Biography
Karen Berry’s areas of practice include intellectual property counseling, transactions, and licensing and corporate transactions and counseling.
Representative Matters
Intellectual Property Transactions
Drafting and negotiating Internet and new media agreements (website development, hosting and maintenance; co-location; e-commerce; technology outsourcing; advertising; digital and wireless delivery; content licensing and co-branding; technology transfer; multimedia products; database licensing; web site terms of use); publishing agreements (on behalf of publishers and authors); literary agency; entertainment (music licensing; music administration; celebrity appearances; endorsement agreements; television program production and licensing; film development fund; product fulfillment for public television premiums and infomercials; interactive entertainment web site); trademark licensing (international and domestic); software agreements (development, maintenance, and licensing; source code escrow).
Intellectual Property Counseling
General counseling on a broad spectrum of intellectual property issues including creation, acquisition, transfer, and licensing of various intellectual property rights, trademark issues (prosecution and protection of marks); copyright issues (fair use, potential infringement issues); online privacy issues (privacy policies; compliance with laws and regulations); domain name disputes.
Corporate Transactions and Counseling
Drafting, negotiating and counseling with respect to various arrangements and agreements (consulting, supplier, distribution, confidentiality and nondisclosure, employment and severance, and research collaboration).
Public speaking on intellectual property issues concerning for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Representative clients include well-known entertainer, international apparel company, international conservation organization, major media organizations and publishers, museums and cultural organizations, private foundations and publicly-supported organizations, professional trade organization, sports-related organization, scientific research organizations, and internet companies.
- New York
MEMBER: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State Bar Association; NACUA (National Association of College and University Attorneys); AUTM (Association of University Technology Managers); Public speaking on intellectual property issues concerning for-profit and not-for-profit organizations
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Speaker, “Special Copyright Issues for Museums, Foundations, and Other Non-Profits,” PLI Seminar on “Advanced Copyright Law 2017: Current Issues” (March 16, 2017); Panelist, "IP in a Virtual World," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (2010); Panelist, "How to survive Second Life," AIPLA Annual Meeting (October 17, 2009)