Lidia C. Mowad

Overview

Lidia focuses her practice on Intellectual Property Litigation. Lidia’s practice covers both litigation and transactional work, focusing on copyright, media, entertainment, trademark, and right of publicity/privacy law. She has experience in handling complicated litigation matters in these areas in federal and state courts, and in counseling clients regarding strategic protection, content risk, and compliance issues.

Lidia gained a wide variety of entertainment, copyright, trademark, media, and advertising experience while externing for NBCUniversal in their TV Legal Division and for the Federal Trade Commission. Lidia also gained valuable, on-the-ground litigation training at an intellectual property litigation firm, where she represented clients in bet-the-company patent and technology litigations, and at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, where she represented Ohio’s executive officials, departments, and agencies at all stages of civil litigation in trial and appellate proceedings, in state and federal court.

By understanding the creative process as a musician and lawyer, Lidia works to give creators and intellectual property the unique protection that they need.   

Successfully resolved disputes involving:

• Copyright infringement and CMI defense involving music, photographs, videos, text, designs, fabric, software, and other creative content, with a focus on social media allegations
• Large-scale DMCA takedown notice disputes and counter-notices
• Fair use defense litigation
• Right of publicity claims (when tied to content or media use)
• Licensing disputes and alleged overuse or misuse of content