Mark’s practice focuses on copyright, trademark, contract drafting and other issues common to music business transactions, as well as civil litigation involving contracts and view rights. A lifelong musician, Mark got his start in the business side of the music industry at the seminal concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents.
While in law school, Mark was a national finalist and scholarship recipient in the Grammy Foundation’s Entertainment Law Initiative writing competition. As Editor-in-Chief for volume 29 of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review, Mark spearheaded a symposium on the “making available” right. Also while in law school, Mark did pro bono work for Loyola’s Cancer Legal Resource Center and interned at both the legendary film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the San Diego Public Defender’s office. Mark’s Comment, Sparing Internet Radio from the Real Threat of the Hypothetical Marketplace, appears in volume 10 of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology.
In his free time, Mark can be found drumming, surfing, or running the trails of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Education: J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 2009
- Editor-in-Chief, Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review, Volume 29
B.A., University of Puget Sound, 1998
Admissions:
California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Professional Involvement:
Grammy Foundation grading committee
Publications:
Sparing Internet Radio from the Real Threat of the Hypothetical Marketplace,
10 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 543
Honors:
National Finalist and Scholarship Recipient, Grammy Foundation Entertainment Law Initiative