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Toby M. J. Butterfield's Profile Image

Toby M. J. Butterfield

Recognized by Best Lawyers® since 2020.
The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10174-1299
(212) 554-7800
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tbutterfield@mosessingr.com
Firm: Moses & Singer LLP
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Moses & Singer LLP


Years In Practice

31


Phone Number (212) 554-7800

Toby M.J. Butterfield is a partner in Moses & Singer's Intellectual Property and Litigation groups.

Mr. Butterfield has 25 years of experience litigating and counseling on copyright, trademark, defamation, software and digital media, and commercial matters. His clients include media and entertainment companies, motion picture and theater producers, major brand owners, technology companies and designers of luxury goods. His recent work includes successfully representing an "over the top" TV broadcaster in a distribution dispute with numerous Russian broadcasters; successful defense of a well-known theater production in a jury trial concerning music royalty payments; representation of a regional on-line pharmacy in cases concerning false advertising, trademark, fraud and RICO claims; defending book publishers in copyright litigations; and obtaining a fair use dismissal of copyright infringement claims against theater producers concerning a parody play. He has successfully dismissed claims against film producers and distributors, theater producers, technology and software companies, and has obtained injunctions and seizure orders for magazine publishers and a well-known producer of children's TV programming. He regularly counsels IP owners and performs pre-publication and pre-broadcast review of content for publishers of books, motion pictures, newspapers and magazines.

Mr. Butterfield writes and speaks frequently for bar associations and industry organizations. He is Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he has conducted a seminar on Social Media Law and Regulation since 2014. He co-chaired the Entertainment Business Law Seminar during the annual CMJ Music Festival at NYU, which is now MONDO.NYC. He has lectured at AIPLA's annual national conference and to PLI on copyright fair use, and authored the first chapter of Counseling Content Providers in the Digital Age on defamation for the New York State Bar Association. He has published articles written for the Copyright Society of the USA, ABA's Landslide magazine, Media Law Resource Center and other bar associations and publications regularly on Fair Use, Copyright Termination, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other hot topics. He has lectured at legal and television industry conferences all over the world and taught Media and Entertainment Law at Cardozo Law School. Mr. Butterfield currently co-chairs MLRC's Media Copyright and Trademark Committee, and chaired the New York City Bar's Committee on Entertainment Law, its Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction, WNYC Radio's Community Advisory Board, and was Administrator of the New York State Supreme Court Screening Panel for Democratic Party judicial candidates in New York County.

He has appeared on BBC World News, Forbes TV, and been quoted by the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, Law360 and many other news and legal publications.

Toby is listed in the Best Lawyers in America ® for IP Litigation and has been designated a Superlawyer since 2009.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Butterfield was a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC.Professional

Affiliations

  • Co-Chair, Media Law Resource Center's Media Copyright and Trademark Committee
  • Former chair and current member, New York City Bar's Entertainment Law Committee
  • Member, NYC Bar’s and NYS Bar Association’s Communications and Media Committees
  • Former chair, New York City Bar's Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction
  • Member, AIPLA, NYSBA, Copyright Society of the USA.
What legal services does this lawyer offer?
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property
What is the scope of this lawyer's practice?
 
Litigation - Intellectual Property - 60%
 
Commercial Litigation - 25%
 
Intellectual Property - 15%
How is this lawyer compensated?
Hourly
This lawyer is compensated by clients, often based on an hourly fee.
Bar Admissions
New York
Admitted in 1991
Organizations & Affiliations
Columbia Law School
Lecturer in Law.
Media Law Resource Center
Chair, Media Copyright and Trademark Committee.
New York City Bar
Former Chair, Entertainment Law and State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction Committees. Member, Communications & Media Committee. Former member, Judiciary Committee,, Council on Judicial Administration and Intellectual Property cluster.
New York State Bar Association
Communications and Media Law Committee.
Work Experience
Moses & Singer
2018 - Current
Frankfurt Kurnit
2011 - 2018
Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard
2003 - 2011
Kay Collyer & Boose
1994 - 2003
Sullivan & Cromwell
1990 - 1994
Education
New York University, LL.M.
Graduated 1990
Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Finals
Graduated 1989
University of Oxford, BA (Hons.)
Graduated 1988
Contact Details and Office Locations
Office: (212) 554-7800
tbutterfield@mosessingr.com
The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10174-1299
New York, New York 10174-1299
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