General Counsel | Condé Nast
Antonious Porch
General Counsel | Condé Nast
What are the projects that you are most proud of working on over the past 12 months?
Two months into my new role as general counsel, I remain excited about joining Condé as we continue to grow and evolve the world’s most iconic brands, creating new opportunities to entertain, inspire, and empower audiences globally. AI is an incredibly important area of promise for our business and industry, with authenticity more important than ever for consumers. I am proud that Condé was announced in February 2025 as part of Amazon’s new Alexa AI assistant technology. The partnership with Amazon builds on Condé Nast’s AI licensing strategy. The new technology has the capability of summarizing Condé Nast’s content for consumers while also linking back to its original source.
Based on your experiences in the past year, are there any trends in the legal or business world that you are keeping an eye on that you think other in-house lawyers should be mindful of?
The development of AI must be done responsibly. In particular, the use of publisher content, music, and other IP for both Gen AI training and output must be licensed and compensated. Further, Gen AI cannot replace journalism. It takes reporters with grit, integrity, ambition, and human creativity to develop the stories that allow free markets, free speech, and freedom itself to thrive. With that in mind, we must ensure that Gen AI and output does not violate copyright law or threaten the continued production of high-quality media content.
What are the key things you prioritise to get the most out of your team?
I prioritise a shared vision for how my team can reflect values of integrity, service, excellence and teamwork each day to support Condé Nast’s editorial and business teams, as we manage risk, grow revenues, protect IP and enhance the global stature of our amazing brands including Vogue, GQ, Pitchfork, The New Yorker and Architectural Digest.
General counsel | SoundCloud
In 2018, Antonious Porch joined Berlin-based digital company SoundCloud, which is the world’s largest music and audio platform as its general counsel. Prior to joining SoundCloud, he served as general...
Antonious Porch is the general counsel of Condé Nast. In his role as general counsel, Porch oversees all legal, business affairs, policy and compliance matters, while also serving as corporate secretary.
Porch was previously the general counsel and chief diversity officer at SoundCloud, a leading music entertainment company where he was responsible for the company’s business affairs, legal affairs and public policy strategy, and the management of its global team of legal experts in content licensing, copyright, data protection and privacy, and corporate matters. In 2020, Porch was appointed as SoundCloud’s chief diversity officer, leading efforts to ensure the company consistently delivered on an integrated diversity, equity and inclusion strategy that was globally relevant and cross-functionally aligned to business outcomes.
Porch joined SoundCloud from Shazam – a London based mobile entertainment company – where he served as general counsel. Prior to Shazam, he spent over a decade at global media company Viacom as senior vice president and deputy general counsel, Nickelodeon, and vice president, senior counsel of Technology & Kids Compliance in Viacom’s corporate office. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics, part of NBCUniversal), and the law firms of Latham & Watkins and Morrison & Foerster.
Porch holds a current board role with GLAAD and International Radio and Television Society Foundation. He speaks openly and proudly at a range of events, including for the National Bar Association, Out for Undergrad and Native Son.
A Chicago native, he is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School and also successfully completed a cable executive management program at Harvard Business School. He currently lives and works in New York City.
