The Law Offices of Joshua Graubart, P.C. is a boutique law firm focusing on copyright, authors’ rights, and related and neighboring rights in the United States and around the world.

The firm represents both American and foreign creative rightsholders – designers, artists and creators, and the publishers, producers and other entrepreneurs and organizations with whom they work – in protecting and monetizing their creative works in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and around the world.

In addition, the firm frequently counsels copyright users – film-makers, theatrical producers, concert promoters, software and fashion houses, and online entrepreneurs – to ensure cost-effective compliance with copyright, authors’ rights, and related and neighboring rights law in the United States and around the world.

The Law Offices of Joshua Graubart, P.C. can help rightsholders

• trace and collect royalties for uses of their work both in the United States and in foreign territories;
• organize and review their catalogs in connection with estate planning projects, such as preparing a will or trust, or assist heirs in understanding and exploiting copyrights and related assets;
• understand and maximize their royalty revenue at home and abroad;
• license their works for use in the United States and abroad; and
• regain (or terminate an old transfer of) their American copyrights to a publisher or other person or organization under sections 203 and/or 304 of the US Copyright Act.

The Law Offices of Joshua Graubart, P.C. can help rights users

• cost-effectively acquire or license the use of music, photographs, video and other creative works – including databases and fashion designs – for use in their own works or services;
• determine whether a proposed use fits within the doctrines of fair use, fair dealing, droit de courte citation, or another exception or limitation to copyright, authors’ rights, or a neighboring or related right; and
• understand local peculiarities of copyright, author’s rights, and neighboring and related rights, and formulate strategies to comply with local law.