- Professional/Job Title
- Executive Director, Fair Use Project; Lecturer in Law
- Bio
Tony Falzone is the Executive Director of the Fair Use Project and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. He has advised and defended writers, publishers, filmmakers, musicians and video game makers on copyright, trademark, rights of publicity and other intellectual property matters. He has been recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the fifty leading IP litigators in California, and is a frequent commentator on fair use and copyright issues on television and radio, and in print.
Most recently, he represented RDR Books in its litigation against J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers, and Professor Carol Shloss in her lawsuit against the Estate of James Joyce and its trustee, Stephen James Joyce. He also represented electronic musician BT in a copyright infringement case in the Southern District of New York, and Brave New Films in a DMCA and declaratory judgment action against Viacom in the Northern District of California.
Prior to his work at Stanford, Tony was a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen. He is a 1997 graduate of Harvard Law School, and was a law clerk to the Hon. Barry T. Moskowitz, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of California.
