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About
Provided by Todd Larson
Practice Areas
Todd Larson is a partner in Weil’s IP/Media practice. He represents a wide variety of traditional and new media clients in copyright infringement litigation and product development counseling matters, as well as in rate-setting litigation and trials before the ASCAP and BMI rate courts and the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) over royalty rates for licenses for music publishing and sound recording performances. On behalf of Sirius XM and Pandora, he has served as a lead member of trial teams in several multi-week proceedings before the CRB to set sound recording performance royalty rates, as well as in appeals before the D.C. Circuit. In addition to his role in cutting-edge music licensing litigation, he also regularly counsels clients in a variety of intellectual property matters including the interplay between new product design, legal liability, safe-harbor protection, and music licensing requirements. Some of his notable clients in this space include the world’s largest social media platforms (Meta, Twitter, Pinterest), digital music services (Spotify, Pandora), broadcast and cable television networks (Paramount, NBC), background music services, and satellite and broadcast radio companies.
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Alleghany College (BA, 1991); University of Pennsylvania (M.S., 1998); Harvard Law School (JD, 2004).