Jonathan Bloom is counsel to Weil, Gotshal & Manges in its New York office, where he specializes in media and First Amendment, intellectual property, and art law. His practice includes counseling and litigation on behalf of news organizations, the Association of American publishers as well as individual publishers, and other clients in the areas of defamation, copyright and trademark infringement, misappropriation, and a wide range of First Amendment and related issues.
Mr. Bloom has written appellate briefs in cases involving electronic publication rights, the appropriate fault standard in New York private-figure defamation actions, libel in satire, and copyright protection for drug labeling, as well as amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court on behalf of the Association of American Publishers and other media and First Amendment organizations in support of First Amendment challenges to the Child Pornography Prevention Act, the Child Online Protection Act, and the Children's Internet Protection Act. Mr. Bloom has also represented museums, dealers, auction houses, and trade associations in several prominent cases involving disputed ownership of cultural property.
Mr. Bloom has published articles on First Amendment topics such as public forum analysis, food libel laws, celebrity publicity rights, and the regulation of assertedly dangerous speech. He has lectured and written on the subject of due diligence by art purchasers, and is author of the chapter on stolen art in the leading treatise Art Law Handbook (Aspen 2000). He is also Executive Editor of Bright Ideas, the newsletter of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Section. Mr. Bloom currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Freedom to Read Foundation, the First Amendment arm of the American Library Association
Mr. Bloom is a 1984 summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University and received an M.A. in History of Art from Yale in 1987. He is a 1991 graduate of the New York University School of Law and a member of the National Arts Club.