Counsel, Collections and Services - Remote

at  Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit digital library seeking a mission-driven in-house counsel to join our legal team. This position is full time and fully remote (within the United States), reporting to the General Counsel. This role supports multiple teams across the organization, including Finance, Collections, Scanning & Digitization, Development, Patron Services, and our subscription web archiving program Archive-It, as well as the management team. This role will be expected to travel at least once a year for a legal team onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area. Given that the Internet Archive is a small organization with a global reach, a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to taking on projects large and small with a low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization will be important.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• A J.D. and license to practice law;
• Five or more years of experience either in a law firm, or in-house at a library, non-profit or technology company;
• The ideal candidate will have deep subject matter expertise in US and EU intermediary liability regimes;
• Excellent organizational and communication skills;
• Demonstrated ability to explain complex legal issues in everyday plain language for different types of audiences;
• Knowledge of digital libraries/archives, scholarly communications, data management, or open knowledge services, concepts, and practices preferred;
• Flexibility, self-reliance, a sense of humor, and a creative approach to problem-solving;
• Demonstrable history of providing practical guidance to solve complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with a variety of cross-functional teams and external partners;
• Experience working in a remote-first organization; and
• Candidates must be enthusiastic about, and motivated by, Internet Archive’s mission to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge

• Support engineering teams building new services and features;

• Maintain deep knowledge of worldwide content regulations, and laws relating to web scraping and user data requests;

• Counsel on issues that touch upon user uploaded content, such as trust and safety, mis- and disinformation, copyright, intermediary liability, privacy, cyber security and government requests for information;
• Interpret and operationalize worldwide regulations that affect the organization’s operations;
• Draft, review and negotiate contracts for all departments;
• Organize and maintain the organization’s contracts and other important legal documentation;
• Manage pro bono counsel; and
• Represent the organization at workshops, meetings, and in collaborations.