Richard A. Altman

Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, 1977 | J.D. | University of Miami, 1966 | B.S. | Major: Electrical Engineering | Graduate work in Physics and Mathematics

New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2015-2016 | Profiled in American Lawyer, August 1994

["Artists’ moral rights: Controversy and the Visual Artists Rights Act, 48 SMU L.Rev. 639 (1995).", "The Work for Hire Doctrine and the Second Circuit’s Decision in Carter v. Helmsley-Spear, 7 DePaul-LCA J. Arts & Ent. L. 103 (1996)", "The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990: American Artists Burned Again, 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 373 (1995)", "Copyright, Visual Artists Rights Act, Second Circuit Holds Sculpture to be Unprotected “Work for Hire,” 109 Harv. L. Rev. 2110 (1996)", "Contributing writer for Plenty, an environmental magazine. Author of “Dick Nixon–Tree Hugger?” (March 2005) and “Should Rivers and Trees be Able to Sue?”"]

Member, Panel of Neutrals, World Intellectual Property Organization | Member, Mediation Panel of Commercial Division of Supreme Court, New York County | Member, Union Internationale des Avocats, Paris | New York State Bar Association | Municipal Art Society | U.S. Copyright Office | Chair, Subcommittee on the Visual Artists Rights Act, New York City Bar Association | Member, Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association | Member, New York City Bar Association | Participated on panels at the U.S. Copyright Office, Municipal Art Society and New York State Bar Association | Member of New York City Bar Association (member, Art Law Committee)

Speaker, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, “For Real? Legal and Economic Perils of Art Authentication, - 2011 | Speaker, Union Internationale des Avocats in Bilbao, Spain | Moderator of panel on Alternate Dispute Resolution in Fair Use and Copyright Litigation, New York City Bar Association, - 2006