Brian D. Wassom litigates disputes and counsels clients concerning copyright, trademark, publicity rights, and related intellectual property and advertising issues. In particular, Brian focuses his practice on social media and other emerging forms of digital communication. He has several years’ experience assisting media companies in exercising their freedom of the press, obtaining access to information, and defending claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, and eavesdropping. Brian chairs his Firm’s Social, Mobile and Emerging Media Practice Group. He authors a popular blog on this topic, as well as the online treatises Wassom on Social Media Law and Augmented Legality®, which examines the law governing “augmented reality” technologies. Brian presents regularly to industry groups, legal education seminars, and conferences across the country on social media, augmented reality, and related topics. His next book on these topics is Augmented Reality Law, Privacy and Ethics, to be published in 2014 by Elsevier.