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The media and entertainment industry is fast-paced, making it vital for businesses to keep up with trends and a myriad of ever-changing legal issues. For more than half a century, we have been at the forefront in advising many of the true pioneers in the field, delivering comprehensive legal counsel to clients in the cable television, internet, media, and publishing sectors. As entertainment companies collaborate across multiple market segments, they seek legal services that understand the implications and applicability of regulations and legal issues.
Taft’s attorneys have a diverse skill set that matches the variety of legal issues media and entertainment clients face, such as entity formation, financing, intellectual property protection, mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, securities law, operational and governance issues, as well as employment and benefits matters.
Our multidisciplinary team is experienced in protecting and licensing intellectual property assets, complying with advertising regulations, and protecting and overcoming First Amendment rights. We also assist clients with a range of troubleshooting, risk management, litigation, and arbitration services. In a challenging industry with a range of personalities, Taft’s attorneys can be counted on to prosecute and defend clients in any dispute, should it arise.
Taft’s attorneys have advised clients on topics related to:
- Negotiating sponsorship agreements.
- Securing domain names.
- Analyzing false advertising issues.
- Establishing agreements related to technology outsourcing and protecting intellectual property.
- Launch mobile and web applications and draft related terms of use, privacy policies, and terms of service.
- Crisis management counsel.
- Representation of celebrities and celebrity estates.
- Music and literary representation.
- Rights clearing.
- Trademark counseling, registration practice, and dispute resolution.
- Print, online, radio, and television syndication agreements.
- Contract negotiation and enforcement.
- Defamation, libel, and slander disputes.
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