Copyright Infringement Expert Witnesses
What is a copyright infringement expert witness?
Copyright infringement expert witness candidates typically have a background in intellectual property law, and/or economic damages. Copyright infringement expert witnesses often have advanced degrees in law, economics, and/or finance, and may have specialty experience in areas of medical devices, software development, or media.
What types of cases require a copyright infringement expert witness?
Copyright law, a type of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship. Examples of copyrighted work include, literature, musical compositions, art, motion pictures, and computer software.
Copyright infringement expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has placed experts for a wide variety of copyright infringement matters. Example cases have involved:
- reasonable royalty,
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA),
- fair use,
- publicity rights, and
- unfair competition.
What litigation support work might a copyright infringement expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a copyright expert witness could include research, authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and/or testimony in court. An economic damages expert is often called upon to provide intellectual property valuation. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require a testifying expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.
The firm is skilled and experienced at identifying expert candidates to provide support for all types of intellectual property matters and is frequently called upon by law firm clients to locate specialists for copyright infringement cases, on behalf of either a defendant or plaintiff.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a copyright infringement expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Copyright Infringement Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Copyright Infringement experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Copyright Infringement landscape.
Expert Witness #123933
This expert has deep experience in jewelry design, copyright, manufacturing, and analysis. With many years of design and manufacturing expertise, this expert maintains an active copyright consulting practice for numerous artists and designers, and holds a number of design copyrights, personally.
This expert's primary focus is on jewelry and although the bulk of this expert's business is centered around forensic appraisal this expert specializes on research to document design origins and influences, as well as the finite details of design, branding and marketing.
This expert is has been an expert witness in a copyright infringement matter, supporting the defendant and was also retained in a trade secrets and copyright infringement matter supporting the plaintiff. This expert has additional experience as an expert on a design and branded trademark infringement matter for the defense.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #227330
This expert is a musicologist and the president of a music consulting firm. This expert and her team of musicologists regularly advise clients on musical works for their commercials, films, and television series. This expert also frequently advises attorneys, advertising agencies, entertainment and recording companies, publishing firms, and musicians, addressing copyright issues, including those arising from digital sampling, electronic technology and Internet musical usage.
In addition to successful consultancy, this expert teaches forensic musicology, and has testified quite often in copyright infringement matters, as well as in valuation disputes, including collaborative and derivative musical works. This expert has written numerous articles and a book in the area of contemporary music and copyright infringement.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #123989
This expert has many years in the jewelry industry concentrating on trade dress, copyright infringement, and component design, appraisals and valuation issues. This expert is an experienced expert witness and has provided invaluable consultation on the current marketplace for intellectual property matters. This expert utilizes painstaking research utilizing historical sources that transcend jewelry, evaluating design in architecture, artwork, and other media to determine originality in IP matters. This expert presents at industry conferences and has been published in industry journals. A respected instructor, this expert teaches courses in jewelry design, wholesale and retail buying, and market trends. Additionally, this expert is a noted appraiser (with current accreditation) and has served as a consultant in numerous jewelry and gem cases for private and government parties. This expert has written expert reports, and given depositions in copyright, trademark and appraisal-based matters, but has yet to testify at trial.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #217141
This expert holds a PhD in Computer Science from an Ivy League School and is a nationally recognized computer scientist and attorney whose expert testimony was vital in two of the most important technology-based copyright/trademark infringement cases in U.S. history. This expert has served as an expert witness in multiple computer software and electronic voting cases. Total: 224 cases: 173 patent, 13 electronic voting, 11 trade secret, 10 copyright, 18 other. Affidavits, reports or declarations submitted in 151 cases. Deposed in 91 cases. Testified at trial or hearing in 42 cases. Participated in 3 reexams, 14 IPRs and 23 CBMs.
This expert was lead witness in the first Court test of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which established the legal principle that distributing or linking to software that circumvents the copyright protection on digital videodiscs is illegal and a pivotal expert witness in recent precedent-setting technology cases. This expert, who holds seven degrees from major universities in different fields and is a registered patent attorney, has been affiliated with the School of Computer Science at a research university. This expert is now Principal Systems Scientist and Director of a company where this expert started a project developing a lexicon of all words in all known languages, specifically for use in machine translation. This expert’s research interests include digital libraries, language identification, electronic voting, automated negotiation, experimental mathematics, and Internet law and policy.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #249847
Unlike academic experts, this expert has many years of branding industry expertise in developing brand names, brand imagery, brand messaging, package design, advertising and communications for the market-leading, global brands of more than 50 Fortune 500 consumer product and service companies. This gives this expert unique insight in establishing the likelihood of consumer confusion between brands and how that influences purchase behavior.
