Leveraging vast experience in high-stake copyright litigation, Latham & Watkins LLP is a key port of call for tech companies across the globe seeking representation and advice. Their clients include household names within entertainment, tech, art and generative AI such as Spotify, Google and Live Nation. Drawing on experience as General Counsel at the US Copyright Office, Sy Damle heads the Washington DC team and excels in litigation cases at the intersection of copyright law and emerging technology. Andrew Gass, based in Bay Area, is a recognized authority in the tech and media industries, representing household names like OpenAI and Internet Archive in cases of infringement. In New York, Allison Levine Stillman brings substantial experience in copyright litigation and is at the forefront of challenges concentrated in technology, media and entertainment. Bay Area-based Joe Wetzel draws on experience of big-ticket music and tech copyright cases, frequently serving as lead counsel. Other notable figures include litigation specialist Washington DC’s Elana Nightingale Dawson and veteran courtroom litigator Britt Lovejoy in the San Francisco office. Kristen Sheffield-Whitehead joined the San Francisco office in September 2024.

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Témoignages

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'They are a go to team for high stakes copyright litigation.'
'Highly engaged. Great expertise. Excellent client service.'
'Elana Nightingale Dawson is the most informed and useful outside counsel I have worked with. She is the sharpest lawyer I know and has absolute command of copyright law.'
'Elana Nightingale Dawson is a strategic thinker and a problem solver. She delivers thorough and excellent work product, is a great partner, and is one of the reasons I continue to work with and recommend Latham.'

Points forts

Defending the leading generative artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, in several actions brought by rightsholders who claim that OpenAI violated the Copyright Act.

Defending Google against copyright and trademark claims brought in the Southern District of New York by four major educational publishers – Cengage, Macmillan, Elsevier, and McGraw Hill – alleging that Google promotes websites selling unauthorized and infringing copies of the plaintiffs’ works through its shopping ads.

Representing Spotify in a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York by the Mechanical Licensing Collective. The issue in this lawsuit is whether Spotify Premium is a “Bundled Subscription Offering”, as that affects how much Spotify must pay in mechanical royalties. In the first lawsuit of this kind, the MLC alleges that Premium is not a Bundled Subscription Offering and that, accordingly, Spotify is underpaying royalties.