Senior Counsel Anti-Piracy EMEA

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Job Posting Title: Senior Counsel Anti-Piracy EMEA Req ID: 10148365 Job Description: Overall Purpose of the Role: The Antipiracy group combat s piracy of TWDC’s digital content and physical products in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This position works on substantive intellectual property legal issues, antipiracy and anti-counterfeiting strategies. Areas of Responsibility: Managing physical anti-piracy programmes, including criminal, administrative, and civil legal procedures to address counterfeiting online and on the ground as well as other misuses of IP; supervision and management of outside counsel and investigators in multiple countries; and ensuring an integrated approach to worldwide IP and enforcement issues while serving local needs. Managing online VOD and live enforcement initiatives across multiple EMEA markets, including overseeing notice and takedown programmes, supervising civil litigation and criminal prosecutions against piracy services and their infrastructure, directing the work of outside counsel, and collaborating with co-litigants. Counselling internal clients on copyright and trademark law, including the company’s enforcement strategies, and providing...