Andy Gass is an acclaimed antitrust and IP lawyer who represents technology companies in their highest-stakes disputes.

Andy is the architect of the firm’s decorated copyright practice and teaches a course titled “Copyright, Competition & Technology” at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He serves a wide range of clients, from early-stage startups to the largest companies in the world, as a trusted counselor and lead litigator. In that capacity, Andy has shaped the highest-profile, most cutting-edge issues in digital copyright law in the past decade, whether by resolving a matter behind the scenes, advocating in regulatory proceedings, or trying a case in US federal court. Leading legal and general publications, including the Financial Times, Billboard, and Chambers USA, have recognized Andy's work for its pragmatism, efficiency, and quality.

Andy has served as lead trial and appellate counsel in copyright cases, antitrust cases, and other matters across a range of industries, from the AI space to the music industry and beyond.

His recent, publicly known experience includes representing:

  • OpenAI in ongoing litigation against the New York Times and others challenging the training and operation of ChatGPT as large-scale copyright infringement
  • Anthropic in litigation brought by music publishers and book authors over the development of Claude
  • Live Nation in all of its highest-stakes antitrust litigation in the past decade
  • The music generative AI companies Suno and Udio in lawsuits brought by all of the major record labels seeking to shut down the product category
  • Perplexity in litigation over the core operation of its web search tools
  • ElevenLabs in litigation over a range of IP and other matters
  • Apple in a series of lawsuits implicating AI, software, and other mission-critical business issues
  • Meta in litigation over the development of its AI tools
  • Spotify in the industry-wide music rights rate-setting proceedings known as Phonorecords III, IV and V
  • Amazon in a variety of copyright and other cases
  • Shopify in a suit challenging its eligibility for DMCA immunity
  • Roblox in litigation related to copyright, antitrust, privacy, and other issues
  • The Andy Warhol Foundation in its Supreme Court case about whether Warhol’s iconic depiction of the musician Prince was a fair use of the source photograph from which it derived
  • Internet Archive in a copyright infringement lawsuit over the “Great 78” project
  • The Radio Music License Committee in litigation against all four major US performing rights organizations
  • Creative Commons in litigation over the interpretation of its copyright licenses

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
    Order of the Coif
  • BA, Yale University, 2001
    magna cum laude