Fox Rothschild and the 'Dark Art of Copyright Trolling'
The firm is representing a pornography company in its latest nationwide copyright infringement campaign. Can it avoid the controversies that preceded its involvement? Or will a small-time lawyer from Oregon provide the blueprint to stop it?
July 13, 2018 at 04:31 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
Fox Rothschild profiled in The New Yorker in 2014 won an industry award for director of the year he said to a cheering crowd profiled earlier this year in a Rolling Stone story pricey photo shoots bikini-clad model's stilettoed feet dangle outside @LALincolnLawyer visiting professor epicenter of the porn business no stranger to quirky clients 
who joined Fox Rothschild in 2015 according to Amazon.com Inc The Pornography Industry $2 billion a year Lansky's vision Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling The 'Anti-Prenda' infamous lawyers behind criminal plea deal now disbarred Steele signed in March 2017 17-page response filed in June Malibu Connections filing copyright applications Peanuts and Scotch Controversial Takedown 
sided with BMG reconfigure damages Economic Theory Putting Up a Fight Copyright Trolling, an Empirical Study Feiser's testimony
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