Brooke-Sidney J. Harbour

Brooke-Sidney J. Harbour is a licensed attorney based in Redondo Beach, California, and the principal of The Law Offices of Brooke-Sidney J. Harbour. Her practice focuses on entertainment and publishing law, intellectual property, privacy law, technology and IP transactions, advertising and marketing law, and business law for creatives, small businesses, and startups. She also provides regulatory compliance and advisory services to the background screening industry and is a proud member of the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA). Her clients include writers, artists, photographers, digital content publishers, technology startups, software and platform companies, small businesses, and consumer reporting agencies. Her background in journalism and media inspired her special interest in protecting the content, rights, and privacy of journalists, writers, artists, and the businesses that serve them.

Brooke-Sidney advises clients across the full lifecycle of technology and IP transactions, including software licensing, SaaS and PaaS agreements, data sharing and API agreements, master services agreements, and open-source and AI licensing clearance. She counsels technology startups as outside general counsel on product development, monetization structures, platform compliance, and the privacy and regulatory frameworks (FCRA, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, and state biometric privacy laws) that shape product design from day one. She also advises brand and technology clients on advertising and marketing launches, including FTC substantiation, endorsement and disclosure rules, sweepstakes and contest law, youth marketing compliance, and pre-launch creative review.

In 2023, Brooke-Sidney served as embedded Product and Marketing Counsel at Meta, Reality Labs, supporting the AR Smartglasses product line through its commercial launch. In that role, she partnered with product, commercial, privacy, regulatory, trademark, and policy teams; reviewed and cleared advertising and marketing assets; led FTC substantiation of product claims; negotiated multimillion-dollar international marketing and distribution agreements; and drafted legal guidance playbooks for Generative AI and Augmented Reality product areas.

Prior to building her firm, Brooke-Sidney served as an Honors Attorney and Attorney-Adviser at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Office of Regional Counsel, where she advised on regulatory compliance across multiple federal environmental statutes and served as Region 9 enforcement representative. Before practicing law, she spent over a decade in marketing, media, and journalism, with roles at the Wall Street Journal, Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Virilion (formerly Mindshare Interactive), and CNBC's "The Kudlow Report." She covered the 2008 Democratic National Convention and presidential election, received the Carnegie & Knight News21 Fellowship, and remains a contributing writer for the Huffington Post.

Education 

Graduate Level

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA

• Editor-in-Chief, Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review

• President, Environmental Law Society

• Certificate in Environmental Law

• National Environmental Moot Court Team

Master of Arts (M.A.), Magna Cum Laude, Journalism (Broadcast emphasis), University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Los Angeles, CA

• Annenberg Dean's Scholar (Full Academic Scholarship)

Undergraduate Level

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cum Laude, Political Science & Women's Studies, Markets & Management Certificate (Fuqua School of Business), Duke University, Durham, NC

Duke in Oxford Scholar, U.S. & British Tort Law, Oxford University, Oxford, England

California State Bar

United States District Court for the Central District of California

Outside her legal practice, Brooke-Sidney is the founder of The Soul Story® Agency, where she works as a Book Developer/Publisher, Author Coach, Ghostwriter, and Editor. To learn more, visit TheSoulStoryAgency.com.