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Robert W. Clarida is a partner at the New York firm of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. His copyright practice includes both counseling and litigation for clients in a wide variety of industries, such as publishing, music, fine arts, photography, jewelry design, film, software and new media. Bob has spoken and written frequently on copyright issues, and is co-author, with Tom Kjellberg, of the annual review of copyright decisions published each year by the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA.
Before joining Cowan, Liebowitz, Mr. Clarida taught music history and music theory at Dartmouth College, and wrote music for several dance companies in New York. He earned his J.D. in 1993 from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, after earning a Ph.D. in music composition from SUNY Stony Brook in 1987, and receiving a Fulbright fellowship to the Musicology Institute of Gothenburg University, Sweden. He also earned his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in music composition. He is admitted to the New York bar, and to the federal bars of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. |