DANIEL C. MAROTTA, Partner.

Daniel C. Marotta, Esq. is a partner in the law firm of Gabor & Marotta LLC, a commercial litigation, real estate, trademark and entertainment firm in New York City.

He is an alumnus of Fordham Law School, Evening Division, Class of '92.  Mr. Marotta earned his B.A. in Economics and English from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York.

Mr. Marotta’s real estate practice includes purchases and sales, condominium offering plans, franchising, and commercial leasing.  He prepares offering plans for new condominiums, uniform franchise offering circulars for new franchises and commercial leases for office buildings. 

As an experienced trademark attorney, Mr. Marotta registers federal trademarks for all company name brands, slogans and services.  He has experience in trademark registration and brand protection for wine labels, food and beverage companies, restaurant services, publishing companies, record labels, retail services, clothing and fashion, toy manufacturing, real estate firms, and entertainment companies.

He is also an active trial attorney with experience in commercial litigation, particularly in the areas of real estate and construction litigation, wills and estates, trademark and copyright infringement, royalty disputes, rights of publicity, serious personal injury accident cases, and civil rights cases. 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Since 2001, Mr. Marotta has been an assistant adjunct professor at NYU teaching Intellectual Property Licensing at the School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies.   He represents independent labels, distributors, producers and artists in various licensing, publishing, recording and distribution agreements. 

Mr. Marotta is a former President of the Network of Bar Leaders, a coalition of leaders of 46 bar associations in New York City and Long Island.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Richmond County Bar Association, the RCBA Judiciary Committee, the RCBA Committee For Judicial Independence, and a founder of the RCBA Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc.  The VLP provides pro bono attorneys to families facing foreclosure of their homes in Richmond County.  He is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, and former member of the 2007 Executive Committee of the Conference of Bar Leaders for the New York State Bar Association.  

He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Entertainment Arts and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and former Chair of the Music and Recording Industry Committee.  Mr. Marotta also represents various charities and New York not for profit clients in connection with his real estate and litigation practice. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Mr. Marotta devotes a substantial amount of time to not for profit real estate development and is active in his local community.  He is President of the Board of Directors of the Downtown Staten Island Council, a not for profit group consisting of business and community leaders promoting the downtown business district and waterfront of Staten Island as a cultural and historic destination attraction.  He is a former member of the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, Inc., and served as President of the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island, Inc. for four consecutive years.  Mr. Marotta remains an active board member of NHS.  Neighborhood Housing Services is a nationwide network of local development corporations which provides financing, grants, credit counseling and home buyer education courses to build stability in communities and revitalize distressed neighborhoods. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition in Albany, New York, a coalition of over 180 not-for-profit housing groups in New York State.

Mr. Marotta has lectured at the New York State Bar Association, Miami Winter Music Conference, the MAGIC fashion and apparel show in Las Vegas, and BillBoard Dance Music Summit on copyright and trademark issues.  He has also spoken on topics in real estate law, commercial leasing and mortgage lending for not for profit groups and the German American Chamber of Commerce.  He has made presentations to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Fordham Law School and the New York New Media Association on developing a career in Entertainment Law and real estate law. He has served as a Technical Editor on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Small Business, Macmillan, 2000, and the Unofficial Guide to Starting a Small Business, Macmillan, 2000.  Published articles include: Trademark Parody Since Ginger Rogers, Trademark World, May 2002; What They’ll Never Tell You About the Music Industry, NY Law Journal, Lawyers Bookshelf, February 25, 2003; "Does Trademark Grant Monopoly over Useful Product Features?" OffPrice Apparel Magazine, Fall 2004; and “The In’s and Out’s of Licensing Partnerships,”  OffPrice Apparel Magazine, Spring 2006.

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