Mark S. Lee is a partner at Rimon PC, and the author of Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law (Thomson Reuters, 2025). He has more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry, and has counseled or litigated disputes over the intellectual property rights of world-famous musicians, authors, actors, photographers and fictional characters.  He has, for example, litigated the copyrights, trademarks and/or rights of publicity of Nirvana, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steve Perry, Toni Basil, John Steinbeck, Tiger Woods, Jim Brown, Bryan Wilson, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra. See: Earth, Wind & Fire IP, LLC v. Substantial Music Group LLC,  720 F. Supp. 3d 1261 (S. D. Fla. 2024); Nirvana L.L.C. v. Marc Jacobs International L.L.C., 2023 WL 11821416 (C.D. Cal, December 21, 2023); Stillwater LTD v. Basilotta, 2022 WL 1486825 (9th Cir. May 11, 2022); Carter v. Atticus Corporation, 2022 WL 1038081 (S.D. Ala. February 9, 2022); Stephen Perry v. Brown, 791 Fed. Appx 643 (9th Cir. November 6, 2019); Jim Brown v. Electronic Arts, Inc., 724 F.3d 1235 (9th Cir. 2013); Love v. Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 611 F.3d 601 (9th Cir. 2010); Sheffield Enterprises, Inc. v. the Main Event, Inc., Case No CV02-03927 (C.D. Cal. January 6, 2004); ETW Corp. v. Jireh Publishing, Inc., 332 F.3d 915 (6th Cir. 2003); and Elvis Presley Enterprises v. Capece, 141 F.3d 188 (5th Cir. 1998).

He also has co-authored Expert Witnesses: Intellectual Property Cases (Thomson/West 2013); authored “Agents of Chaos: Judicial Confusion in Defining the Right of Publicity-Free Speech Interface,” Loyola Entertainment Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2003, which articulated a standard for reconciling the right of publicity and First Amendment that was adopted by the Missouri Supreme Court in Doe v. TCI Cablevision, 110 S.W. 3d 363 (Mo. 2003); and is under contract with Aspen Publishing to author the legal casebook Entertainment, Television and Digital Media Law, which will be available to law schools in the Fall of 2026.

He has taught courses on entertainment law, television and digital media law, and copyright, trademark and related rights at USC Gould School of Law.