Gili Karev
Gili Karev is a litigator and transactional media attorney at Klaris. She represents publishers, production companies, news organizations, authors and authors’ estates, and individual content creators on a wide range of intellectual property, First Amendment, and media deals and disputes, particularly in the context of new technologies and AI.
Prior to law school, Gili worked in the art market as the Global Curator of Opera Gallery Group and as a specialized provenance researcher advising private collectors, law firms and art dealers with regards to provenance risks of artworks located or lost in Europe during WWII.
Gili graduated summa cum laude with a double bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Chinese from Tel Aviv University; has a law degree from City University of London Law School; and a J.D./LL.M from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, where she was also the recipient of the Michael D. Remer Award for copyright law. She is currently an active member of the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) Copyright and Literary Property Committee and the Copyright Society and a co-chair of the Numerical and Business Information Copyright sub-committee, which studies the ways in which numerical expressions of opinions are protected by copyright.
Gili was the 2001 Australian National Gymnastics Champion and served as a commander sergeant in the Israeli Air Force’s Flight Academy Combat Training Program. She was raised in Israel, Australia, and Japan, is fluent in Hebrew, and now lives between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.
Representative Matters
Litigation
- Ziff Davis v. OpenAI et al (ongoing)
- Tolkien Estate v. Polychron, (C.D. Cal) (copyright infringement claim against author of unauthorized sequel to The Lord of the Rings) (summary judgement for plaintiff, Dec. 2023)
- Lacrosse Unlimited v. US Lacrosse, (S.D.N.Y.) (representing governing body of lacrosse in the U.S. in connection with trademark claims) (ongoing)
- Abosch et al v. Scholastic, Inc., (S.D.N.Y.) (copyright and related claims by authors in connection with the dramatic work GOOSEBUMPS: The Musical) (ongoing)
- Kevin Mills v. Stitch Industries, Inc. (C.D. Cal) (copyright infringement claim against Joybird furniture)
News
- Deep Cover S4 and Ripple from Pushkin and Western Sound nominated by NYT as best podcast of the year for 2024
- Tolkien Estate Sues Over Unauthorized ‘Lord of the Rings’ Sequel, Bloomberg Law (2023)
- Judge Rules Identities of 2 Parties Who Backed Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250M Bond Can Be Revealed, CoinDesk (2023)
- Joshua Malina joins as co-host of Unorthodox, Tablet Magazine’s flagship podcast,
- Pushkin Industries and Stephen Marche Team Up for Groundbreaking AI-Crafted Meta-Mystery
- Award-Winning Former Investigative Reporter Maya Lau Launches New Podcast About Other People’s Finances