HENRY R. KAUFMAN,
P.C.
Attorneys at Law
60
East 42nd Street
47th
Floor
New
York, New York 10165
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December 2011
To Our Clients and Friends:
During this period while our firm website remains under development, you
may contact us directly at the following email addresses and telephone
numbers:
Henry
R.
Kaufman hrkaufman@aol.com
Direct Dial: 212-880-0842
Michael
K.
Cantwell mkcantwell@rcn.com
Direct Dial: 718-830-0082
You can also scroll down to view our bios below.
As our firm grows and our practice expands, we look forward to continuing
to serve our current clients, and to making our services available to future
clients in need of legal representation or advice, in their publishing,
media, music, first amendment, copyright, trademark and other transactions or
litigation.
Best regards.
Very truly yours,
Henry R. Kaufman
Michael K. Cantwell
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Henry
R. Kaufman
Media and Intellectual
Property Law
Trial and Appellate Litigation
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60 East 42nd Street, 47th Floor
New York, New York 10165
Phone: (212)
880-0842
Fax: (212) 682-1965
Email: hrkaufman@aol.com
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Henry Kaufman, the principal of Henry R. Kaufman, P.C., has been a
nationally-recognized leader of the publishing and media law bar for more than three
decades.
Mr. Kaufman began his publishing law career as General Counsel of
the Association of American Publishers where he represented the book publishing
industry on both First Amendment and copyright law issues, including the latter
stages of passage and initial implementation of the Copyright Reform Act of
1976.
While at AAP Mr. Kaufman helped to found, and thereafter served
for fifteen years as General Counsel of, the Libel Defense Resource Center/LDRC
(now known as the Media Law Resource Center/MLRC), a national coalition of
media companies, media and journalism organizations and law firms focused on
advancing the legal rights and interests of the media in the United States, in
particular as regards their First Amendment rights.
After leaving the LDRC, Mr. Kaufman joined SESAC, Inc., the music
performing rights licensing company, where he served as Senior Vice President-General
Counsel from 1996 to 1999. At SESAC he dealt
with individual and industry-wide licensing transactions, copyright infringement
litigation and copyright arbitrations, and legislative matters in connection
with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1999, the Copyright Term Extension
Act and the Fairness in Music Licensing Act.
Mr. Kaufman’s current practice focuses on litigation and
transactional matters for book, newspaper and online publishers, authors,
artists, film and music industry clients, higher education and other
individual, corporate and law firm clients covering a range of both First
Amendment and Intellectual Property law matters, including defamation, privacy,
publicity, commercial speech, access, reporter’s privilege, prior restraint,
obscenity and indecency, and copyright, trademark, tradename,
unfair competition, trade secrets, misappropriation and “hot news.” He also
maintains an active pre-publication and pre-broadcast review practice.
Education
-Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude,
1971
-Hamilton College,
A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, 1967
Other Affiliations
-Lankenau, Kovner & Bickford, Of Counsel, 1980-82
-Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison, Litigation Associate, 1972-76
Professional Activities/Publications
-American Law Institute, Member (1995-present)
-American Bar Foundation, Member
(2011-present)
-Copyright Society of the U.S.A.,
Board of Trustees (1979 – 1985), Member (1976-present)
-New York City Bar
Association, Communications and Media Law Committee (1976-82; 1990-96; 2001-present)
LDRC 50-STATE
SURVEY OF DEVELOPMENTS IN MEDIA LIBEL LAW, Editor (Annual, 1982 - 1997)
LDRC 50-STATE SURVEY OF MEDIA PRIVACY AND RELATED LAW, Editor (Annual,
1995 - 1997)
“Reflections on the New ALI Restatement
(Third) of Unfair Competition,” National
Law Journal (February 1995)
“Potential
Impact of the Uniform Correction or Clarification of Defamation Act on Damages,”
LDRC Bulletin (July 1994)
“Breathing Space” in the
“Two-Live Crew” Case, National Law
Journal (May 1994)
