About the Author

Arnold P. Lutzker practices copyright, trademark, Internet, entertainment, and art law. He counsels on issues of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property and assists clients in matters of selection and registration, licensing, infringement and effective management, and exploitation of copyright and trademark portfolios. He has special expertise in the copyright and trademark issues that surround the print and electronic media, television and film production, the Internet, multimedia, information infrastructure, and intellectual property policy.

In 30 years of private practice, Mr. Lutzker has advised many media companies, including Cox Enterprises, Multimedia Entertainment, Newhouse Broadcasting, USA Networks, Home Shopping Network, and Gannett Co., Inc. Since 1994, he has represented a consortium of five national library associations regarding copyright and Internet issues. He has also counseled numerous colleges and universities, including Ohio State, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, about intellectual property law and assisted institutions in establishing licensing programs. He has served as outside counsel to UDV (Diageo), handling trademark matters for the company's famous brands that include J&B, Ouzo #12, and Malibu.

A successful advocate, Mr. Lutzker has won U.S. Court of Appeals cases involving the cable copyright compulsory license, video monitoring, and trade dress. For the library associations, he filed amici briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in The New York Times v. Tasini and National Geographic Society v. Greenberg (workfor-hire cases) and Eldred v. Ashcroft (the legal challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act). He has also handled multimillion dollar copyright royalty claims for the producers of Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael television shows and routinely counsels clients on music rights and clearances.

In the legislative and policy area, he advised the Directors Guild of America in connection with its effort to protect classic American movies and to secure residuals for directors. He has prepared prominent witnesses (notably Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Woody Allen, Jimmy Stewart, Milos Forman, and Martin Scorcese) for hearings before House and Senate committees. In the Digital Millennium Copyright Act debate, he represented library and educational interests. He was chief negotiator for these associations on bills dealing with Online Service Provider limitation on liability, Copyright Term Extension, Fair Use, Distance Education and Database. Among legislation he has worked on are the following: The Satellite Home Viewers Act (1987), The Berne Treaty Implementation Amendments (1988), The National Film Preservation Act (19881, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998), The Copyright Term Extension Act (1998), and The TEACH Act (2002).

In the arts, since 1988 he has served as General Counsel of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, a nonprofit service organization comprised of more than 300 arts organizations and civic institutions. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington, DC, International Film Festival and was special legal advisor to the American Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation and its touring art exhibition, Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian lmperial Court. Mr. Lutzker is cofounder of Palace Arts Foundation and organized its critically acclaimed touring exhibition, Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul..

He also is cofounder of three commercial ventures, Interstar Releasing (a theatrical motion picture production and distribution company that was sold to Westinghouse's Group W Division), Cineports International (a broadband startup that will provide on a streaming, subscription basis movies from more than a dozen countries), and Entera Entertainment (an entertainment company specializing in Spanish- and Hispanic-themed music, television programs, and film).

He is the author of two other books, Copyrights and Trademarks for Media Professionals, (Focal Press, 1997) and Legal Problems in Broadcasting (Great Plains University Press, 1974); a video, Copyrights: The Internet, Multimedia, and the Law (Taylor Communications, 1997); The Primer on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; and numerous articles on copyright and trademark issues. Prior to establishing Lutzker & Lutzker LLP, he was a partner in the Washington firms of Fish & Richardson, P.C. and Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, and was legislative counsel to Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham. He graduated City College of New York (1968, magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (1971, cum laude).