Bob Clarida

Bob Clarida is Of Counsel in the New York office of Ashurst Perkins Coie, where he advises clients on copyright and related issues over a wide range of industries. He has litigated a number of high-profile copyright matters and argued significant federal appeals in several Circuits, including Vetter v. Resnik, which is the topic of his presentation today. He speaks and writes frequently on copyright issues, is the author of the treatise “Copyright Law Deskbook” (Bloomberg, 2d ed. 2016) and is a principal presenter of the year-end review of copyright decisions delivered each June at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society. He co-authors the regular copyright law column in the New York Law Journal, is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School, and has served as an expert reviewer for the Multistate Bar Exam in the intellectual property area. He has been the chair of the copyright committees for the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association's Entertainment Arts & Sports Law section, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He earned his J.D. from Columbia, after earning a Ph.D. in music composition, and receiving a Fulbright fellowship to the Musicology Institute of Gothenburg University, Sweden, where he co-authored a book on musical semiotics with Dr. Philip Tagg.