Jesse Martin

Jesse Martin is Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Content Protection and Legal Affairs (Intermediary Programs) for the Motion Picture Association.  In this role, Jesse manages the global intermediary outreach programs focused on disrupting piracy services’ use of legitimate third-party services in their illegal operations.  Jesse works closely with attorneys internally and at the MPA member studios to develop global strategies for combating and disrupting the use of intermediaries by piracy operators, conduct outreach to intermediaries, coordinate voluntary initiatives with intermediaries, manage programs designed to disrupt the use of intermediaries by piracy operations, and develop various escalation strategies when initial voluntary initiatives are not successful.

Prior to joining the MPA, Jesse served as Associate General Counsel and Senior Director, Compliance Solutions for BSA | The Software Alliance in Washington, DC.  Among other responsibilities, she spent more than a decade developing and implementing strategies for end-user enforcement programs throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to protect member companies’ intellectual property through civil, criminal, and administrative legal motions, as well as letter-based actions, to reduce copyright infringement, facilitate compliance, and improve education.  Prior to BSA, Jesse spent five years as a litigation associate at the law firm Troutman Sanders, LLP (now Troutman Pepper).

Jesse received a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law and a B.A. in International Affairs and Spanish from Sweet Briar College.  She resides in Washington, DC with her husband and two young children.