Ellen Lubell has built her practice on a breadth of experience advising creative people and organizations. Her clients range from universities, publishers, civic-minded start-ups, and small businesses, to individual artists and academic faculty.
Over the past 25 years, Ellen's work as a health lawyer at the Boston firm of Goulston & Storrs, as Counsel for Research & Technology Transfer at UMass Medical Center, and as General Counsel at Education Development Center, has enabled her to develop a keen understanding of the legal issues and business challenges facing nonprofit and government-affiliated organizations, particularly in times of diminishing resources.
Ellen's intellectual property expertise - primarily in copyright - extends from traditional print and photographic media to digital works, multimedia and software. She advises libraries, museums and other institutional clients seeking to preserve their collections and make them more widely accessible to the public, typically through digitization and licensing agreements; and she negotiates strategic alliances for academic publishers and multimedia companies as they expand their reach across the U.S. and abroad.
Representative Engagements
Negotiated collaboration between a Harvard museum and a museum consortium to create and make publically available an archive of ancient objects from museum's collection.
Represented software developer in transaction with science foundation to design, develop, and program 3-D interactive modules and animations for digital science textbook.
Represented academic researchers in sciences, law, and business in negotiating agreements with industry, focusing on protecting and distinguishing researchers' intellectual property from property to be developed under agreements.
Structured and negotiated license and distribution agreement between major US publisher and software developer in Asia to create and sell interactive educational products for children.
Represented individual authors in negotiating publishing and license agreements and resolving disputes.
Established and advised tax-exempt nonprofits working in fields such as substance abuse prevention, community development, public access television, domestic violence prevention, and arts education.