Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); database protection legislation; the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; and other statutes relating to copyrights, privacy, spam, cybersecurity, and indecency. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions.

Mr. Band’s policy practice has an international dimension as well. He has worked on the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Copyright Treaty; the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention and Hate Speech Protocol; and the Hague Convention on Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements. He also has submitted comments concerning the revision of intellectual property laws in countries as diverse as Canada, Australia, Singapore, Korea, and Israel.

Mr. Band’s deep substantive knowledge of the application of intellectual property law to information technology permits him to counsel clients on the scope of copyright protection for computer programs; secondary liability and the DMCA’s safe harbors for Internet service providers; the DMCA’s prohibition on the circumvention of access and copy control technology; the protection of online databases; the fair use status of digitization projects; and other complex intellectual property issues.

Mr. Band’s clients include Internet companies, providers of information technology, universities, and library associations.

Mr. Band has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet, including the book Interfaces on Trial and over 60 articles. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.