Franklin Graves
Affiliated Faculty, School of Communication
Franklin Graves is a senior product counsel at LinkedIn, focusing on emerging issues in AI and data, as well as the founder and editor of the website and newsletter, Creator Economy Law.
In 2024, Graves was invited to participate as one of 100 creators and creator economy professionals in the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference. He presented his work-in-progress paper, “Upload Complete: An Introduction to Creator Economy Law,” at the Berkeley Law 24th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference in August 2024, with subsequent publication in the Belmont Law Journal.
Graves previously worked as a member of the technology law group at HCA Healthcare, Inc., where he provided guidance and strategic counsel for corporate technology initiatives, including artificial intelligence and the Responsible AI program. Before that, he held roles on the commercial legal team at Eventbrite, Inc., and the business and legal affairs team at Naxos Music Group.
Prior to teaching at Emerson, Graves served as an adjunct professor at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, teaching Cybersecurity and Cybercrime, and a lecturer on law with New England Law | Boston, where he taught Cyber Law.
He regularly appears across news and media outlets (IPWatchdog, Tubefilter, and Passionfruit) as a commentator and contributor with a focus of educating creators and raising awareness of all legal aspects of the creator economy. He is based in Nashville, TN.
Courses
- Legal Foundations of Creative Industries: Intellectual property Contracts and Employment Law
Academic Work
- 2025, “Upload Complete: An Introduction to Creator Economy Law,” Belmont Law Journal, 1 BELMONT L. J. 1
- 2023, “AI Disclosure Requirements Are Coming,” IPLS Proceedings, Vol. 34, Issue 2
- 2020, “Right to Not Be Forgotten (Sometimes): Celebrity Privacy Rights in a Data-Driven World,” Landslide Magazine, Volume 13, Number 2 (with Germaine Gabriel)
- 2017, “The Law of YouTubers: The Next Generation of Creators and the Legal Issues They Face,” Landslide Magazine, Volume 9, Number 5 (with Michael Lee)
- 2015, “Copyright Battles over the Internet of Things,” Landslide Magazine, at 23