Dr. Frank Lipsius

Specialization

intellectual property law

- over thirty years’ experience in dealing with copyrights; artist and copyright contracts; sync and subpublishing licenses; and song and master-rights sales.

- extensive dealings in international copyright with European, Asian, African, and Australian labels, publishers and rights’ protection societies.    

 

Education

Temple University School of Law  (J.D., LL.M. in tax, S.J.D in taxation and constitutional law.)

University of Cambridge(B.A., M.A.) 

Cornell University (Honors B.A.)   

 

Experience

- Attorney-at-Law, Pennsylvania 

- Journalist, the Financial Times and The Economist

 

Personal Bio

Dr. Frank Lipsius holds degrees from Cornell University (Honors B.A.), University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A.), Temple University (J.D., LL.M. in tax, S.J.D in taxation and Constitutional law.). He was for more than a decade a correspondent of the Financial Times of London, writing from London, Budapest, and New York. He has written a biography of Alexander the Great (Dutton, 1974); A Law Unto Itself, a history of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell (1986) and journalism for The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, New Society, The New Republic, The Nation, and Commentary. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson traveling fellowship in 1983, studying what became a prescient series on the end of the Soviet empire. He has worked for independent music publishers and April/Blackwood Music, the publishing arm of CBS Records. 

 

Dr. Lipsius practices in the field of intellectual-property law, where he has over thirty years’ experience dealing with copyrightsartist and copyright contracts; sync and subpublishing licenses; and song and master-rights salesIn the United States, he has worked for CBS Music and been associated with family-owned record labels and music publishing companies for more than forty years, where he has gained experience in all aspects of the music and music-publishing industries. He has had extensive dealings in international copyright with European, Asian, African, and Australian labels, publishers and rights’ protection societies.