Edward Klaris is the Managing Partner of Klaris Law, a media, entertainment and intellectual property law firm based in New York, and he is Chief Executive Officer of KlarisIP, an advisory firm focusing on intellec tual property rights management, content supply-chain management, and royalties and participations in the media and entertainment business.  Ed has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School in NY since 2005, where he teaches an IP and media law seminar.  Ed often speaks and writes on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain in the M&E space.  Before starting his firms, Ed was Senior Vice President, intellectual property at Condé Nast; he was General Counsel of The New Yorker magazine for about 7 years, media counsel at Disney, and a litigator at Davis Wright Tremaine.  Ed’s firms are headquar   tered in NYC with offices in Los Angeles, Washington DC and London.

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