Jacqueline Charlesworth, a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, is a litigator and transactional attorney whose practice is focused on copyright and music.  Her roster of clients includes media entities, music companies, individual songwriters and artists, software companies and trade associations.  

 

Previously, Jacqueline served as General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights of the U.S. Copyright Office, where she was responsible for interpreting the U.S. Copyright Act and oversaw a wide range of litigation and policy matters, including the Office’s participation in Supreme Court cases.  After returning to private practice, Jacqueline helped craft and secure passage of the Music Modernization Act, landmark legislation to update U.S. music licensing rules. She has lectured extensively on copyright and music law, including at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other law schools, and serves as a trustee and officer of the Los Angeles Copyright Society.

 

Jacqueline received a B.A. with honors in American Civilization from Brown University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.  At Yale, she oversaw The Yale Law Journal as an Executive Committee Editor and was a founding member of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism.  Following law school, she clerked for Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York and Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit.