Brooke Oliver and Lauren Curry formed The Oliver Licensing Center (OLC),
a new division of the Brooke Oliver Law Group, P.C., in January 2005.
The licensing center was created to help artists promote and license
their creative works. Our focus is urban, hip-hop, and graffiti art.
We also represent internationally recognized muralists, Latino/a, and
fine artists.
The licensing center is a natural addition to the Brooke Oliver Law
Group, P.C., which represents over two hundred artists including a variety
of urban, street, and graffiti artists, as well as muralists and fine
artists. Because of the Law Group’s reputation, we already have
relationships with several top urban artists and have the potential
to generate licensing opportunities from art communities that until
now have remained underground.
Our mission is to create licensing prospects for these talented and
increasingly popular artists and bring their work to a wider audience.
We feel that our reputation within this community puts us in an optimum
position to work with these artists and to get their artwork beyond
the street and even beyond the gallery into the larger marketplace.
We work with a variety of unique and multi-talented artists and are
able to negotiate and work with these artists because we believe in
the integrity of their art and respecting its proper place in the marketplace.
Brooke
Oliver
Brooke Oliver is the founding attorney of Brooke Oliver Law Group, P.C.,
a nationally recognized art and entertainment law firm. Brooke has extensive
licensing experience and has negotiated and drafted commercial, editorial,
and new media licensing agreements for some of today’s most successful
and prominent artists and photographers. Brooke has successfully registered
hundreds of copyright and trademarks, domestically and internationally,
and has been lauded as a “folk hero” of copyright law. Before
law school, Brooke spent many years in sales and marketing, as national
marketing director for a cable TV multiple system operator and later
as national sales manager for a commercial equipment leasing firm. Brooke’s
extensive marketing and sales experience combined with her national
reputation as one of the leading art lawyers lend depth, skill, and
integrity to her licensing practice. Her law firm clients include Corbis,
Princess Cruises, the Jerry Garcia Estate LLC, and many artists. For
more information about Brooke’s legal practice please visit the
Brooke Oliver Law Group website at
http://www.artemama.com.
Lauren Curry
Lauren Curry is the Director of Oliver Licensing Center. Lauren earned
her law degree from U.C. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco,
California. While at Hastings, Lauren developed her knowledge of art
law and issues affecting artists and art organizations as a Law Clerk
for the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, working with the Departments
of Arts and Culture.
Lauren also has experience in artist management and has negotiated with
international companies, in the U.S. and Japan, including Levi's USA,
Adidas and Sakura International, on an artist's behalf. Additionally,
Lauren has an incredible sensibility for fine art and for interweaving
art and business in an organic way, combining her knowledge and appreciation
for the arts with her legal, professional, and business skills.
Education
J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco
2003.
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English, 1997.
