MPA Hires Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Fulbright Scholar as New SVP and Head of Global Litigation
Criminal Law Expert Joins MPA to Expand Global Anti-Piracy Mission
WASHINGTON – The Motion Picture Association (MPA) today announced Marissa Bostick as its new Senior Vice President and Head of Global Litigation. Bostick is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. She has also taught criminal law as a visiting law school professor in the US and abroad.
Bostick will oversee all global anti-piracy legal matters on behalf of the MPA, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), and member companies and will work across the global enterprise to develop enforcement strategies. She will also oversee all litigation brought internationally by ACE as well as litigation matters related to the MPA’s member studios. With Bostick’s hire, the MPA and ACE team in the United States has more than 40 years of U.S. Department of Justice experience between them, complementing the broad bench of experience from the MPA’s international content protection team.
She is based in Washington, DC, and reports to Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the MPA.
“Fighting piracy and upholding the rule of law is a global enterprise – and Marissa possesses the experience, expertise, skillset, knowledge, and vision to elevate and expand our legal operations worldwide,” said Temple. “With Marissa helping make our case in the courts, our ACE and MPA teams will give studios, casts, and crews another clear and strong voice working to protect content, defend copyrights, and preserve creativity everywhere we do business.”
Before joining the MPA, Bostick was Deputy Director for the Counterfeit Crimes Unit at Amazon. There she oversaw hundreds of civil actions and criminal referrals to worldwide law enforcement against infringers and their networks, and directly supported resulting criminal raids, charges, and trials. She helped lead a global team of 30 people, including attorneys, investigators, and data specialists. Earlier in her career she spent eight years with the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, where she investigated and prosecuted cases involving securities and complex financial frauds, including a $554 million investment fraud scheme. Bostick previously served as a Fulbright Scholar on international criminal law, spending two years living in Eastern Europe.
“I’m honored to join such a world-class team of content protection professionals, and I look forward to applying my previous experience in criminal infringement and civil litigation to address the global threat of digital piracy,” Bostick said. “Intellectual property rights are the backbone of the creative economy, and I am confident I can make a positive difference for content creators around the world.”
Bostick graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.
About The Motion Picture Association
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) serves as the leading voice and advocate of the motion picture, home video, and television industries. It works in every corner of the globe to advance the creative industry, protect its members’ content across all screens, defend the creative and artistic freedoms of storytellers, and support innovative distribution models that bring an expansion of viewing choices to audiences around the world. Its member studios are Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO.
About The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world’s leading coalition dedicated to protecting the legal creative market and reducing digital piracy. Driven by a comprehensive approach to addressing piracy through criminal referrals, civil litigation, and cease-and-desist operations, ACE has achieved many successful global enforcement actions against illegal streaming services and unauthorized content sources and their operators. Drawing upon the collective expertise and resources of more than 50 media and entertainment companies around the world—including sports channels and associations—and reinforced by the Motion Picture Association’s content protection operations, ACE protects the creativity and innovation that drives the global growth of core copyright and entertainment industries. The current governing board members for ACE are Amazon, Apple TV+, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and Chairman of ACE.
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