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Westlaw Today Features Fink Article on Shifting Landscape of Internet Liability & Safe Harbor Protections
April 21, 2026 - Westlaw Today
Sarah Fink is a strategic intellectual property (IP), technology and internet attorney who partners with clients to protect and defend their business and IP. She gets to know each client’s business and provides advice and services that are specifically tailored to their needs. Sarah approaches each matter, whether a transaction, dispute or active litigation, as a high-stakes engagement, understanding that getting and implementing appropriate legal advice that respects intellectual property is necessary for the viability and profitability of clients’ businesses.
Sarah’s experience includes litigation and transactional work in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and rights of publicity, with an emphasis on applying those foundational IP disciplines to the internet, social media and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). Her internet practice encompasses privacy and online free speech issues, including managing “fake news” and defamation.
Areas of Focus
The Creator Economy
Sarah has a deep understanding of the social media and creator economies, gained from years as Head of Legal at a creator monetization company and from her experience representing creators in licensing, marketing and other monetization deals. Sarah provides sound, actionable advice to creators and negotiates deals that are favorable to and protect her clients using her knowledge of the intricacies of the social media ecosystem, copyright and trademark fair use, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown procedures, open-source content licenses, automated music fingerprinting and countless other online IP issues. She also represents creators when disputes concerning their content or contracts inevitably arise.
Online IP Management & Litigation
The internet and the world of social media are full of legal pitfalls, and people and companies that operate online may fall prey to these dangers. Sarah is experienced at managing and limiting online risks, both defensively and offensively.
Defensively, Sarah develops compliance programs to prevent and limit online infringements, including those related to a company’s own website and ones that may arise from activity elsewhere on the web. She also helps those accused of online infringements minimize or eliminate their exposure in litigation. Offensively, Sarah develops and drafts clients’ online Terms of Use and structures their deals to best protect their intellectual property.
Intellectual Property & Technology
Sarah has deep experience representing accused IP infringers in highly contentious and high-stakes “bet the company” litigation. She leverages her background as an engineer to successfully represent clients in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals and photography, communications and computer software. On the transactional side, Sarah regularly negotiates licensing deals for all forms of IP. She stays on top of technology-related legal developments in the United States and abroad to provide strategic, up-to-date counsel to her clients on their technology endeavors.
- St. John's University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2012)
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (B.S.E., 2002)
- New York
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- Hebrew – Israel
