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Hillel I. Parness
Languages spoken
English
Hebrew
Career highlights
Secured a decision on summary judgment for major performing rights organization that certain types of musical performances on the Internet and wireless devices are not a fair use under the U.S. Copyright Act.
Member of the trial team that successfully defended a US trader in the New York Supreme Court against criminal charges arising from mutual fund "late trading."
Represented member companies of Recording Industry Association of America in infringement action against pirate CD manufacturer.
Hillel is a partner in the Intellectual Property, Media and Technology group in New York, where he focuses on matters of copyright, Internet, trademark and communications litigation. Hillel is also an adjunct member of the Intellectual Property faculty of Columbia Law School, where he has taught a seminar in Internet copyright law since 2002. Additionally, Hillel is on the Board of Editors of Cyberspace Lawyer.
Hillel focuses his practice on cases involving the proper use and licensing of copyrighted works, especially the use of music on the Internet and other new media venues. He also represents and advises clients on a wide range of intellectual property issues, including trademark and trade dress infringement and registration, trademark dilution, theft of trade secrets, domain name purchases and ownership disputes and privacy.
In addition to his intellectual property experience, Hillel has had extensive experience with a broad range of commercial litigation and arbitration, and in particular securities class actions and white-collar criminal matters.
Hillel is a graduate of Columbia University Law School (JD 1995) and Columbia College (BA via AILE 1995).