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Profile
David Sternbach is Litigation & Intellectual Property Counsel at A&E Television Networks in New York City, where his practice encompasses all aspects of media law in traditional and emerging formats. He is responsible for supervising outside counsel and leading internal efforts in connection with all disputes and litigations arising from the company's international multimedia business, and he has broad responsibility for intellectual property matters generally, including management of a large international trademark portfolio, and analysis of intellectual property and other rights in new media.
David has served as Co-Chair of the New Technologies Committee of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, worked extensively with New York's Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, published numerous articles in law reviews, art and film magazines, and elsewhere, and he speaks frequently to groups of lawyers, artists, and others about media, intellectual property, and related issues.
Before joining AETN, David worked as an associate at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. He holds JD and MA degrees from New York University, and worked for ten years as an acquiring editor in trade book publishing in New York before attending NYU School of Law (cum laude, 1996), where he was an editor of the law review.
AETN is comprised of A&E Network®, The History Channel®, five other domestic digital networks, and a consumer products division. AETN also distributes certain of its networks and programs in more than 125 countries around the world.
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