Melissa Brown
Staff Attorney
NAD, BBB National Programs
Melissa Brown is an attorney with the National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs and handles false advertising cases across a wide range of industries and media. Before joining NAD, she was a Visiting Scholar in Intellectual Property at Columbia Law School and then of counsel to the IP and commercial litigation boutique Leichtman Law. Melissa is the founder of the forthcoming Visual Arts Infringement Project, designed for Columbia's Kernochan Center for Law, Media & the Arts as a copyright resource for the law and arts communities.
Prior to her work in intellectual property, Melissa was a documentary film producer and served as production counsel and/or co-producer to a number of director producers, including twice Oscar nominated director Jonathan Stack ('The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo'; 'The Farm' ) and director Gee Linton on the Director's Cut of the Lionsgate feature 'Exposed' starring Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas. She began her career as a ballerina and spent several years working in fashion and luxury brands.
Melissa speaks French fluently and holds a B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is a longstanding member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).
Prior to her work in intellectual property, Melissa was a documentary film producer and served as production counsel and/or co-producer to a number of director producers, including twice Oscar nominated director Jonathan Stack ('The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo'; 'The Farm' ) and director Gee Linton on the Director's Cut of the Lionsgate feature 'Exposed' starring Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas. She began her career as a ballerina and spent several years working in fashion and luxury brands.
Melissa speaks French fluently and holds a B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is a longstanding member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).