Howard P. Knopf, B.A., M.S., LL.M, is a Canadian retired intellectual property lawyer. He was a senior copyright policy advisor in the Canadian government. His subsequent litigation advocacy in private practice included four influential appearances in the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as many appearances in the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, and the Copyright Board. He was on the faculty of the Fordham Law School Annual Intellectual Property Conference in New York for 17 years, along with many acclaimed academics, judges, and practitioners from the USA, UK, EU, and elsewhere. He has spoken dozens of times at academic and policy events including in Cambridge (UK), Chicago, Geneva, Mexico, Miami, Washington, and Canada. He has held positions at the John Marshall Law School (now UIC Law) in Chicago and the University of Ottawa and was an adjunct lecturer at Queen’s University. He was a pioneer in the judicial education movement in Canada. He is the author and/or editor or managing editor of dozens of scholarly articles and books, including a major book resulting from the Law Commission of Canadas pioneering work on security interests in intellectual property. He has appeared many times before House of Commons and Senate hearings in Canada and has maintained a widely read blog since 2006 entitled Excess Copyright.