His interest in the motion picture area led to positions at the Motion Picture/Television/Music Departments of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, the legal departments at United Artists Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, and the Business Affairs Department of Morgan Creek Productions. After a corporate takeover of MGM, Professor Dougherty moved to the Legal Department of Twentieth Century Fox, where he became Senior Vice-President of Production/Worldwide Acquisition Legal Affairs. Before joining the Loyola faculty, Professor Dougherty served as Assistant General Counsel for Turner Broadcasting System, responsible for Turner Pictures. He also taught Copyright and Entertainment Law as an Adjunct Professor at University of Southern California Law Center for ten years.
F. Jay Dougherty
During law school Professor Dougherty was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar,
a Staff Member of the Columbia Law Review and Editor of the Columbia
Journal of Arts & the Law. His legal career began in the
Entertainment Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison in New York, where his work included representation of
Broadway composers and authors.
Practice Areas
Education
Columbia University School of Law, J.D.
Yale College, B.A., magna cum laude
Professor, Loyola Law School
Bar Admission(s)
California
New York
Membership(s)
Member, Editorial Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
Member, Trustee and Past President, Los Angeles Copyright Society