Edward Klaris

Practice Areas

-Advertising & Marketing

- Content Clearance

- Copyright & Fair Use

-Corporate Transactions & Governance

-Film & TV

-First Amendment & Newsgathering

-Interactive Entertainment & Sports Media

- Litigation

- News Media & Publishing

- Podcasts & Audio

- Social Media

- Technology Data

-Theater & Live Events

- Trademark

- WEB3, A.I., Blockchain

Career

CEO - Klaris IP - Nov 2014 - Present

Managing Partner - Klaris Law - Jan 2015 - Present

Adjunct Professor of Law - Columbia Law School - Jan 2005 - Present

Chairman of the Board - Pilobolus Dance Theater - Jan 2002 - Jan 2016

Senior Vice President - Conde Nast - May 2006 - Nov 2014

General Counsel - The New Yorker - May 2000 - Nov 2006

Media Counsel - ABC News - Nov 1997 - May 2000

Associate - Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sep 1992 - Nov 1997

Publications

"As AI Marches on Music Industry, Record Labels Counter With $350M Lawsuits in Assertive Move" - Hollywood Reporter

"Inside Big Tech's Underground Race to Buy AI Training Data" - Reuters

"When an Artist Dies, Who Owns Her Story?" - New York Times

"Why Bill Ackman's Case Against Business Inside Is a Fantasy" - New York Magazine

"Artificial Intelligence Faces More Legal Challenges" - NPR

"OpenAI Faces Existential Threat in New York Times Copyright Suit" - Bloomberg Law

"Franzen, Grishan and Other Prominent Authors Sue Open AI" - New York Times

"Authors Sue Meta, Open AI in Lawsuits Alleging Infringement of Hundreds of Thousands of Novels" - Hollywood Reporter

"Startup Debuts New AI Models Trained on Getty Images and other Content as Copyright Concerns Loom" - Digiday

"Potential Supreme Court Clash Looms over Copyright Issues in Generative AI Training Data" - VentureBeat

"Viral AI Powered Drake/Weeknd Song Removed from Streaming Services" - NBC News

"Is AI Music Even Legal?" - NBC News

"Ed Klaris Recognized by Best Lawyers 2021 for Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television" - XR Today

Education

Awards

Experience

Edward Klaris is the managing partner at Klaris Law and CEO of KlarisIP. He founded the firms in 2015 after having been a litigator at Davis Wright Tremaine, as well as a 17-year stint in-house at ABC/Disney, The New Yorker, and Conde Nast. Since 2005, Ed has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, teaching media law and intellectual property.

Since starting Klaris, Ed and the firm have been awarded for their outstanding work many times by such prestigious organizations as Chambers, US News & World Report and the NY Law Journal. The Financial Times and Inc. 5000 both awarded the firm one of the fastest growing businesses in North America. The firm prides itself on being highly responsive to clients and providing first class legal services at reasonable rates fit to client needs. Ed has thrived at building a strong practice and cares deeply about surrounding himself with smart, open-minded colleagues, who share his passion for the work.

Over the course of Ed’s career, he has represented clients in a range of business sectors, serving as an advisor and advocate for companies of all sizes. His media and entertainment practice covers publishing, podcasting, movie and TV production, documentaries, pre-publication review, licensing, content distribution, technology, virtual reality, machine learning, online subscriptions and e-commerce businesses, as well as many clients in the arts. Ed’s trademark practice includes studios, major hospitality businesses, producers of luxury goods, lifestyle and gaming companies. The firm has connections with a large network of intellectual property firms around the world.

Ed has published many articles and contributed to several books, including three chapters in the American Bar Association’s “Intellectual Property and Technology Due Diligence” published in 2018. He speaks at conferences around the world and is an active member of the Media Law Resource Center and the Association of the Bar of the City of NY. He raised his two children in NYC and now also spends part of the year working from Los Angeles. Ed graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal at Cardozo Law School. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, and the federal and state courts in New York.