Ken Norwick
Ken Norwick has been a practicing lawyer and a leading authority on intellectual property, communications, and First Amendment law for more than four decades. Throughout that period he has litigated in courts across the United States and counseled and assisted clients in the conduct of their businesses. He is the author of several books on legal and related subjects -- his most recent book is The Rights of Authors, Artists and Other Creative People: The Basic ACLU Guide to Author and Artist Rights -- and numerous newspaper and magazine articles. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School, teaching Publishing Law, and has taught and lectured widely and appeared on many radio and television programs. He is a consultant to (and former official of) the American Civil Liberties Union.

In his legal practice, he has represented such publications as Playboy Magazine, Working Woman Magazine, Men’s Fitness Magazine, The Comics Journal, and El Diario/La Prensa, the nation’s largest Hispanic newspaper; such authors as Garrison Keillor, Mitch Albom, Suzanne Farrell, Michael Ondaatje, Terry Southern, Robert Pirsig, Christopher Andersen, Janet Dailey, Caroline Bird, Lawrence Leamer, and Peter Wyden; such award-winning photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Jacques Lowe and Fred McDarrah; and such entities as WNET 13, the public television channel in New York City; Angel Records; Calvin Klein, Inc.; Ralph Lauren, Inc.; the Humane Society of the United States; Contact Press Images; Ziff-Davis Publishing Company; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; and the Book Industry Study Group. He is General Counsel to the Association of Authors' Representatives, the national organization of literary agents, which he has represented for more than twenty years.

Professional Background
Mr. Norwick is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, as well as the bars of the United States Supreme Court and numerous lower federal courts. He began his legal career in 1965 with the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, and he subsequently worked in the administration of former New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and as Law Secretary to a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. From 1970 through 1975 he was Legislative Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and since then he has served as a special counsel and consultant to both the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union. He served as a Special Professor of Law, teaching constitutional law, at Hofstra Law School, and later as Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is a member of the Authors Guild and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he has served as a member of its Judiciary and Communications Law Committees, and a member and former Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Magazine Publishers Association. From 1975 through 1996 he served as a consultant to the Freedom to Read Committee of the Association of American Publishers. He was awarded the highest evaluation, AV, by Martindale-Hubbell.

Education
Mr. Norwick received his J.D. degree in 1965 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Law Review and the founder and editor-in- chief of the Law School 's newspaper. He received his A.B. degree, cum laude, in 1962 from Syracuse University, where he majored in American Studies and was an editor and columnist for the University's daily newspaper.

Publications
Mr. Norwick is the co-author of The Rights of Authors, Artists, and Other Creative People, which was published in 1992 by Southern Illinois University Press. He is the editor and principal author of Lobbying for Freedom in the 1980s: A Grass-Roots Guide to Protecting Your Rights, published by Putnam's in 1983, and co-author of The Rights of Authors and Artists, published by Bantam Books in 1984. He is the author of Lobbying for Freedom: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting Censorship at the State Level, published by St. Martin 's Press in 1975, and the Editor of Your Legal Rights: Making the Law Work for You, which was originally published by the John Day Company in 1972 and republished in a revised edition in 1975. He is the author of a pamphlet entitled Pornography: The Issues and the Law, published by Public Affairs Pamphlets in 1972, and the co-author of a pamphlet entitled When Should Abortion be Legal?, published by Public Affairs Pamphlets in 1969.

Also assisting Mr. Norwick are several other highly experienced lawyers who are called upon on an "as needed" basis.