Benjamin E Marks
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Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets + 1 more ranking
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About
Provided by Benjamin E Marks
Practice Areas
Benjamin Marks is Head of Weil’s Intellectual Property/Media practice. He has served as lead counsel in copyright, music licensing, misappropriation, trademark, unfair competition, First Amendment, and media law cases for clients such as Pandora Media, Sirius XM Radio, Getty Images, S&P Global, the North American Concert Promoters Association, West Publishing, and Morgan Stanley, among others. For many years, Ben also has represented the Association of American Publishers in a wide variety of intellectual property matters. He has litigated several leading cases involving “hot news” and other common law misappropriation claims. Ben also frequently represents streaming services, television broadcasters, concert promoters, and other music consumers in connection with the acquisition of, and litigation over, rights to publicly perform musical compositions and sound recordings and secondary liability claims for performances by others.
Career
Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School, and serves on the Advisory Board of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy.
Personal
University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1993, magna cum laude); New York University School of Law (JD, 1997).
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Benjamin Marks maintains a respected trademark and copyright practice and frequently acts on matters including infringement and royalty disputes.
Benjamin Marks has notable experience representing well-known media and entertainment companies in intellectual property disputes. He is especially active in litigation involving music licensing and copyright royalties.
Strengths
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"Ben is incredibly efficient and provides the highest level of advice, counsel and risk assessment."
"Benjamin is a brilliant IP litigator. He is very smart and is able to take complex elements of the case and make them incredibly easy for people with no IP experience to understand."
"He is a professional to the utmost point, and an expert in licensing. It is impossible to think there is anyone who would not be convinced by his arguments."
"He is a brilliant IP litigator and incredibly practical. In addition to bringing really strong legal solutions, he finds practical solutions to problems."
"Ben is incredibly efficient and provides the highest level of advice, counsel and risk assessment."
"Benjamin is a brilliant IP litigator. He is very smart and is able to take complex elements of the case and make them incredibly easy for people with no IP experience to understand."
"He is a professional to the utmost point, and an expert in licensing. It is impossible to think there is anyone who would not be convinced by his arguments."
"He is a brilliant IP litigator and incredibly practical. In addition to bringing really strong legal solutions, he finds practical solutions to problems."
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