Franklin Graves

Senior Counsel - Product & Data (AI) LinkedIn

Franklin Graves is an experienced in-house counsel currently serving as Sr. Product Counsel at LinkedIn Corporation. As a member of the Product & Data team, he focuses on emerging issues in AI and data. Franklin is also the Founder & Editor of the website and newsletter, Creator Economy Law. 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 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 (1 BELMONT L. J. 1 (2025)). He is. 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 an adjunct professor at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, teaching Prof. Mailyn Fidler's Cybersecurity and Cybercrime course in Fall 2025, and a Lecturer on Law with New England Law | Boston where he taught Cyber Law in 2024 and 2025. 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 appears across news and media outlets as a commentator and contributor (IPWatchdog, Tubefilter, and Passionfruit) with a focus of educating creators and raising awareness of all legal aspects of the creator economy. He is based in Nashville, TN.