Faisal Daudpota (AE)

Faisal Daudpota, is a lawyer with the experience of more than 27 years and currently works from his firm office Dubai.

He regularly advises and represents a number of social media industry clients on intellectual property matters across various jurisdictions of Middle East.

A select list of his firm’s clients have been: Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook); Instagram, WhatsApp, X (formerly Twitter); LinkedIn; Grok; SnapChat; Starlink; Tesla, Oracle, Scale AI; C3.AI; X.AI; Quora; Tesla, Baidu, Disney, etc

His firm has experience of dealing with the following:

- Collective Administration of Copyright
- Music and Sound Recording Licensing Issues
- Digital, Multimedia, Internet, and Mobile Distribution Issues
- Portfolio Management and Registration of Copyright
- Preparation of Assignments and Licenses
- Digital-piracy and Enforcement Copyright Infringement and Related Litigation
- Satellite Broadcasting Issues
- Copyright and Content Protection Policy
- Digital Rights Management
- Managing infringement risk and strategic planning for copyright protection
- Performing IP audits of copyright issues during: mergers and acquisitions, or asset valuations for investors

He is author to a number of scholarly articles on copyright and trademark laws countries in the Middle East.