Jule Sigall

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Jule L. Sigall is a Senior Attorney in Microsoft's Legal & Corporate Affairs department, focusing on global copyright policy. Before joining Microsoft, Jule served as Associate Register for Policy & International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, where he lead the division responsible for providing domestic and international copyright policy advice to both the Legislative and Executive Branches. Most recently he was in charge of the Office's Report on Orphan Works, published in 2006, and testified on the Report before Subcommittees of the Senate and House of Representatives. On the international side, he headed the U.S. delegation to sessions of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights, which is considering a new treaty for the protection of broadcasting organizations. He is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches copyright law, and is a frequent speaker on copyright in both domestic and international conferences.

Prior to his government service, Jule practiced in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC, where he was involved in some of the leading cases involving copyright and new technology, such as Universal Music Group v. mp3.com, Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., and RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia. He also successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit for reversal in the photography copyright case of Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits, and authored several amicus briefs in copyright cases. In both his private and public sector positions he has worked on almost every major piece of copyright legislation considered in the United States in the past decade.

He is a summa cum laude graduate of Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, where he served as Note and Comment Editor on The Catholic University Law Review. He received his A.B. in Philosophy from Duke University.