Lloyd Jan Jassin

Lloyd Jassin practices publishing, entertainment, copyright, trademark, and defamation law. Before establishing his own firm, Mr. Jassin was a trademark associate at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, one of the nation’s leading intellectual property law firms. Prior to that, he served in the law department of Viacom Enterprises, then the world’s largest independent distributor of feature films and off-network television programming. Before entering law, Mr. Jassin was Director of Publicity for Prentice Hall Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. He is co-author of The Copyright Permission & Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons) and regularly writes and lectures on issues at the intersection of creativity and the law. A graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, he's admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars. Mr. Jassin is the former chair of the Center for Independent Publishing’s executive committee, serves on Beacon Press’s advisory board, and is a member of The Authors Guild. Representative Clients: *Lauren Roberts ("Powerless Trilogy") *Debbie Macomber ("Blossom Street" and "Cedar Cove" series) *The Estate of Barry Longyear ("Enemy Mine") *The Estate of Roald Dahl *Mickey Singer ("The Surrender Experiment") *Hair Club for Men *Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt ("Imago Relationship Therapy") *Justin Hayward (Composer/Frontman, "The Moody Blues") *Publishers Weekly *Beacon Press *BenBella Books *Audio Publishers Association (APA) *Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) *Film Option Agreements with 20th Century Fox, Amazon MGM Studios, and others