Ben White is the Copyright Compliance and Publisher Licensing Manager at the British Library. He has a background in publishing having worked for Pearson Education internationally, as well as for Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of the United Kingdom. He is active in the Intellectual Property field within the UK sitting on a number of bodies including the BBC's Creative Archive Advisory Board, the UK Government's Creative Economy Programme (Competition and Intellectual Property) as well as the Institute of Public Policy Research's Advisory Board on Intellectual Property and the Public Sphere.