Intellectual Property - Copyright Registration and Enforcement
Our Intellectual Property attorneys are experienced in copyright maintenance, licensing, and enforcement in the publishing, communications, and software fields. Our experts negotiate content license agreements, software license agreements, collaborative author agreements, agency agreements, publishing agreements, and confidentiality agreements, just to name a few.
Our attorneys have written and spoken widely about copyright and the Internet, including internet jurisdiction, contributory and vicarious liability issues, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, third-party content, website look and feel protection, and joint ownership of content. Our attorneys advise clients and speak about database protection, including new protections being considered by the United States government and the European Union.
Some recent and ongoing efforts include:
- Representing a coalition of all US commercial television stations in cases involving the annual award and allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars in copyright royalties paid under cable compulsory license, achieving a 100 percent increase in royalty share over the course of the proceedings.
- Representing a coalition of US commercial television stations in separate proceedings to set and distribute copyright royalties under satellite compulsory license provisions.
- Compiled a comprehensive set of Copyright Management Documents on behalf of a client setting up an internal copyright policing and enforcement structure.
- Negotiated software license agreements under Open Source and Free Software Foundation principles.
- Negotiated a complex master services agreement, along with software licenses, hosting, and other services agreements, on behalf of a B2B exchange client with various eBusiness IT services vendors.