Copyright
In the converging technology and media industries, copyright is a critical asset. We have extensive experience of copyright industry issues, solutions and trends and work with our clients to develop, exploit, protect and enforce their rights.
Key areas of our expertise include:
- Software: including licensing; reverse engineering; competitive product development; anti-circumvention; and enforcement
- New media: creation and exploitation of digital content and U/PGC on internet, mobile and interactive channels
- Publishing: the creation and exploitation of content in offline and new media sectors
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- Music & video: on-line distribution strategies, P2P networks, licensing and infringement issues
- Infringement: enforcement of copyright and related rights through the courts, mediation and negotiation
- Personnel: ownership and enforcement of copyright in employee and contractor work, product and results
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Our recent experience includes:
- Advising a well-known software company on the application of the anti-circumvention rules
- Advising a global mobile phone manufacturer on copyright licensing and infringement issues
- We advised the record industry on the historic National Discography joint venture with the MCPS/ PRS Alliance, and the follow on arrangements to establish and operate CatCo the record industry’s track based database
- Advising the leading on-line DVD rental company on copyright infringement
- Advising a major German software company on decompilation and reverse-engineering rights
- Acting for global information services company on alleged infringement of software copyright
- Advising news aggregators on liability for third party content and licensing issues relating to extracts and links
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Kemp Little LLP Solicitors, Cheapside House, 138 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6BJ
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