Mr. Goldstein is a leading authority in the expanding area of copyright law. Mr. Goldstein works with lawyers in the firm’s offices around the world, advising on copyright and related intellectual property matters that arise in the context of litigation, licensing and counseling. As a member of firm teams in each of these settings, he draws on more than 42 years experience teaching and practicing copyright law to help clients design practical solutions to avoid or minimize legal exposure while achieving positive business results.

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.

During more than 30 years on the faculty of Stanford Law School, he has written numerous articles and books. The third edition of his widely-consulted four-volume treatise, entitled Goldstein on Copyright, was published in 2005 and is updated annually. Mr. Goldstein 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 has been 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 Masters Faculty, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center since 2004.

• Worked on 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; Fujitsu v. IBM Corporation (American Arbitration Association), N.Y. Times v. Tasini , and Eldred v. Ashcroft (the “term extension case”).