Steve Metalitz
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| Email: | metalitz [at] iipa.com |
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Steve Metalitz is the Senior Vice President of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a coalition of U.S. trade associations that represents over 1,900 companies producing and distributing materials protected by copyright laws throughout the world. At IIPA he focuses protecting the copyright in electronic and print media and execution of the WIPO Internet laws.[1] Metalitz is a partner at Smith & Metalitz law firm. He specializes in intellectual property, privacy and e-commerce sectors.[2] He chairs the IPC. He is a member of the District of Columbia and South Carolina bars.
Education
He has degrees from the University of Chicago (A.B. with honors) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.).
Career History
He has been counsel to IIPA since 1994. While working at the Creative Incentive Coalition, he had a big role in the development of Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He has also represented virtually all copyright industry groups in each of the four Copyright Office rulemaking proceedings held pursuant to the DMCA since 2000. He has served six terms as a President of the Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN's GNSO. [3]
He has been the General Counsel of the Information Industry Association. He has also held staff positions in the U.S Senate. At George Washington University Law School, he has taught several copyright courses. He has also lectured on the topics of ecommerce and copyright at Foreign Universities.[4]