Maura Wogan

Practice Areas

Litigation

Intellectual Property

Publishing

Art Law

Content Review & Clearance

Career

Maura J. Wogan is a partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz with over 30 years of experience in all aspects of sophisticated intellectual property law, including litigation, counseling, and pre-publication review of content in all media.

Ms. Wogan focuses on litigation of copyright, trademark, right of publicity, defamation and entertainment matters. Her clients include media companies (both traditional and online publishers), filmmakers, television producers, advertising agencies, writers, illustrators, literary agents and book packagers. She also drafts and negotiates agreements for publishing clients. She is admitted to practice in New York.

Ms. Wogan has litigated many high-profile intellectual property and entertainment cases nationwide. Representative matters include:

- Represented of Hasbro, Inc. in copyright, trademark and breach of contract claims related to motion picture rights in the Dungeons & Dragons property;

- Represented filmmaker Terrence Malick in litigation over documentary film rights;

- Represented documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger in the assertion of his journalist’s privilege in response to Chevron Corporation's efforts to obtain more than 600 hours of unused film footage from the documentary film Crude;

- Defended author and publisher of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye in copyright infringement claim brought by J.D. Salinger;

- Represented the Margaret Mitchell Estate in precedential copyright case against author and publisher of The Wind Done Gone, a claimed parody of Gone With the Wind;

- Represented Tribune Company in a lawsuit against actor Warren Beatty over film rights to the Dick Tracy character;

- Defended Tribune Entertainment Company, defeating an attempt by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation to block the broadcast of the Tribune syndicated television series Mutant X;

- Represented the heirs of Igor Stravinsky in a copyright infringement claim arising from an unauthorized biography of the composer;

- Represented John Cheever Estate in a copyright infringement and contract case arising from the unauthorized publication of Mr. Cheever’s stories; and

- Defended Penguin Books in a copyright infringement case involving Stephen King’s bestseller Desperation.

Education