Sidley’s highly regarded copyright lawyers help clients navigate all aspects of copyright matters, including:
Copyright Litigation and Trials: Sidley’s award-winning copyright litigators have a proven track record of achieving exceptional outcomes for clients nationwide at the pre-litigation, trial, and appellate level. We have litigated on a variety of copyright-related matters at all stages of the process, including those involving infringement claims (direct, vicarious, and contributory), safe harbor and anti-circumvention questions under the DMCA, copyright termination assertions, fair use issues, theft of idea claims, royalty and participation disputes, and class actions.
Our skilled first-chair trial lawyers and trial teams are well positioned to achieve court victories in the most cutting-edge disputes. As the definition of victory is not one-size-fits-all, we work with clients to build a litigation strategy that serves their needs — negotiating favorable settlements, setting up for early dispositive motions, going to trial, or crafting an appellate plan.
Strategic Counseling: For decades, Sidley has advised some of the world’s largest companies on copyright issues as they relate to clients’ particular services and product offerings. As the law evolves on infringement liability, secondary liability, fair use, new technologies, web scraping, artificial intelligence, and streaming, our team quickly identifies legal risks, offers efficient and practical advice, and then develops strategies to help our clients in industries like technology, e-commerce, and entertainment evolve with the law.
Intellectual Property Transactions: Our transactional lawyers regularly counsel our clients on a variety of copyright-related issues in all types of corporate transactions, including complex mergers and acquisitions; financing transactions; joint ventures, collaborations, and partnerships; sponsorship deals; launches for new sports leagues and consumer goods; licensing, production, and distribution of motion pictures, television shows, and digital content; and securitization of sound recordings, musical compositions, and intellectual property rights for music library assets. Our lawyers understand emerging issues in copyright and are well equipped to advise our clients on these issues at every stage of each transaction.
Copyright Licensing: Clients turn to Sidley’s copyright lawyers for their tactical approaches in crafting sophisticated copyright licenses in both adversarial and non-adversarial situations. Our lawyers routinely provide thoughtful and business-oriented advice at every stage in the process, including negotiating, drafting, and enforcing such agreements.
Broad Sector Knowledge Base: Providing multidisciplinary teams fully integrated in the structures and processes of leading industries, our lawyers have decades of experience advising our diverse set of clients in the technology, entertainment, music, social media, e-commerce, publishing, advertising, gaming, and software sectors.
Reputation for Excellence: Sidley’s IP practice and copyright lawyers are consistently recognized in legal and industry publications.