Expertise: Experienced in Lanham Act and TTAB infringement issues including infringement of
• Trademark and Copyright
• Package Design
• Product Design
• Brand Identity/Logo
• Web Site
• Branding Industry Best Practices
Services include:
• Survey Development/Analysis
• Likelihood of Confusion Determination
• Brand Dilution Confirmation
• Damages Assessment
• Corrective Advertising Calculation
Unique Credentials:
• Works with top consumer product /service companies on branding strategy and communications
• Created/analyzed +1,000 consumer survey/research projects
• The industry thought leader on quantifying brand value
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #256912
As a technology expert with many years of litigation experience in over 50 cases, including 17
patent infringement cases and 25 IPR/CBM/GPR cases, this expert has authored reports and declarations, generated over 100 claim charts, inspected tens of millions of lines of source code, and examined numerous systems. This expert has a Master of Science in Computer Science as well as many years of experience in engineering, development, consulting, and management in data networking, monitoring, Web/Internet, software, and systems. This expert’s professional background includes cofounder of an Internet company providing human communication online rating and evaluation tools and services; cofounder and president of a provider of automated Web-based telecommunication test services; cofounder and CEO of an Internet eCommerce and portal company; general manager of data storage business unit and general manager of data networking business unit at a supplier of data storage and data networking systems; founder and president of a supplier of data storage manufacturing systems; and many years as telecommunication engineer and software developer.
This expert has extensive experience with networking and test and monitoring systems. As general manager of a data networking business unit, this expert was responsible for a data networking analysis tools business unit that designed and built network protocol analysis and monitoring products sold, under OEM agreement, by the largest network protocol analysis and monitoring products supplier. These products, among other capabilities, could trap and record IP addresses and data packets matching criteria in the various layers of the TCP/IP stack.
This expert designed data storage test systems and was involved with data storage protocol analyzers and monitoring products, including the best-selling data storage protocol analysis and monitoring products. For several years, as an engineer, this expert designed and implemented computer networks, data communication systems, test systems, and monitoring systems. This expert also has many years of experience in and deep understanding of Web/Internet technologies.
This expert has litigation experience with several cases and IPRs involving data networking cases and monitoring. This expert worked for a year on a trade secret and copyright case dealing with data networking load balancers.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #237557
Unlike academic experts, this expert has many years of branding industry expertise in developing brand names, brand imagery, brand messaging, package design, advertising and communications for the market-leading, global brands of more than 50 Fortune 500 consumer product and service companies. This gives this expert unique insight in establishing the likelihood of consumer confusion between brands and how that influences purchase behavior.
Expertise: Experienced in Lanham Act and TTAB infringement issues including infringement of
- Trademark and Copyright- Package Design- Product Design- Brand Identity/Logo- Web Site- Branding Industry Best PracticesServices include:
- Survey Development/Analysis- Likelihood of Confusion Determination- Brand Dilution Confirmation- Damages Assessment- Corrective Advertising CalculationUnique Credentials:
- Works with +100 top consumer product /service companies on branding strategy and communications- Created/analyzed +1,000 consumer survey/research projects- Managing Partner of a brand identity strategy and communications firm- The industry thought leader on quantifying brand value- Serves attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #266104
This expert is a Member of a consulting firm offering financial and business expertise. The expert’s particular focus is in licensing and royalty rates, as well as damages calculations and related litigation support. This expert has served as an expert witness in three apparel matters (for three different clients) including copyright infringement (damages) of dress designs, value of dress designs and products in business interruption matter, and analysis of business and determination of reasonable royalty for dress designs and products involved in business acquisition. This expert was a patent examiner at the USPTO and served at the US Treasury and responsibilities including technology licensing, business valuation and transfer pricing, and corporate fraud. This expert’s testimony experience includes evaluating reasonable royalty rates including developing RAND royalty rates considering such issues as scope of the royalty base, lump sum and running royalties, royalty stacking, license comparability, university licensing agreements, exclusive licensing, and apportionment of profits to non-infringing components.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #266222
This expert is a Senior Director at a large intellectual property equity firm. This expert’s specific advantage comes from having earned both an MBA in finance as well as a JD, cum laude. This expert has deep experience in valuing intellectual property, and in calculating damages from claims of infringement, breach of contract and is well versed in the proper methods of calculation, royalty rates, and in all aspects of damages assessment. This expert has particular experience in clothing and apparel industry matters and has been engaged for patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and other intellectual property matters and has served as an expert witness.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #247885
This entertainment industry and copyright expert has over 20 years of hands-on experience in film development, production, finance, and distribution, including producing and directing over 5 feature films, live-streaming television, dozens of commercials, corporate videos, and events, with experience in both studio and independent film and television environments.
