Nancy Wolff is a partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP located in New York, New York. Ms. Wolff specializes in intellectual property law and new media law. The firm represents both media companies and individual clients. Clients include the Picture Archive Counsel of America, Inc., the trade association of stock photo libraries, as well as many other stock photo libraries, individual photographers, authors, illustrators, designers and publishers. She counsels and represents clients in copyright law, trademarks, licensing, contracts, rights of publicity and privacy and libel.
Wolff is a member and former Trustee of the Copyright Society of U.S.A., was Co-Chair of the Entertainment Law Committee-New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA) and named a rising star by NYCLA in 1999. She was on the Steering Committee for the Copyright Society U.S.A.'s FA©E initiative to encourage copyright education. She has been a frequent speaker throughout the United States and Europe on copyright, new technology and licensing for many organizations including the AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association), PACA (Picture Archive Council of America), CEPIC International Conference (Coordination of European Picture Agencies, Press and Stock), The Copyright Society, Art Buyers Club, Graphic Artists Guild, International Center of Photography, Practicing Law Institute in New York (Advanced Licensing), New York County Lawyers Association, Graphic Artist Professionals, Agricultural Publishers, Viscom, and PhotoPlus West and East. She has been an adjunct professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law teaching Mass Media and Entertainment Law.
Wolff graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland in 1978 and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management. She received her law degree from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey in 1981 where she was the Business Manager and Editor of the Rutgers Law Review.