IP lawyer and
art historian.
Practice, advocacy, teaching, and writing.
I came to law from inside the creative economy — as a museum director, an institution builder, someone who fixed broken cultural organizations before I had a bar card to do it with. Not all counsel knows what you've built. I co-founded Implement Legal because mine does.
My scholarship examines how fair use doctrine came to divide artists into geniuses and raw material — built around outliers like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and the Warhol Foundation, then applied as the universal case. The doctrine protected the few and left everyone else to supply the material.
Tech companies noticed. The same logic that shielded appropriation art now underwrites AI training on copyrighted work without permission or payment. The extraction logic hasn't changed. It just found a new vehicle.
I know what it's like when your gallery owner is also your friend. When your collaborator becomes your client. When the person across the negotiating table will be at your next ten openings.
Law
I serve galleries, production companies, agencies, and creative businesses navigating complex IP challenges. Copyright strategy and enforcement. Trademark prosecution and defense. Business acquisitions and sales for creative businesses. Licensing agreements, gallery representation, commission structures, estate planning.
Advocacy
I shape IP policy from inside the creative community — working with the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property, and through public writing, conference presentations, and direct engagement with legislation affecting artists. Policy built before the court decision is more useful than commentary written after.
Teaching
I’ve taught Arts & Entertainment Law at Queens University of Charlotte, and delivered talks and workshops at Yale School of Art, the Center for Craft, Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, Mass MoCA, and many other arts organizations.
Writing
I write about intellectual property law — for lawyers, working artists, and the curious public.
Protect Your Magic on Substack connects copyright law to commons theory, feminist analysis, and the recursive logic by which creative labor gets enclosed, digitized, and extracted.
The Secret Weapon on LinkedIn carries the argument to creative business owners who need to understand what IP doctrine actually means to their work, their contracts, and their leverage.