title: An Associate's Guide to the Practice of Copyright Law
author:  Meaghan Hemmings Kent 
description: <br><strong>Meaghan Hemmings Kent</strong> is a senior associate at Venable, LLP, where she focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark and copyright claims. She also has experience in trademark prosecution before the USPTO, and proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. <br> <strong>Joshua Kaufman</strong> is a partner at Venable, LLP, where he is the head of the firm's Copyright and Licensing group. He counsels and litigates in the fields of copyright, e-commerce, licensing, art, intellectual property, software, on-line issues, trademark, entertainment, media and literary law. Mr. Kaufman was one of the nation's first computer and cyber lawyers. Kaufman is also one of the country's most well-known art lawyers and represents a wide variety of artists, art publishers, art licensing agents and art licensees.<br>
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