Dorisa Shahmirzai the founder of IP Law Click handles entertainment, corporate and IP matters relating to the entertainment industry in areas such as IP licensing, talent deals, corporate entity formation, as well as trademark and copyright issues.
After law school, Dorisa worked at the prominent international law firm of Clifford Chance S.L. in Barcelona, Spain in areas of entertainment and patent law where she handled patent, copyright, trademark disputes, and publishing agreements for talent and television shows. She negotiated a publishing deal for Vamos a Cocinar, a Spanish cooking show with Jose Andres.
In addition, she has negotiated on behalf of both artist and company clients, a broad range of music, film, and television deals, including recording, distribution, licensing, publishing, music producer, composer, soundtrack album, live performance, and joint venture agreements. She also handled a publishing dispute on behalf of Steve Kilbey of Church. She has served as a panel attorney for California Lawyers for the Arts and has conducted client friendly workshops on fundamental of copyrights and advised clients on issues of defamation, rights of privacy and negotiated key deal terms. She also studied at UCLA postgraduate Entertainment Studies program, where in addition to film financing, business and legal affairs in television, and music business, she studied screenwriting. She has introduced Oscar winning directors and songwriters of Westbank Story for music publishing deals to Universal Music Publishing. She has externed with Judge James L. Warren, the grandson of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren at the San Francisco Superior Court.
Memberships: Panel Attorney for the California Lawyers for the Arts: conducted workshops and collaborated with entertainment lawyers regarding legal issues producers, artists, musicians and other talents face regarding publishing agreements, copyrights, and trademarks; Grammy and Harvardwood member.
Presentations: Compulsory Licensing and Parallel Importing before the IP group at Baker & McKenzie LLP. Fall 2004, Copyright Basics, Fair Use and Music Piracy at the CLA, September 2009.
Research Assistant-Fellow to Professor Allan Crocker at Harvard University: conducted a qualitative research study of the MA 1998 mandated Newborn Genetic Screening Program. Certifications: LA County Bar Mediation Training Certificate; Entertainment Law Certificate Candidate at UCLA Extension.