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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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Trolls and Tribulations

Patent trolls — companies that assert patents as a business model instead of creating products — have been in the news lately. This is hardly surprising, given…

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Fair Use Prospers on Campus

Last week's decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust -- upholding the Mass Digitization Project (MPD) -- was a big victory for fair use. The MDP is a project…

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How Copyright Law Censors Campaigns

Once again, political campaign videos are being censored by copyright law. This time, Mitt Romney is the victim. After President Obama created an ad mocking Rom…