Copyright Office. Prior to joining the Copyright Office in 2013, Rick served for several years as Law Clerk and Senior Staff Attorney for the Chief Judge at Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. In 2012, he earned his LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from The George Washington University Law School. His most recent publication: The Quest for Parity: An Examination of the Internet Radio Fairness Act was published in the Spring ‘13 edition of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA.