Herbsman Hafer Weber & Frisch, LLP is a preeminent boutique law firm providing a wide variety of services to clients in the entertainment field. Their attorneys bring together legal services and business strategy to advise clients on matters relating to music, intellectual property, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, merchandising and brand building, as well as asset acquisition and sales. Their primary focus is in industries such as music and book publishing, television, motion pictures.
Partner Dorothy Weber has represented Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award-winning clients as well as gold and platinum recording artists and members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her transactional practice includes extensive intellectual property licensing activities for merchandise, film and fashion, publishing, and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Weber has successfully lobbied New York State on behalf of celebrity clients in an effort to enact legislation to protect postmortem publicity rights, which came into effect in 2021.
Ms. Weber is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Northern District of Illinois, Second, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Her litigation practice, specializing in intellectual property, covers a broad range of clientele including theatrical and film entities, recording artists and others in copyright, trademark, unfair competition, corporate and contract cases. Ms. Weber has handled a number of seminal Second Circuit cases dealing with copyright and trademark issues, as well as participating in the landmark Supreme Court decision Eric Eldred et al. v. John D. Ashcroft, 01 U.S. 618, by filing an amici curiae brief on behalf of Amsong, Inc. for copyright term extension.
Dorothy Weber has lectured on copyright, trademark and unfair competition issues and is the author of numerous articles in the intellectual property field, including articles appearing in The Visual Artist’s Manual, the New York Law Journal and Cardozo Entertainment Law Review. She has the highest professional rating of AV Preeminent from Martindale Hubbell and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer, Top Women Attorney in New York and a Top-Rated Intellectual Property Lawyer by Martindale Hubbell.