaking personally
Condemned
Statement summary
Albert argues that the Copyright Office did not seriously engage with evidence against market harm.
“I do believe we made the best case we could that scholarly access to video games *that are not commercially available* does not harm the market. I do not believe that this evidence was seriously engaged with by the Copyright Office.”
Relative to the decision to refuse remote research access, Albert argues that the Copyright Office did not seriously engage with evidence that scholarly access would not harm the market.
Preservation advocates sought screened remote access to out-of-print games for research. ESA opposed the expansion. The Copyright Office rejected it in 2024, finding the proposed safeguards insufficient to establish likely noninfringing use.
