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CurrentLitigated or counseled concerning copyrights and related rights in the music of Elvis Presley, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Steve Perry Jackson Browne, and John Lee Hooker; in the literary works of authors John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Raymond Chandler, William Saroyan, Louis L’Amour, Helen Fielding, and Philip K. Dick; in the fictional characters Betty Boop, Barney, Rocky, Zorro, Dennis the Menace, and Emily the Strange; and in the photography of Richard Avedon and Jim Marshall.Litigated or counseled regarding the rights of publicity and/or trademark rights of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Barbara Streisand, Diana, Princess of Wales, Robin Williams, Tiger Woods, Jim Brown, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sylvester Stallone, Groucho Marx, Doris Day and others.Counseled regarding IP issues involving chain of title, clearance and streaming issues for literary works, motion pictures, television, and other online content, as well as use of third party social media in online advertising.Arbitrated international intellectual property disputes in Sweden and the People’s Republic of China.Co-authored the 1999 amendments to and negotiated the 2007 language changes in California’s posthumous Right of Publicity statute, Civil Code §3344.1, and participated in drafting California’s anti-cybersquatting statute, Bus. & Prof. Code §17525, and the right of publicity statutes of Ohio and Pennsylvania.Obtained dozens of seizure orders, preliminary injunctions and/or asset freezes against computer software or luxury goods pirates, Internet service providers, computer bulletin board operators, cellular phone or trunking radio cloners, and others.Authored or co-authored two books on intellectual property and entertainment law.Successfully tried to juries five copyright, trademark, and unfair competition actions.Argued more than 18 appeals, with over 24 reported decisions.