Michael
K. Cantwell, P.C.
Of Counsel
Media and Intellectual Property Law
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Queens Office:
102-30 66th Road, Suite 30D
Forest Hills, New York 11375
Phone: (718) 830-0082
Fax: (718) 830-0082
Email: mkc@mcantwell.com
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Manhattan Office:
60 East 42nd Street, 47th Floor
New York, New York 10165
Phone: (212)
880-0842
Fax: (212)
682-1965
Web site: www.mcantwell.com
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Prior to establishing a solo practice in 2005, Mr. Cantwell worked
as an intellectual property and media attorney for twelve years. In addition to his solo practice, Mr.
Cantwell is also Of Counsel to Henry R. Kaufman, P.C., where he focuses on media
and intellectual property law, with a concentration on trademark and publishing
law.
Between 2001 and 2005, Mr. Cantwell was an intellectual property
attorney in the New York
office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, concentrating on trademark,
copyright and publishing law. In that capacity, Mr. Cantwell counseled clients
on the protection and enforcement of their intellectual property assets and
drafted and negotiated trademark and technology licenses and consulting,
publishing, security, technology escrow, and web site development and hosting
agreements. He also regularly advised corporate attorneys and clients on
intellectual property matters related to corporate transactions, including the
interplay between intellectual property and bankruptcy law. Between 1998 and
2001, Mr. Cantwell served in a similar capacity in the New York office of Dewey Ballantine,
LLP.
Mr. Cantwell began his legal career working in the media and
publishing law practice of Henry R. Kaufman and for the Libel Defense Resource
Center (n.k.a. the Media Law Resource Center), for
which Mr. Kaufman served as General Counsel and Mr. Cantwell served as
Associate General Counsel.
Prior to entering law school, Mr. Cantwell had more than 14 years’
business experience developing, managing and publishing scientific journals for
Elsevier Science Publishing Co. (n.k.a.
Reed-Elsevier) and the American Institute of Physics. Mr. Cantwell has a
Masters degree in intellectual property law from New
York University and a
JD from St. John’s
University.
Mr. Cantwell is currently a member of the Copyright & Literary
Property Committee of the New York City Bar Association and previously served
on the City Bar’s Trademark and Unfair Competition and Information Technology
Law Committees as well as on the editorial board of The Trademark Reporter, the
official journal of the International Trademark Association. He has published
widely in the areas of intellectual property, media and civil rights law.
Education
New York University
School of Law, LL.M., Trade
Regulation/Intellectual Property, 1997
St. John’s University School of Law, J.D., 1993
New York University, M.A., English
Literature, 1978
City University of New
York, B.A., Mathematics, 1976
Publications
“Confusion,
Dilution and Speech: First Amendment Limitations on the Trademark Estate: An
Update,” The Trademark Reporter
(May/June 2004)
“Linking and
Framing on the Internet: Recent Developments and the Boundaries of Fair Use,” Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA
(Summer 2002)
“Exploring the Boundaries of Coexisting
Trademarks,” New York Law Journal
(January 15, 1999) (co-author)
“Confusion,
Dilution, and Speech: First Amendment Limitations on the Trademark Estate,” The Trademark Reporter
(January/February 1997)
“‘Constitutional’ Torts and the Due
Process Clause,” Temple Political and
Civil Rights Law Review (Fall 1995)
“Reflections on the New ALI Restatement
(Third) of Unfair Competition,” National
Law Journal (February 1995) (co-author)
“Moldea II: Are
Book Reviews Protected?” Publisher’s
Weekly (October 1994) (co-author)
“Potential Impact of the Uniform Correction or
Clarification of Defamation Act on Damages,” LDRC Bulletin (July 1994) (co-author)
“Breathing Space” in the “Two-Live Crew” Case, National Law Journal (May 1994)
(co-author)