This expert has provided expert testimony, reporting, and consultation in matters involving copyright infringement, breach of contract, and reputational harm. This expert has prepared expert reports and provided deposition and trial testimony in matters before state and federal courts and in arbitration.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #253706
This music copyright damages expert has extensive experience as a financial damages expert witness in music copyright matters. This expert has worked in the music industry for over 35 years, including experience as a financial statement auditor for a large music label, later leading internal audit for a major music company, and serving as a royalty auditor for another major music company.
This expert has been retained as a financial damages expert witness for musicians and music owners, and has also been retained as an expert witness in numerous copyright infringement litigation matters.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #265411
This trademark damages expert is a founding principal at an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in IP valuation, IP strategy, and expert testimony related to IP damages and licensing customs and practices, with over 20 years of experience in the field.
This expert calculates damages for copyright, trademark, and publicity rights infringement. Experience includes social media and Internet disputes, defamation, marketing strategy analysis, and royalty rate determinations. This expert has served as a named expert in over 100 cases, been deposed over 30 times, and provided trial testimony over 10 times.
This expert is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and has served on committees for prominent trademark, domain-name, copyright, and social-media legal and professional associations.
Trademarks and brands are often key assets in mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, and licensing transactions. This expert understands that trademark valuation can be a significant factor in determining reasonable royalty rates for licensing agreements. Trademark valuation can also provide the value of a trademark at different dates, which can be a critical component for trademark damages in cases involving infringement, disparagement, and defamation.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #274655
This copyright and trademark damages expert has over 25 years of experience across a broad range of litigation matters, with a special emphasis on calculating trademark and trade dress infringement damages, patent infringement damages, misappropriation of trade secrets damages, and copyright infringement damages.
This expert is a prolific author and frequently invited presenter on topics related to trade dress, trade secrets, trademarks, and IP valuation.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #287184
This trademark and copyright damages expert has been involved in numerous trademark and copyright matters for both plaintiffs and defendants across many industries, including entertainment.
This expert has experience in matters involving trademark disputes tied to television programming, as well as copyright and breach-of-contract disputes involving television series.
This expert has substantial experience in copyright infringement and teaches a class at a law school on damages in copyright infringement matters.
This expert has testified in a variety of litigation matters involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #291102
This music copyright damages expert has over 25 years of experience providing forensic accounting and financial and economic analysis to attorneys. This expert is an active member of a prominent copyright-focused professional society and has previously served on its executive board. Through that involvement, this expert has become well versed in the complex ecosystem of music royalties, including mechanical, performance, and sync royalties, as well as the various divisions among songwriters, performers, publishers, and distributors.
This expert has served as an expert in copyright infringement disputes involving music and other creative works. The analysis has included calculating disgorgement of profits across multiple royalty streams in the music industry. This expert has also performed early case assessments involving alleged infringement of literary and musical works, including matters involving adaptation of written works into songs and disputes concerning sheet music and instrumental-only performers. This expert has also consulted with stakeholders concerning the setting of royalty-related rates by copyright tariff authorities for neighboring rights and private copying.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #295951
This literary comparison and copyright expert is a leading authority on the business of publishing, testifying on legal aspects of the industry and providing expert witness services and publishing consulting across a wide range of areas. With over 30 years in the publishing industry, this expert has experience as a published author, bookstore owner, and developer of sales, marketing, and publicity strategies for numerous authors and publishers. This expert has also held roles in publishing and book distribution companies, gives public and private presentations, and chairs panels at industry conferences and meetings.
This expert has read and evaluated numerous manuscripts, conducted comparisons with existing published works, written synopses and proposals, and critiqued and outlined further literary development as a literary copyright consultant, expert witness in copyright infringement cases, and literary agent.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #296818
This trademark and copyright damages expert has over 30 years of experience in financial and litigation consulting, with expertise in intellectual property damages. This expert has provided financial analysis and valuation assessments involving patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright issues, and has testified numerous times in patent infringement disputes, trademark disputes, copyright disputes, and false advertising disputes in both state and federal courts.
Start Copyright Infringement Expert SearchExpert Witness #2729727
This trademark and copyright damages expert holds a Ph.D. and is a well-regarded economist and financial consultant who provides analysis in simple terms that any trier of fact can understand.
This expert is well-published, frequently presents at academic and industry conferences, and is recognized for credibility as an expert witness. This expert has been featured in prominent legal and financial publications, has substantial testimonial support, and has testified in dozens of copyright and trademark infringement cases.
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