Practice Areas & Industries: Jenner & Block LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Jenner & Block's Entertainment and New Media Practice handles cutting-edge Internet and technology issues, as well as traditional litigation, counseling and corporate work, for entertainment and new media clients around the country. When it comes to litigation, whether it is copyright and contract or first amendment and false advertising, our attorneys have handled some of the most important cases of our time. Beyond litigation, clients regularly turn to Jenner & Block's unparalleled experience to help with a broad range of issues -- from licensing and shareholder issues to acquisition and development deals.

Several of the attorneys in the Entertainment and New Media Practice have worked in the entertainment community, and thus have the background to understand the goals of their clients and the larger issues they face. Because of the depth of experience of the lawyers at Jenner & Block, a broad intersection of entertainment companies -- from the record industry to the movie industry to new technology companies -- regularly call on Jenner & Block to represent them on specific cases and transactions and to counsel them on new or difficult issues.

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More so than virtually any other firm in the country, the attorneys in Jenner & Block's Entertainment and New Media Practice have been on the forefront of litigating copyright infringement, new technology, Internet piracy, intellectual property and content protection matters. These include:

• Copyright infringement over the Internet, including peer-to-peer network (or "file-sharing") cases against businesses such as Napster, Kazaa, Grokster, MusicCity, and iMesh, and suits against individual infringers.
• Litigation against websites hosting unlicensed content in the United States and abroad.
• Litigation over the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including the enforcement of DMCA subpoenas and litigation over the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.
• Suits addressing technologies that circumvent content protection systems.
• First amendment challenges to any and all efforts to censor or regulate the creative process or works of those in the entertainment industry.
• Constitutional litigation concerning validity of state and federal legislation and regulations.
• Patent disputes at all stages.
• Challenges to software and hardware devices under the Audio Home Recording Act.
• Cases involving disputed ownership of copyrighted works.
• Disputes involving business theft or unfair competition.
• Artist and talent disputes.

The Entertainment and New Media Practice also regularly counsels clients to avoid litigation and provides strategic guidance on industry issues. Jenner & Block provides clients with a clear understanding of what issues they may face, and guidance on how to best confront them.

Clients:
A&M Records, Motown Record Co., MGM, RIAA, UMG Recordings, Inc., Arista Records, ABC, Entertainment Software Association, Electronic Arts , Harpo Inc., Harrah's Jazz Company, Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi