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Daniel Nazer

Daniel Nazer

Daniel is Associate General Counsel, IP at Reddit.

Before joining Reddit, Daniel worked as Senior IP Counsel at Mozilla and as Senior Staff Attorney and Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has also practiced at Keker & Van Nest LLP.

From 2011-2012, Daniel was a Residential Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society where he represented writers, painters, filmmakers, and others who rely on fair use to create their art and scholarship.

Daniel is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Susan Kenny of the Federal Court of Australia and Judge William K. Sessions, III of the District of Vermont.

Recent articles

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A Glance Inside The Clearance Culture

The clearance culture is the set of norms and practices within the entertainment industry that mandates—whether or not the law actually requires it—that every s…

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A Rosenhan Experiment for the PTO

How accurate is the Patent and Trademark Office? Can its examiners tell good patents from bad? Many doubt that they can and the PTO is often criticized for allo…

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Could Microsoft Own Crowdsourcing?

The patent application has a simple title: Crowdsourcing. Filed on May 18, 2009, the application is assigned to Microsoft and claims a “computer-implemented” c…

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Blurring the Situation

Abercrombie & Fitch has offered to pay Jersey Shore cast member Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino not to wear its clothing. I hesitate to give this publicity…

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An Open Reply to PZ on Copyright

Louis Zukofsky (LZ) is the author of the very long, sometimes difficult, yet always amazing “A”.  LZ died in 1978 and his son, Paul Zukofsky (PZ), owns the copy…

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A Tale of Two Lawsuits

Thanks to sites like Yelp, online citizen reviews are often the first thing people read about local businesses.  So it's not surprising that business owners…