Copyrights
Waller's IP team provides clients with significant experience in sophisticated copyright matters involving global rights clearance, acquisition, protection and licensing. We help our clients acquire, register, maintain, protect, license and enforce copyrights across a variety of industries and media, including software, audio recordings, musical compositions and arrangements, literary works, photographs, and paintings and other artwork.
Copyright issues have become increasingly complex with the accelerating pace of technological changes in the methods of creating, distributing and exploiting creative works. Clients look to Waller's IP team to help them navigate this evolving legal landscape to maximize opportunities and overcome significant challenges.
Associations, publishers, entertainment companies, manufacturers, nonprofit organizations, major retailers and other business entities work with Waller's IP team to protect their copyrights and licensing of third-party copyrighted works.
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Litigation and Infringement Issues
Our copyright litigation attorneys represent clients in a wide array of complex copyright matters. We have been involved in some of the most sophisticated cutting-edge cases in the courts today, including matters related to software copyrights, database protection and screen scraping, secondary liability, compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and fair use. We also have experience in entertainment-related copyright disputes in book publishing, music, film and television. Drawing upon our decades of litigation experience, we represent clients in court as well as before the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Customs Service.
Represented a major motion picture studio in a copyright infringement action involving the unauthorized use of a protected character by another filmmaker.
Assist Athlon Sports Communications, Inc. with compliance issues related to data and privacy policies and copyright agreements.
Represented a record label who was sued by a former artist in a lawsuit regarding breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, copyright violations and other violations. Waller litigated the case over the course of more than a year and was able to conclude the matter favorably for the client.
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