Speakers
Robert Kasunic
Principal Legal Advisor, Copyright Office, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
American University’s Washington College of Law
Rob Kasunic is a Principal Legal Advisor at the United States Copyright Office. At the Copyright Office, he has been involved with most domestic Internet, technology, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act issues before the Office, is the attorney charge of the triennial Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings and assisted with the Office’s Orphan Works Report just submitted to Congress and previously assisted with the Section 104 Report mandated by the DMCA. He has been involved with numerous litigation and appellate issues before the Office, including the Government’s activity in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox, Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink, Veeck v. SBCCI, and CSU v. Xerox. He has also been the lead attorney on all trademark, domain name, and antitrust issues that have arisen before the Office, including the Office’s recent adoption of a new seal and logo.
In addition to his role at the Copyright Office, Rob is an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law where he is in his fourth year teaching a seminar on Advanced Copyright Law and Policy. Before moving to the Washington College of Law, he taught a basic Copyright course at the University of Baltimore School of Law for eight years. Prior to coming to the Copyright Office in 2000, Rob ran an IP practice which included defense of a parody website from threats by Mattel for trademark dilution and major copyright infringement litigation against the Baltimore Ravens and National Football League Properties over the team’s infringing use of it’s primary logo. He is the author of several published articles on copyright law and manages his own website on copyright law and litigation. He is Co-Chair of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA and Chair of the Copyright Committee for the IPL Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.Register for the Summit
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Speakers and Topics That Matter
The Summit on Intellectual Property and Digital Media is proud to host speakers from all sides of the featured issues. Cable programmers, legal experts, systems operators, and academics come together to inform our discussions and generate new understanding.
Sessions at the Summit will include: Consumer Behavior in a Digital World, Current Legal and Regulatory Landscape, Technological Change and New Business Models, and Digital Rights Management.
