David B. Wolf is a litigator in the field of copyright
and related areas and is head of the firm’s litigation department.
He is a frequent speaker and panelist on copyright matters.
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Wrote the winning amicus brief
in the Random House v. Rosetta Books case on electronic
publishing in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
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Won a leading case on the use
of offers of judgment in copyright cases, Jordan v. Time
Inc.
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Wrote the winning amicus brief
for map publishers in the leading decision on the copyright
protection of maps, Mason v. Montgomery Data
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Successfully represented the
artist Al Hirschfeld in litigation against his gallery
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Past Chair, Committee on Copyright
and Literary Property, Association of the Bar of the City of
New York
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Adjunct Professor (Copyright
Litigation), Fordham University School of Law
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Former Associate General Counsel/Litigation
Counsel, Time Inc.
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Author, "Is There Any Copyright
Protection for Maps After Feist?", 39 Journal of the
Copyright Society 224 (1992), quoted in Mason v. Montgomery
Data, Inc., 967 F.2d 135 (5th Cir. 1992)
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Author, "‘Effective Protection Against Unfair Competition’
Under Section 44 of the Lanham Act," 82 Trademark
Reporter 33 (1992)
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Trustee, Copyright Society of
the U.S.A.
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B.A. (magna cum laude)
Yale University, member Phi Beta Kappa.
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M.Phil (Comparative Literature)
Yale University
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J.D. University of Pennsylvania
Law School, associate editor of Law Review
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LLM (Trade Regulation) New York
University School of Law
