Overview
Rose Leda Ehler is an experienced litigator, focused on high-stakes disputes for clients across the entertainment and tech industries.
She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in every stage of litigation, including bench and jury trials. She has particular expertise in copyright, trademark and defamation law.
Rose is a go-to advisor who brings deep industry knowledge and a client-centric approach to her work. Rose is known for her strategic thinking, knowing the right questions to ask, how to litigate toward the client’s preferred resolution and what works (and does not) in a courtroom.
Her commitment to delivering exceptional legal services and achieving favorable outcomes for her clients has earned her accolades and a strong reputation with clients, colleagues and competitors.
Capabilities
Industries
Experience
Entertainment Litigation
Rose has a particular expertise in copyright, trademark, defamation and entertainment contract cases, having litigated dozens of lawsuits for studios, record companies, trade associations, talent and others in the entertainment industry and resolving dozens more before litigation is filed.
Key representations include:
Netflix in:
- defending against defamation claims relating to “Inventing Anna”.
- copyright litigation involving “Stranger Things”.
- copyright and trademark litigation involving “Bridgerton”.
Disney in:
- federal trademark litigation against unauthorized infringers.
- copyright litigation involving the “Pirates of the Caribbean”.
- obtaining a preliminary injunction and successfully resolving in a copyright infringement action against Redbox.
RIAA, in obtaining a district court victory over stream-ripping service Youtube, which claimed enabling downloads unauthorized from YouTube did not violate the DMCA.
Motion Picture Association and its studio members, in numerous copyright lawsuits, including obtaining a $50 million stipulated judgment and permanent injunction against pirate streaming service, Omniverse; $40 million stipulated judgment and shutting down pirate streaming service, Crystal Clear Media; and ongoing litigation against Streaming TV Now.
Talent, in resolving breach contract and TAA claims with their former manager.
Disney, Lucasfilm, Fox, Marvel, New Line, Turner Entertainment and another studio in winning a $62.4 million jury verdict in a copyright infringement and circumvention action against VidAngel.
SoundExchange, on behalf of record companies and artists, in a Copyright Royalty Board proceeding to set statutory royalty rates for non-interactive music streaming.
Technology Litigation
Rose advises tech companies as they grow and face new challenges, including consumer lawsuits.
Key representations include:
Snap, in multidistrict litigation alleging Snapchat harms adolescents mental health.
Block, formerly Square, in multiple state court and federal consumer claims and class actions.
NFPA, a major standard-setting organization, in litigation challenging their ability to protect standards from infringement after government bodies incorporate them by reference.
More
- Woman Leader in Tech Law, The Recorder, 2025
- Band 4 for Media & Entertainment: Litigation (California), Chambers USA, 2025
- Top Intellectual Property Lawyers in California, Daily Journal, 2024, 2023
- They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40 list, Bloomberg Law, 2023
- Media & Entertainment MVP, Law360, 2020
- Winning Litigators list, National Law Journal, 2018 and a Daily Journal Top Verdict honor for her contributions to major studios’ winning litigation against VidAngel
Rose advances high-quality and flexible childcare in the Los Angeles community through serving on the board of Hope Street Friends, a childcare center in downtown LA.
Rose led a team working with the ACLU to obtain disclosable records relevant to police misconduct and civil rights litigation under the California Public Records Act.
Rose is an active member and former board member of the Los Angeles Copyright Society.
Publications
- Profiled, Legal Impact Report, based on her work for the major studios, Variety, 2018
