Christopher S. Reed is a legal executive in the media and entertainment industry and currently serves as General Counsel of Fox Television Stations (FTS), where he oversees legal affairs for the company’s 29 full-power television stations across 18 U.S. markets, including 14 of the 15 largest. Before joining FTS, he served as Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property, Content Protection, and Litigation at Fox Corporation, where he led the company’s IP practice and handled various First Amendment, copyright, antitrust, and commercial litigation. He previously headed global content protection at 21st Century Fox prior to its sale to Disney in 2019.

Earlier in his career, Reed served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Register of Copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office and as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Steven J. McAuliffe of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He has also held leadership roles in the Los Angeles Copyright Society, the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law, and currently serves as a member of the California State Bar’s Committee of Bar Examiners.

A recognized authority on copyright and media law, and the business of creative industries, Reed is the author of Digital Media Law: A Practical Guide for the Media and Entertainment Industries (Routledge 2025), now in its second edition, The Unrealized Promise of the Next Great Copyright Act: U.S. Copyright Policy for the 21st Century (Edward Elgar 2019), along with numerous articles on copyright, media, and the future of legal education. He also wrote Copyright Workflow: Protecting, Managing, and Sharing Digital Images (Peachpit Press 2014), reflecting his long-standing work at the intersection of law and creativity.

In addition to his legal and academic work, Reed is a photographer and an advocate for the rights of creative professionals. He has written about the business of art and photography for Art Business Journal and several other outlets, and remains deeply engaged in issues surrounding authorship, licensing, and creative ownership in the digital age.

Reed holds a B.S. in Economics from Lehigh University and a J.D. and LL.M. in Intellectual Property from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where he now serves as Distinguished Professor of Practice, teaching copyright policy, media law, and related subjects. He has also taught at the Center for Business and Management of the Arts at Claremont Graduate University.

He is based in Los Angeles.