Ben Danieli provides strategic advice to clients on intellectual property, licensing, commercialization, and development matters across the technology and media industries. He has represented vendors and purchasers of information technology and software services, nonprofit organizations in connection with scientific and other research and charitable initiatives, and developers and deployers of artificial intelligence technologies in connection with compliance and risk assessment efforts. Ben also assists clients with intellectual property and technology matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, financings, and other corporate transactions.
Ben counsels artificial intelligence companies on copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) issues, AI governance and risk management, and compliance with rapidly evolving AI laws and regulations. In the traditional and new media sectors, Ben advises sports and entertainment clients on endorsement, sponsorship, advertising, and other promotional arrangements, including compliance with related FTC guidelines and disclosure obligations.
Ben has experience drafting and negotiating a wide variety of agreements, including SaaS, independent contractor, invention assignment, development, collaboration, confidentiality, data licensing, joint venture, promotional, and content creation agreements. Ben also regularly advises on and drafts consumer-facing terms, including online terms of service and sale, in addition to rewards program terms and conditions, acceptable use policies, subscription terms, and end-user license agreements.
Ben earned his J.D. from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where he served as alumni affairs editor of the Hofstra Law Review and completed an Intellectual Property Honors Concentration. During law school, Ben participated in the Community & Economic Development Clinic, where he provided transactional assistance to community-based organizations, including nonprofit and cooperative corporations, and served as a research assistant for the law school's library, assisting school administrators and faculty members with a wide range of technology-based research projects.
Experience
- Leading German-based gaming company, in the intellectual property and technology-related aspects of the purchase of a U.S.-based gaming technology provider of electronic gaming machines, including bingo, keno, and interactive casino promotional systems.
- The Saul Zaentz Company and its subsidiary, Middle-earth Enterprises, in the sale of the worldwide film, stage, video game, and merchandising rights in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien to Embracer Freemode Iconic Holding Inc., a subsidiary of the Swedish gaming company, Embracer Group.
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Education
- J.D., Intellectual Property Honors Concentration, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, 2019, magna cum laude
- B.A., Politics & Government; Pre-law, Ohio Wesleyan University, 2016, cum laude
Admissions
- New York