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Marc Greenberg

Professor of Law

Phone: 415-442-6611
E-mail: mgreenberg@ggu.edu
  • AB, University of California, Berkeley
  • JD, University of California Hastings College of the Law
  • Greenberg's IP Buzz Blog




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  • Intellectual Property Law, including Copyright, Trademark, Entertainment, High Technology and Internet law
  • Business Law
  • Civil Litigation
  • Law and Society
  • Solo and Small Firm Practice
  • Legal Ethics
AREAS OF INTEREST
  • 2001 Instructor of the Year, Golden Gate University School of Law
  • Founding Director, IP Law Program, Golden Gate University School of Law
  • Successful Plaintiff's Counsel in groundbreaking ERISA case, Meagher v. IAM, 856 F. 2d 1418 (9th Cir. 1988)
  • AV Preeminent Rated Attorney, Martindale-Hubbell 2010
  • Managing Partner, Nelson & Greenberg; Founding Partner, Law Offices of Marc H. Greenberg, and associate attorney in Bay Area litigation and IP law firms from 1979 to present, 20 years full-time practice before joining the GGU faculty in 2000
  • Chair, Art Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, 2009-10; Member, Executive Board, Art Law Section, 2009-2012
  • Creator and writer for Greenberg's IP Buzz Blog, 2009
  • Visiting Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2009-2010 (teaching Civil Procedure)
  • Co-Chair - Copyright Section, San Francisco IP Law Association
  • Member and Mediator for California Lawyers for the Arts
  • Lecturer, Presenter and Panelist for IP-related programs and conferences for the American Bar Association's Copyright, and Sports and Entertainment Law Sections; The San Francisco IP Law Association; The GGU International Law Fulbright Conference; The Comic Arts Conference; The Philadelphia Bar Institute; and Comic Book Law School at the San Diego International ComicCon
  • Member, State Bar of California, U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California, Eastern District of California, Central District of California, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Comics, Courts and Controversy: A Case Study of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (forthcoming 2012).
  • Book Review: Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (Duke University Press 2009), by Lucas Hilderbrand, In 1:2 The IP Law Book Review, published by the IP Law Center, Golden Gate University School of Law 77 (2011).
  • The Sly Rabbit and the Three C's: Copyright, Calligraphy and China, 7 Loyola University Chicago International Law Review 163 (2010).
  • Kurlan v. CBS: Justice Carter's Prescient Dissent - A Glimpse into the Future of Copyright Protection in the Entertainment Industry, ch. in The Great Dissents of the "Lone Dissenter": Justice Jesse W. Carter's Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).
  • Reason or Madness: A Defense of Copyright's Growing Pains, 7 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2007). The article is available here.
  • The Baby and the Bathwater Too: A Critique of A.L.A. v. U.S., Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter (Spring 2006). The article is available here.
  • A Return to Lilliput: The LICRA v. Yahoo! Case and the Regulation of Online Content in the World Market, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1191 (2003).
  • Book review: Multimedia Law: Forms and Analysis, 12:4 Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 10 (1995).
  • Constitutional Review: Supreme Court, October 1977 Term, 6 Hastings Const. L. Q. 19 (1979).
PUBLICATIONS
  • Content Licensing
  • Business Associations
  • Entertainment Law
  • Intellectual Property Law Survey
  • Internet and Software Law
  • Riding the IP Wave: Legal and Technical Skills Needed for New Technology Issues
  • Civil Procedure I & II
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Solo and Small Firm Law Practice
  • Legal Methods
COURSES TAUGHT
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