Franklin Graves is an experienced in-house counsel currently serving as Sr. Product Counsel at LinkedIn Corporation. As a member of the Product, Platform, & Partnerships team, he focuses on emerging issues in AI and data.
Franklin also runs the weekly newsletter, Creator Economy Law, on LinkedIn. In 2024, Franklin was invited to participate as one of 100 creators and creator economy professionals in the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference. He also 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. The paper has been accepted for publication and will be published in 2025.
He also spends his time as an Affiliated Faculty with Emerson College’s Business of Creative Enterprises MA program where he teaches business and IP law. He previously served as a Lecturer on Law with New England Law | Boston where he taught Cyber Law.
Franklin 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. He previously held roles on the commercial legal team at Eventbrite, Inc. and the business and legal affairs team at Naxos Music Group.
He regularly contributes to IPWatchdog, Tubefilter, and Passionfruit, as a means to educate creators and raise awareness of all legal aspects of the creator economy. He is based in Nashville, TN.
