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Casey Chisick co-chairs the Intellectual Property and Sports & Entertainment practices at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in Toronto. He is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) as a Certified Specialist in Intellectual Property (Copyright). Having worked as a law professor, a jazz promoter and a musician – and even as artistic director of an internationally-renowned folk dance company – Casey offers his clients a rare combination of recognized expertise in copyright and other intellectual property matters and first-hand experience in the business of entertainment. As litigation counsel, Casey has appeared in five seminal copyright cases before the Supreme Court of Canada: SOCAN v. Bell Canada, Entertainment Software Association v. SOCAN, Rogers Communications v. SOCAN, Alberta v. Access Copyright, and CBC v. SODRAC. He has also represented clients in copyright and entertainment matters before the courts of Ontario and British Columbia, the Federal Court, and the Federal Court of Appeal. Moreover, Casey has extensive experience in rate-setting proceedings before the Copyright Board of Canada. Casey serves as an officer and member of the executive committee of CSUSA and founding co-chair of the CSUSA International Chapter; Chair of the ABA International Copyright Laws & Treaties committee; co-chair of the biennial LSUC Entertainment, Media & Advertising Law Symposium; Course Director for the Copyright Master Class presented annually by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and McGill University; and a member of the advisory board of IP Osgoode, a research institute at Osgoode Hall Law School that explores legal and policy issues at the intersection of intellectual property and technology. Casey was the gold medallist in law at the University of Manitoba, earned a Masters of Law as a Fulbright and Frank Knox scholar at Harvard Law School, and served as law clerk to The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Lacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. He began his professional career as a law professor, first at the University of Manitoba and later at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught copyright, intellectual property, corporate law, negotiation and dispute resolution to hundreds of students.
Dan Cooper currently serves as SVP of Intellectual Property, Head of IP Analysis and Insights at NBCUniversal. Based in Universal City, he oversees a team of lawyers and analysts that advise and collaborate with NBCUniversal entertainment divisions worldwide (across live action & animated film & television, theme park, and merchandising) on production, distribution and ancillary rights issues, including copyright issues that arise throughout the entire lifecycle of IP. Prior to NBCUniversal, Dan’s in house entertainment/copyright experience also included working at Paramount Pictures as SVP, Intellectual Property and as VP, Business & Legal Affairs at Fox Interactive Media/Myspace. Before making the transition in-house, Dan worked as an IP litigator at the Los Angeles offices of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and Arnold & Porter. He is a graduate of Columbia University for both college and law school, and resides in LA with his wife, three children and dog.
Aldo de Landa has been an associate in the IP Litigation Department of Arochi & Lindner’s Mexico City office since 2000. He has more than 18 years of experience in intellectual property counseling and litigation involving trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition and domain names. Aldo holds a law degree from ITAM and a Master in Law specializing in Intellectual Property from University College London. He is a member of AMPPI (the Mexican chapter of AIPPI), where he serves on the Copyrights Committee, as well as of CSUSA and INTA. In addition, Aldo has served as a professor at Panamericana University and the Institute of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, where he taught courses on copyright law, intellectual property litigation and domain name disputes. He also worked as Deputy Director of Projects at the Mexican Copyright Office in 2009. He has authored several articles in journals and other publications.
William H. Frankel is a Shareholder at Brinks, Gilson & Leone. In over three decades of practice, Bill has earned a reputation for his uncompromising ethics and dedication to client needs. He has been honored as an Illinois Super Lawyer in Intellectual Property Litigation since 2005, has been named in Euromoney’s Guides to the World's Leading Patent and Trademark Law Experts, and has been recognized by Chambers U.S.A., The Best Lawyers in America, and Who’s Who Legal, among other accolades. He is also a trained mediator, using his judgment and experience to help both clients and litigants resolve intellectual property disputes outside the courtroom.
Naomi Jane Gray is a principal in the law firm Shades of Gray Law Group, P.C., where she focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, prosecution and counseling, with a particular emphasis on copyrights and trademarks. She has managed complex cases in all phases of litigation, from prelitigation counseling through appellate review, and has considerable experience in discovery and motion practice. Ms. Gray’s extensive copyright law experience includes representing a magazine publisher in a series of cutting-edge lawsuits at the intersection of traditional print media and emerging electronic technologies which ultimately established the publisher’s right to reproduce its magazine in electronic format (see, e.g., Faulkner, et al. v. National Geographic Society, et al., 294 F. Supp. 2d 523 (S.D.N.Y. 2003); aff’d, 409 F.3d 26 (2d Cir. 2005)). Ms. Gray has advised clients with respect to diverse types of copyright issues, including fair use, work for hire, transfers, licenses and enforcement in transactional, counseling and litigation settings. Ms. Gray is a frequent speaker on topical issues on the copyright area, having appeared at events hosted by the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.; the American Intellectual Property Law Association; the Practising Law Institute; the American Bar Association; the State Bar of California; the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association; and the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Her publications include: Fair Use, published in Understanding Copyright Law 2009 (Practising Law Institute) Enforcing Copyrights, published in Understanding Copyright Law 2008 (Practising Law Institute) Overview of Copyright Basics and Basic of the Copyright Office, published in Understanding Copyright Law 2007 (Practising Law Institute) International Protection of a Franchisor’s System (Copyrights), published in American Bar Association Forum on Franchising (2004) Comment: Analyzing the Publisher’s Section 201(c) Privilege in the Wake of New York Times v. Tasini, 53 C.W.L.R. (2003) Ms. Gray served as the Chair of the Northern California Chapter of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A from 2005-2007 and as a Trustee of the Copyright Society from 2006-2008. She also served on the Committee on Copyrights and Literary Property of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 2000-2003. Ms. Gray is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York; the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second and Ninth Circuits; and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Gray graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995, where she served as an editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law and the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in Government and French Studies from Smith College in 1992, where she competed at the 1992 World Debating Championships in Dublin, Ireland and the 1992 National Debating Championships in Boston, Massachusetts. She also holds a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. She is fluent in French.
Nancy Kopans is vice president, general counsel and secretary of ITHAKA, and oversees the organization’s legal, compliance, and governance needs. She has served on many copyright and tax-exempt organization committees as well as on boards of directors. Nancy holds a bachelor of arts in earth sciences from Dartmouth College, a master of arts and master of philosophy in English from Columbia University, and a juris doctor from Georgetown University.
Kevin Tottis opened TottisLaw, where he is Managing Partner, in 1996 after several years as a partner in a national law firm. He has over 30 years of litigation experience, first-chairing dozens of matters for clients across the country. Along with his substantial background in commercial cases, Kevin has extensive experience in all areas of intellectual property litigation and is a frequent speaker and writer on IP issues. He is on the faculty of the Practising Law Institute, is a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent-rated attorney and has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer since 2010. Kevin has been elected by his peers to leadership positions in several professional associations including seats on the boards of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and Lawyers Club of Chicago and secretary of the U.S. group of the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriètè Intellectuelle. He also is an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from The University of Michigan (A.B. 1983, with Distinction and Honors in English; J.D. 1986).
Margaret Wheeler-Frothingham is a managing associate in the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Her practice covers all aspects of copyright and trademark litigation, as well as counseling, licensing and prosecution.

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