Copyright Expert Witnesses

Our copyright expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants include scholars from major universities, lawyers, scientists, engineers, computer experts, and other industry professionals with extensive knowledge in copyright matters worldwide. They have had years of practical experience in the litigation of intellectual property cases, including trials and appeals, before United States courts, the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) arbitration tribunals and been retained by the Federal Judicial Center (the federal agency charged with continuing education for federal judges) to deliver seminars in patent, trademark, and copyright law to local federal districts. A few of the areas that these experts specialize in include:

• Copyright law
• Copyright infringement
• Copyright damage analysis
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Intellectual property
• Licensing
• Internet law
• Computer law
• Web publishing
• E-commerce
• Patents
• Trademarks
• Unfair competition
• Trade secrets
• Antitrust
• Competition law
• International law
• Sports and Internet/new media law
• Art law, legal strategy
• Information protection
• Valuation and licensing of copyrights and patents
• Contracts
• Entertainment
• Licensed merchandise
• Publishing
• Trading cards
• CD-ROM/interactive games
• Napster
• Plagiarism in music
• Pharmacology
• Telecommunications

Our copyright expertsare prolific authors of books and scholarly articles on copyrights and related topics. They have worked for diverse organizations, including the U.S. Department of Justice; Broadcast Music, Inc.; Bell Laboratories; NBA Properties, Inc.; and various divisions of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), including the worldwide anti-piracy division, which guards the copyright and trademark interests of the major motion picture and television studios (Disney, Paramount, Columbia, Orion, Fox, MGM, Universal and Warner Bros.).