Katherine C. Spelman
Microsoft
Redmond,
WA
Katherine C. Spelman is senior copyright counsel at Microsoft. She has more than 30 years of experience providing strategic advice, design, and implementation counsel for large, mid-sized, and start-up companies on copyright, trademark, trade secret, and patent matters— both nationally and internationally—with a special focus on media, licensing, and mass digitization issues. Ms. Spelman advises and counsels clients on the development, production, sale, and defense of work related to emerging content distribution strategies and challenges; special issues in news reporting including repurposing content; and firewall and paywall configuration in light of changes in the fair use defense. She is a frequent speaker on the progress of emerging copyright and digital publishing issues, and has advised authors, publishers, and Internet service providers on the new language and provisions of the global distribution environment. She has represented large digital publishing companies in international distribution agreements as well as developers and designers who are building and launching tools for online transmissions, storytelling, expression, and art. Ms. Spelman assists clients with Open Source licensing issues, including integrated licenses, audits, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, and compliance negotiations. She also helps clients design independent holding companies in the U.S. and in offshore intellectual property asset management. Ms. Spelman has experience with intellectual property asset audits and proactive and reactive Sarbanes-Oxley compliance reporting requirements.
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