Right to Write Board of Directors

RIGHT TO WRITE FUND
A Program of the Center for Ethics in Action

2008 Mission Statement

The Right to Write Fund is formed to be an educational repository and
clearinghouse for the 21st century freedom of expression and “fair use”
issues writers and publishers encounter when moving between the worlds
of print, internet, film, the fine arts and new media. The Fund will collect
and disseminate legal briefs, facts and analyses as well as literary and
media accounts of copyright, trademark and other intellectual property
statutes in order to define first amendment rights in a technological age.
The Fund will promulgate and protect the democratic values of our
founding fathers – free speech, the freedom to write, fairness, openness
and honesty – while establishing the ground rules for future artistic
expression.

Goals
1. To raise money for a Right to Write Defense Fund to cover legal
expenses in the J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. injunction and other
possible legal actions against RDR Books.
2. To use additional funds raised to create a Right to Write
clearinghouse and provide future resources for the Mission stated above.

Board of Advisors

Secretary: Martha Ferriby, Director of the Hackley Public Library in
Muskegon, Michigan, has served as President of the governing board of
the Lakeland Library Cooperative, and is President of the Board of
Directors of Jefferson Towers, low income housing for seniors.

Lizbeth Hasse, a graduate of the University of California’s Boalt Hall
School of Law and a Fulbright Scholar, represents publishers, authors,
print, film, and web journalists, musicians, directors and broadcasters at
Creative Industry Law Group in San Francisco. Hasse has advised on
legislative developments in intellectual property, media law and
constitutional areas in a number of European, Asian and African
“countries in transition.”

Arend D. Lubbers, President of Grand Valley State University from 1969
to 2001 is a historian and author of Old Hopes for a New Place.

President: Roger D. Rapoport, is Publisher of RDR Books as well as the
author and editor of 17 books including the biography Citizen Moore.

Dan Royer is chairman of the Department of Writing at Grand Valley
State University.

Meredith Spear has consulted to health care enterprises nationwide while
retaining a commitment to investigative reporting and journalistic
excellence. She currently serves on the Boards of Mother Jones magazine
and Social Venture Partners of Tucson which supports local literacy
organizations. She also is a founding donor to Right to Write.

Treasurer: Anne B. Zill, President of the tax exempt, publicly supported
Center for Ethics in Action, is also President, Fund for Constitutional
Government, and Director of the University of New England Gallery of
Art.