Robert Roper Email & Phone Number

During the early years of my legal career, I was, among other things, an appellate judge’s law clerk, a clinical law professor and an Assistant US Attorney. I started in the media and entertainment industries in the early 1980’s, representing the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (“NCTA”) in connection with copyright and constitutional issues (e.g., Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp., 458 US 418 (1982); Cruz v. Ferre, 755 F2d. 1415 (11th Cir., 1985); NCTA v. Copyright Royalty Tribunal, 689 F2d. 1077 (DC Cir., 1982)). When I left NCTA almost 40 years ago to enter private pracice, I focused primarily, but not exclusively, on representing cable television production companies and networks in all facets of their business and legal affairs. In addition to networks and producers, my clients included artists, musicians, performers, a former Miss America, graphic designers, photographers, advertising agencies, publishers, Internet companies, software developers and website designers.I represented dozens of programming networks, ranging from start-ups to widely distributed, publicly traded companies and including foreign companies entering the U.S. market for the first time. I also provided business affairs and legal counsel to independent producers in connection with many successful television programs, including "Fat Guys in the Woods," "Willis Clan," "Whale Wars," “Trading Spaces,” “Roller Jam,” “World Series of Poker” and “Elvis Presley’s Graceland.”And, then, in 2019, I left private practice to join one of my clients, Philo, Inc. a streaming televison service, as its first Chief Legal Officer. What a blast!

Listed skills include Corporate Governance, Copyright Law, Corporate Law, Litigation, and 37 others.

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  Chief Legal Officer

  Philo

  Sep 2019 - Present - Denver, Colorado, United States

  Inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, Philo, Inc. was created to build a better TV experience. Philo is an internet streaming television service offering dozens of top-rated television channels for a low monthly subscription that subscribers can view on Android devices and Android TV, Fire Tablets and Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, iOS/iPad, Roku, and PC/Mac web browsers, with more options to come. Philo is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, MA