Mr. Goldstein is Of Counsel to Morrison & Foerster and is the Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford University. He received his B.A. degree from Brandeis University in 1964, and his law degree from Columbia University in 1967. He is a member of the bars of California and New York.

Mr. Goldstein is a leading authority in the expanding area of copyright law. During more than 25 years on the faculty of Stanford Law School, he has written numerous articles and books. His four-volume treatise, entitled Copyright (second edition), was published in 1995 and is updated annually. He is also the author of the treatise International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice (2001), Copyright’s Highway: from Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox (Revised ed. 2003), and Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines (Fifth ed. 2003).

Professional activities have expanded Mr. Goldstein’s understanding of, and impact on, the field of intellectual property. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment’s Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information. He was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich, Germany and is a member of the editorial boards of Archiv fur Urheber-Film-Funk-und Theaterrecht and Cambridge Studies in Intellectual Property Rights .

Mr. Goldstein is often called upon to testify before Congress on intellectual property issues. He has appeared numerous times before the House Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, Committee on the Judiciary. He testified on the Colorization of Motion Pictures before the Subcommittee on Technology and the Law, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and on the Office of Technology Assessment Report, “Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information,” before the House and Senate subcommittees.

He has served as a consultant to legal counsel in several pathbreaking copyright cases, including Universal v. Sony (the “Betamax” case); West v. Mead Data Central (the “Star Pagination” case); On Command Video Corp. v. Columbia Pictures Industries ; and Fujitsu v. IBM Corporation (American Arbitration Association). Mr. Goldstein’s practice also includes extensive consulting with multimedia and World Wide Web clients.

Mr. Goldstein has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for Intellectual Property Law since its fourth publication in 1991.