Delaney Berg

Delaney Berg serves clients in the intellectual property field, focusing on copyright, trademark, and emerging technologies. He distinguishes himself through a strong academic foundation and practical experience, including scholarly contributions on copyright fair use and artificial intelligence-generated works. Delaney’s background in the arts and law review experience equips him to provide insightful and precise intellectual property counsel.

Delaney gained valuable hands-on experience during an externship with Coca-Cola’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, assisting with IP strategy and legal analysis for globally recognized brands. This combination of academic rigor and practical exposure enables him to deliver thoughtful, well-reasoned advice tailored to client needs. His approach emphasizes analytical precision and a clear understanding of evolving intellectual property challenges.

Delaney brings a detailed understanding of copyright, trademark, and technology-related legal issues. His scholarly work includes a comment on copyright fair use and music sampling which advocated for improved legal frameworks for factors one and three of the test, and a brief evaluating the copyrightability of AI-generated works which both mirrored and anticipated the legal framework put forth in the U.S. Copyright Office’s January 17, 2025 report.

Delaney's Practice

Representative Matters

• Drafted legal brief on whether and when AI-authored works are copyrightable, using the same analysis later put forth by the Copyright Office in their January 17, 2025, report.
• Conducted legal research into the Vigil unreviewability doctrine for an Article published in the WashU law journal discovering numerous novel cases refuting the basis for a widely-cited Supreme Court decision.
• Conceived of, and principally developed and researched, the foundational legal arguments for a multi-million-dollar patent infringement defense, including the primary theories of invalidity, indefiniteness, and non-infringement.