Dan Schnapp is a corporate and commercial transactional lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising clients on high-stakes, strategic transactions at the intersection of intellectual property, technology and digital media. His practice focuses on structuring and negotiating strategic transactions that govern how IP and content assets, technology and data are developed, distributed, monetized and protected across evolving digital and interactive environments.
Dan has unique experience counseling clients across multiple industry verticals on the impact of emerging, transformative and disruptive technologies to their respective businesses, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, for which he assists clients in negotiating complex global licensing arrangements, managing data sourcing and usage rights, model training and output exploitation, preserving and enforcing IP portfolios, and the mitigation and allocation of risk across multiparty commercial frameworks.
Dan routinely counsels media companies, content owners and technology platform providers on the legal and commercial frameworks underpinning digital media businesses, including licensing, distribution, production, platform partnerships and multichannel exploitation arrangements. His work spans interactive entertainment, music, gaming, sports, film and television, advertising, and live events, and involves counterparties ranging from networks, publishers, rights management organizations, digital service providers and distributors to device manufacturers, content aggregators and online platforms.
His approach is deeply strategic and consultative, combining legal precision with a practical operational understanding of how technology can reshape value creation, while aligning robust legal structures with his client’s business objectives. By anticipating market and regulatory shifts, Dan assists clients in not only managing risk but positioning themselves as first movers and market leaders in novel digital economies.