The intellectual property group at Loeb & Loeb LLP remains a force in the marketplace, leveraging the deep bench strength of locations in the US and Asia, to represent household names such as Netflix and Paramount Pictures in high-stakes copyright litigation. The practice is led in Los Angeles by fashion, luxury, and retail sector expert Melanie Howard (who brings experience to matters involving cryptocurrency, blockchain and NFTs) and in New York by Barry Slotnick, a music and entertainment specialist whose past clients have included the Beastie Boys, David Guetta, and the J.R.R. Tolkien estate. David Grossman in Los Angeles is a go-to for major clients in film and television and successful defended Netflix and the Duffer Brothers in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed over the series Stranger Things. Jonathan Zavin handles matters for major recording and publishing clients in New York. Tal Dickstein, also in New York, works alongside Slotnick on film industry matters. Wook Hwang left the team in April 2024.
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- 'Whether in LA or New York, the Loeb team has you covered for copyright and general media litigation.'
- 'Dave Grossman is one of the top copyright litigators in LA. Considering the firm's price point, I think he is #1 in the region in terms of value for money.'
Key clients
- Atticus LLC
- Netflix
- Matt and Ross Duffer
- Miramax, LLC
- Paramount Global,
- Cable News Network (CNN)
- BET
- Warner/Chappell Music Publishing
- SonyATV Music Publishing, Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC, Sony Music Entertainment
- PeerMusic
- Spirit Music Group
- Concord Music Publishing
- ABKCO Music
- David C. Cook dba Integrity Music
- Capitol CMG, Inc.
- Osinachi Kalu Okoro Egbu pka Sinach
- Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
- Atlantic Recording Corporation
- Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc.
- Warner Music Inc. and Warner Music Group Corp.
- Shalon Palmer, Worship Online
- Roderick Wayne, Jr. (professionally known as Roddy Ricch)
- Blue Nike Publishing LLC
- Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc
- Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corporation
- Volume Ventures Publishing, LLC
Work highlights
- Successfully represented Atticus LLC, the production company behind the Aaron Sorkin stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird, in a copyright case brought against the Dramatic Publishing Company to determine the effect of Harper Lee’s copyright termination of a prior exclusive license she granted to Dramatic in 1969.
- Defended Netflix, and Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of the Netflix hit television series “Stranger Things,” against a copyright infringement case in which screenwriter and producer Jeffrey Kennedy filed suit through his production company Irish Rover Entertainment asserting, among other claims, that "Stranger Things" included elements from the writer’s undeveloped screenplays and in particular that the “Shadow Monster” was based on a character Kennedy created.
- Secured a complete victory on behalf of client Miramax, LLC, and its related licensees in a suit brought by renowned photographer Firooz Zahedi, who claims to own the rights to an iconic photograph of Uma Thurman used in the poster for the movie “Pulp Fiction,” which Miramax produced.
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Barry Slotnick, David Grossman, Melanie Howard