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Copyrights
The firm has experience in all major areas of copyright protection and practice. We help clients secure copyright protection for original works of all kinds, from traditional print, music, art and sculpture to digital content and computer programs. We help clients take advantage of the broad spectrum of rights the copyright laws convey, especially with an eye on future commercialization of those copyrights. Our litigation team also has extensive experience in handling disputes involving copyrighted material.
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Specific services include:
- development of copyright protection strategies
- copyright searches
- preparing and negotiating agreements involving copyright, including software licenses, publication agreements and performance agreements;
- providing services associated with copyright infringement litigation
Representative Clients
Associated General Contractors
Extended Systems of Idaho, Inc.
Graphic Information Systems
Hollywood Entertainment Corporation
IHC Health Services
Knowledge Learning Corporation
Morning Light Foundation
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
XanGo, LLC
Representative Cases and Transactions
Extended Systems of Idaho, Inc.
We represented Extended Systems in a copyright infringement and breach of license action as a result of Samsung Electronics' copying of software for use with Agilent tranceivers in Samsung phones without payment of royalties, leading to a multi-million dollar settlement. We also represented Extended Systems in an arbitration between two software companies in the mobile device industry. AppForge, Inc. accused Extended Systems of copyright infringement and breach of license and sought $13 million in damages. The panel ruled in favor of Extended Systems.
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
We renegotiated NWREL's rights under a publication agreement with a major academic publishing house.
XanGo, LLC
We used provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to obtain favorable results pursuing individuals and companies who post XanGo's copyrighted material online.
Links
United States Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/
United States Copyright Act: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sup_01_17.html
World Intellectual Property Organization: http://www.wipo.int/copyright
Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
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