Robert Roth

Based in New York City, Robert Roth brings to the Visual & Fine Arts Subcommittee a career combining experience in both media law and photojournalism. As a media lawyer, he advises and counsels photojournalists in various legal problems including credentialing, access and copyright. He is a member of multiple legal organizations including The Copyright Society, the New York State Bar Association Media Law Committee (for which he chairs the subcommittee on New York City news gathering), the New York City Bar Association Communications and Media Law Committee, and the French American Bar Association. He has also served as a trustee for the New York Press Photographers Association and chair of its Government Relations Committee.

As an accredited journalist, he has experience across print, internet and television for multiple platforms. At United Press International, where he also wrote new stories for United States and world media, he was a stringer (contract photographer) for UPI Newspictures. Following one assignment, he was awarded a prestigious Best of the Year citation for a photograph, which was part of UPI’s team entry in the Pulitzer Prize competition. He has had photographs published in major newspapers throughout the world including numerous times on Page One of the New York Daily News, New York Post and New York Times.

In the Spring semester of 2024, he served as a Teaching Fellow in the CopyrightX program the copyright course given by Harvard Law School in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under the direction of Professor William Fisher and Professor Ruth Okediji.