Steven Masur, Esq.

Senior Partner
Corporate, M&A, Intellectual Property
smasur@masurlaw.com

Steven Masur is a Senior Partner of MasurLaw. Steve has over 15 years of experience working with digital media and entertainment companies on their corporate and intellectual property transactions and day-to-day operations. He helps our clients with corporate finance and governance, M&A transactions, their most important intellectual property and business transactions, and business structuring questions.

Since 1994, Steve has helped our clients create and define a wide array of new business models and licensing schemes in music, film, video games, mobile and wireless services, licensing, advertising, publishing, media delivery, software and hardware. Steve has helped clients organize, write contracts, work out complicated legal and business problems, and pursue mergers and other strategic opportunities in complicated competitive environments.

Prior to MasurLaw, Steve was an attorney at Sabin, Bermant & Gould in New York practicing in the cable TV and corporate areas. He served such clients as Advance Publications, Conde Nast Publications, Newhouse Broadcasting Corp. and Eastern Microwave.
Steve graduated from Colby College in 1984, received his J.D. in 1993 from American University in Washington, DC and is a member of the New York State and District of Columbia bar associations. Mr. Masur serves on a variety of industry associations and corporate boards and lectures regularly on entertainment technology law and corporate strategy issues.

Steve’s Organizations:

• NYSBA TechVenture Law Committee – Chair
• NYSBA Business Law Section – Executive Committee
• NYSBA EASL (Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section)
• NYCLA eMIPS (Entertainment, Media Intellectual Property and Sports Law Section) – Founder and Former Chair
• IAEL (International Association of Entertainment Lawyers) – Executive Board, Editor of 2010 IAEL Book
• ABCNY Entertainment Law Committee
• ITAC (New York’s Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation) – Board of Directors
• NYTM (NY Technology Meetup) – Community Committee, Law and Business Liaison
• PGA NMC (Producers Guild of America, New Media Council)
• IGDA (International Game Developers Association)
• Harvestworks – Board of Directors
• MEF (Mobile Entertainment Forum), Americas – Former Board Member
• Transmission Music Conference – Advisory Board
• USSA (United States Ski and Snowboard Association)
• FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski)
• Manhattan Sailing Club – Skipper
• Ski Club Hochgebirge
• Surfrider Foundation

Steve’s Publications:

• Steven Masur et al., Collective Licensing at the ISP Level (David Mazur dep. ed., 2010)
• Steven Masur, At the ISP Level, TRANSMITNOW.COM, 2009
• Steven Masur, What’s the Point in New York’s LLC Publication Requirement? VOL. 13, NO. 1, NYSBA BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL (2009).
• Steven Masur and David Mazur, Veoh: Increased Protection for Service Providers, Or a Trapdoor?, 15 No. 5 INTELL. PROP. STRATEGIST 1 (2009).
• ANDROID IS WINDOWS, MASURLAW BLOG, /http://www.masurlaw.com/?p=1167 (June 17, 2009).
• NAILING THE BALANCE: Why We Need Strong Rights of Fair Use to Intellectual Property, MASURLAW BLOG, http://www.masurlaw.typepad.com (January 19, 2009, 3:21 PM EST).
• Good Music, Conveniently Delivered; The Value Prop Still Ain’t There: How music is broken and what to do about it, MASURLAW BLOG, http://www.masurlaw.typepad.com (January 7, 3:59 PM EST).
• Ready, Handset, Go: The Rules of Mobile Marketing, BILLBOARD, July 19, 2008, at 8.
• Steven Masur and John Maher, Mobile Phone Text Message Spam: Building A Vibrant Market For Mobile Advertising While Keeping Customers Happy, 7 Va. Sports & Ent. L.J. 41 (2007).
• Open Letter from Steven Masur, Managing Director, MasurLaw, to the New York State Assembly Against The New York Safe Games Act of 2007 (June 21, 2007) (on file with author).
• Playing to Win: Negotiating Tips for Mobile Game Development Agreements, 18 No. 2 NYSBA ENT., ARTS AND SPORTS L.J. 64 (2007).
• Confidentiality in a High–Tech World, GP SOLO, July/August 2007, at 42.
• A Good Deal More, MOBILE ENT., May 2007, at 37.
• Playing to Win: Negotiating Tips for Mobile Game Development Agreements, 24 No. 3 ABA ENT. & SPORTS LAW. J. 3, (2006.)
• Steven Masur & Ursa Chitrakar, The History and Recurring Issues of Ringtones: Lessons for the Future of Mobile Content, 24-SPG ENT. & SPORTS LAW. 1 (2006).
• Steven Masur & Ursa Chitrakar, The History and Recurring Issues of Ringtones: Lessons for the Future of Mobile Content, 5 VA. SPORTS & ENT. L.J. 149 (2006).
• Steven Masur and Bruce Strzelczyk, Funding Options for Start–Ups in Today’s Tough Economy, 8 No. 1 NYSBA NY BUS. L.J. 18 (2004).
• “Legal Aspects of the Music Industry,” Berklee College of Music (2004) online course co-written with Don Gordon, Esq., currently taught by Lauren Davis, Esq.
• “Protecting the New Tech Start-Up: A Complete Guide to Corporate Formation, Intellectual Property and Contracts.” (2003) CLE for the National Academy of Continuing Legal Education
• Michelle Almeida, Ned Glenn and Steven Masur, Recent Case May Open The Door to Media Mega-Giants, 6 No. 2 NYSBA NY BUS. L.J. 52 (2002).
• Cyber Symposium-Legal Issues of Broadcasting on the Internet: Licensing Issues On the Internet, 14 TOURO L.R. 7 (1997).