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Brian G. Murphy is a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC where he practices advertising, intellectual property, and entertainment law.

Mr. Murphy is uniquely positioned to help clients where entertainment and advertising converge. He counsels advertising agencies, advertisers, and entertainment companies on all aspects of their businesses, with a focus on copyright, trademark, right of publicity/right of privacy, false advertising, and unfair competition. His practice includes structuring and negotiating celebrity talent agreements, product placement contracts, sponsorship arrangements, music licenses, and agency-client contracts.  He also counsels clients on disputes arising out of commercials, print advertisements, magazines, films, television productions, and Web sites.  In addition, Mr. Murphy regularly advises major brands on the issues surrounding the development and production of branded entertainment projects such as television shows, films, live events, electronic games, Web sites, and magazines.
   
Mr. Murphy is a frequent speaker on advertising, entertainment and intellectual property issues.  In the recent past, he has given presentations at the American Bar Association (“Lies, Lies, Lies (Yeah).  They’re Gonna Get You:  False Advertising in Emerging Media”), the Copyright Society of America (“Copyright, Lanham Act, Right of Publicity, and Contract Claims Arising from the Use of Music in Commercials”), the New York State Bar Association (“Keeping it Real: The Use of People, Places, and Things in Works of Entertainment”), the American Conference Institute’s “Branded Integration Deals” conference in Los Angeles (“Working with Talent and Talent Unions”), Cardozo Law School (“Beyond Bathhouse Betty:  The Use of Music in Advertising”), the American Conference Institute’s “IP in Advertising” Conference in New York City (“Copyrights and Copywrongs:  Using Others’ Copyrighted Material in Advertising”), and New York Law School (“The Slinky Dress:  Secondary Liability and the Future of Digital Innovation”), to name a few.

Mr. Murphy is a member of the adjunct faculty at New York Law School where he teaches courses on entertainment and copyright law.  Mr. Murphy previously taught at Fordham University Law School.  He is a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the New York City Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association, and the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.  My Murphy was named a 2006 New York-area “Super Lawyer” for Intellectual Property law by Law and Politics magazine.

Mr. Murphy is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA, magna cum laude, 1989; Phi Beta Kappa) and New York University School of Law (JD, cum laude, 1992), where he was an editor of the New York University Law Review.  Following law school, Mr. Murphy clerked for the Hon. Leonard B. Sand, United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York.