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Gregory A. Piccionelli is widely regarded in the adult entertainment industry as one of the nation’s leading adult entertainment attorneys. His client list spans the spectrum of the adult entertainment industry and includes a significant portion of the world’s largest adult entertainment companies.  Mr. Piccionelli has represented adult entertainment clients in almost every type of civil litigation and transactional matter encountered by adult entertainment businesses, including patent, copyright, trademark, celebrity rights and domain name disputes, intellectual property procurement, licensing and enforcement, e-banking and online merchant account matters, spam email litigation, Federal Trade Commission actions, labor disputes and business transactions of all kinds. In 1995, he was one of the first attorneys in the world to specialize in online adult entertainment matters. As a licensed patent attorney, he was also among the first attorneys to file Internet, e-commerce and business model patents, and to procure resulting patent rights for his clients. Mr. Piccionelli, himself an inventor, has been awarded a number of patents pertaining to e-commerce and related technologies. Mr. Piccionelli is currently representing the adult industry’s principal trade organization the “Free Speech Coalition” in its challenge to Utah’s recently enacted do-not-email registry law. He is also a part of the Free Speech Coalition’s legal team challenging federal record-keeping and labeling regulations pertaining to the adult content creation and distribution. Mr. Piccionelli has been interviewed and quoted in virtually every mass medium, including radio, television, print and the Web. He was recently featured on the ABC News show Nightline regarding adult entertainment distribution via mobile telephone devices, and on Fox News regarding the industry’s lawsuit against the state of Utah. Mr. Piccionelli has authored numerous articles on a broad range of business and legal topics pertaining to adult entertainment. He is the monthly legal columnist for Xbiz World, and a legal contributor for many other adult industry publications, including AVN Online, Adult Video News and Klixx. Mr. Piccionelli has received numerous awards from the adult entertainment industry, including the 2005 Xbiz Adult Industry Advocate of the Year Award. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, including, The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Internext, Cybernet Expo, The Phoenix Forum, Erotica L.A., Webmaster Access, The Mobile Adult Content Congress, The Sex In Videogames Conference, and general and special meetings of the Free Speech Coalition and the First Amendment Lawyers Association. He is also often a special guest speaker at legal conferences and bar functions on topics pertaining to adult entertainment, digital commerce, the development of intellectual property law in the digital age, and free speech issues. Mr. Piccionelli is the co-founder of Adult Law Seminars that provide continuing legal educational seminars in the fields of Internet law and adult entertainment law. He is also the co-author of The Online Adult Entertainment Webmaster Legal Resource. |
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Piccionelli & Sarno
Westlake Village office
2801 Townsgate Road, Suite 200
Westlake Village, CA 91361
805-497-5886 Ext 2967
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