Digital Media and Entertainment

Practices

• Corporate
  20+

  lawyers with transactional experience in the digital media and entertainment industry

  Public offerings of securities for companies like Instructure, Millennial Media and Yelp

  Private placements of securities for DraftKings, KIK, Roku, Vyclone and Vox Media

  M&A for Rovi, Web.com, Yelp, Millennial Media, SnagFilms and AOL

  30%

  Represent 30% of US-based unicorns

  Unparalleled access to the largest and most influential network of strategic investors

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• Litigation
  Significant commercial litigation experience for digital media and entertainment companies, including Google, Sony, Wikimedia and StubHub

  Successfully defeated class certification in cases for eBay, Facebook and Google

  Litigated one of the first cases regarding §230 of the Communications Decency Act, a critical source of legal immunity for websites that host third-party content

  100+

  cases handled in court over the past 5 years for companies such as Hipcricket, KIT Digital and Vertis Holdings, making us one of the most active corporate restructuring and bankruptcy practices in the country

  500+

  securities cases in the last 10 years for companies like Applied Digital Solutions, Dijji, Millennial Media, Rosetta Stone and Tremor Video – one of the most active practices for the defense of issuers in shareholder litigation in the US

  Actively defending class actions across the country for the likes of Conde Nast, Hearst, Living Social and Time

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• Regulatory
  Regularly represent digital media and entertainment companies in regulatory and legislative matters before the FCC, federal and state agencies

  Counsel clients on data usage and digital privacy in online advertising negotiations and on hot-button issues around the Safe Harbor act, COPPA, DAA (and NAI, FCC)

  Counsel US and foreign companies on compliance with US laws and regulations governing the cross-border movement of goods, services and technology and affecting the way US companies conduct business overseas

  Provide regulatory compliance advice on international, federal, state and local employment and labor laws, including affirmative action, discrimination, wage and hour, health and safety, unions and collective bargaining, compensation and benefits

  Government analytics practice that provides digital media clients with federal public policy insights and regulatory strategies to make informed business decisions

  Consult on regulatory and corporate governance issues related to the Securities Exchange Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, JOBS Act, equity and other compensation matters, stockholder rights plans, stockholder proposals and proxy contests, and NASDAQ, NYSE Mkt and NYSE listing requirements

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• Intellectual Property
  Handling patent litigation defenses all over the country for the likes of eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Millennial Media and Yelp

  70+

  patent cases litigated for Facebook – winning both cases that made it to trial

  1,000+

  companies represented worldwide in all aspects of trademark, copyright and advertising matters, including some of the biggest names in digital media and entertainment such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Nintendo, TiVo and Oculus VR

  Extensive experience asserting claims and instituting UDRP actions for digital media clients, including employing actions to successfully transfer to Google nearly 800 infringing domains and obtaining a judgment for BitTorrent resulting in the transfer of 54 domain names and an award of over $2.3 million against a German cybersquatter

  Handle a wide range of rights issues with respect to the digital use of music and video, including contractual licensing, statutory webcasting licensing, IPTV distribution rights and fair use analyses

  100+

  inter partes review and covered business method review proceedings; 100+ inter partes/ex parte reexaminations for clients like Google and Facebook

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