Bobby Rosenbloum Esq.
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

CONCENTRATION

Transactional entertainment-related matters in the music and film industries
Entertainment-oriented new media issues, including negotiation of all varieties of content arrangements, licensing agreements and strategic counseling
Representation of recording artists, producers, record labels, and other entities in connection with typical music industry transactions and agreements
Trademark and unfair competition counseling, prosecution and litigation strategy
Copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
Internet web site and software development agreements
Counseling regarding overall new media strategies

SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATIONS

• Represent the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in connection with entertainment, transactional and intellectual property matters.
• Serve as primary external transactional counsel for various companies in the entertainment industries, including major and independent record companies and publishing companies.
• Represent multiple leading companies in connection with new media music licensing and content acquisition strategies.
• Primary intellectual property counsel to dozens of recording artists, record companies and film companies in connection with general intellectual property matters, including trademark counseling and prosecution, copyright protection and due diligence matters.
• Prepare and negotiate recording artist agreements, producer agreements, and other music industry agreements on behalf of internationally recognized artists and record labels.
• Serve as primary external counsel for independent film production company in connection with the production of an independent theatrical motion picture.
• Negotiated trademark license agreement on behalf of The Home Depot in connection with the development of a nationally syndicated children's television production.
• Prepare and negotiate a wide variety of intellectual property licensing and merchandising agreements in the entertainment, software and technology fields.
• Represented the Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in nationally-followed copyright litigation against major broadcasting company regarding infringement of Dr. King's copyright in the historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Chairman, Southeastern Chapter of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
• Governing Committee Member, ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries
• Member, Georgia State Bar Entertainment and Sports Law Section
• Associate Member, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
• Deputy General Counsel, The Recording Academy

ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES

Articles

• Author, Author, "Sorting Through the Confusion Revisited: A Further Look at Recording Agreements in the Digital Era,"

Lectures

• Speaker, "Sorting Through the Confusion Revisited: A Further Look at Recording Agreements in the Digital Era," State Bar of Texas, 16th Annual Entertainment Law Institute, October 20-21, 2006

  Moderator, "Clearing Rights to Music In the Digital World," American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, October 13-14, 2006
• Speaker, Panel Discussion "Alternative Digital Deals: Ringtones, Games, DVDs and Other Uses," SXSW Music Conference, March 18, 2005
• Speaker, Panel Discussion "Alternate Distribution Models/Alternate Revenue Streams," ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries, October 8, 2004
• Speaker, Panel Discussion "Digital Rights Management: Legal, Legislative and Social Issues Surrounding DRM Implementation," Digital Hollywood Conference, September 28, 2004
• Speaker, Panel Discussion "Untangling the Web of Digital Music Rights," American Conference Institute, Digital Entertainment Distribution Conference, June 22, 2004
• Speaker, Panel Discussion Regarding Cutting Edge Intellectual Property Issues Facing the Music and Entertainment Industries, Southern Regional Entertainment and Sports Law Seminar, November 2002
• Speaker, Panel Discussion covering the Negotiation of Online Licensing Agreements in the Music Industry, ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, October 2002
• Speaker, Panel Discussion Regarding New Media Issues Facing the Music Industry, ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, 2001
• Panelist, Emerging Artists and Talent in Music ("EAT'M") Conference, 2000
• Speaker, Webnoize Venture Summit, 2000
• Speaker, Panel Discussions entitled "Internet Music Panel: Focus on Privacy Issues, Piracy Issues and the Future of the Recorded Music Industry" and "Show Me the Money: Merchandising, Licensing and Making Money on the Web," ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, 2000
• Speaker, Panel on the Impact of New Media Developments on Recording Artist Contracts, Digital Distribution and the Music Industry Seminar, 2000
• Speaker, Panel on "The Annual State of the Music Industry," Twelfth Annual Southern Regional Entertainment and Sports Law Seminar, 2000
• Speaker, Panel Discussion on the Future of Online Music, UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium, 2000
• Moderator, legal panel of the MP3 Summit presented by mp3.com, 1999
• Speaker, new media panel, ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, 1999
• Speaker, Panel on "New Media Issues in the Music Industry," Eleventh Annual Southern Regional Entertainment and Sports Law Seminar, 1999
• Speaker, Intellectual Property Issues Confronting the Entertainment Industry, Thomson & Thomson Seminar, 1999
• Speaker, Tulane Law School Digital Music Symposium, 1999
• Speaker, Panel Discussion on "Recent Developments - Emerging Technologies and Their Challenge to the Music Industry," ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, 1998
• Organizer, Program Developer and Moderator, Entertainment Law for the Next Millenium: Legal Issues in New Technology (half day seminar sponsored by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia), 1997
• Moderator, Panel Discussion on New Media Issues in the Entertainment Industries, Ninth Annual Southern Regional Entertainment and Sports Law Seminar, 1997
• Guest lecturer on copyright, trademark, right of publicity and other intellectual property topics at The Atlanta College of Art
• Author, Speaker, ASCAP Panel Discussion on the Impact of Piracy on the Music Industry, April 2003
• Author, Speaker, Copyright Society of the United States of America, Mid-Winter Meeting, regarding the Ongoing Impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Selected as a Georgia Super Lawyer, 2007
• Ranked Number 8 on the list of "Top 50 Trademark Attorneys" for Q2 2006
• Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2007 Editions
• Listed, Chambers & Partners USA Guide, an annual listing of the leading business lawyers and law firms in the world, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005 and 2003-2004 editions
• Nominated as a "Leading Lawyer in Media" by in-house counsel and peers, Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers, 3rd edition
• Trademark Insider, Ranked No. 7 nationally among the "Top 25 Trademark Attorneys", 2004

EDUCATION

• J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1994
• Instructor, legal research and writing
• Instructor, undergraduate course in legal history
• Member, Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law
• Member, International Law Journal
• B.A., summa cum laude, Duke University, 1991
• Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar
• Duke University Faculty Scholar
• Phi Beta Kappa
• USA TODAY All-American Academic Team
• Member, Undergraduate Judicial Boar