Biography
David is a media and entertainment litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Fox Rothschild LLP. David has more than 30 years of experience handling a variety of complex matters, including copyright, trademark, right of publicity, defamation, breach of contract, and accounting claims.
David regularly represents and advises a variety of business entities, including motion picture and television studios, production companies, broadcasters, Internet websites and podcasters, video game companies, music companies and advertising agencies in their business and marketing decisions and disputes involving:
· Copyrights
· Trademarks
· Right of publicity
· Defamation
· Unfair competition
· Trade secrets
· False advertising
· Contracts/accounting/finance
David has defended numerous copyright infringement and idea submission claims concerning popular entertainment works and hit movies such as “Ad Astra,” “Walk of Shame,” “The Last Samurai,” “Antz,” “Along Came Polly,” “Reality Bites,” “There’s Something About Mary” and “The Mask of Zorro.” Among his recent cases, David conducted a two-week bench trial concerning the financing and distribution of the videogame “Def Jam Rapstar,” defended the in-development spy-thriller project “Section 6” against claims that it infringed the copyrights in the character James Bond, and?represented keyboardist-songwriter Jonathan Cain of the rock group “Journey” in trademark litigation between the band’s members concerning the ownership and control of the “Journey” band name and trademarks.