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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

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United States • Intellectual property

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Copyright

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s IP/media practice addresses pressing issues for digital music streaming companies, social media platforms and entertainment companies, drawing on the teams strength in a myriad of copyright issues, ranging from licensing disputes and negotiations to rate-setting litigation involving music PROs. Clients include Getty Images, Alibaba Group, and Sanofi. Benjamin Marks heads the practice in New York and utilizes his unique blend of trial experience, economics, IP and media industry expertise; he is a key port of call for clients with complex disputes involving music copyright royalties. Seasoned trial lawyer Todd Larson is adept in music license litigation and royalty rate-setting disputes. Randi Singer departed in 2024.
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  • ‘It is hard to find a group of attorneys that is more intelligent, diligent or knowledgeable about the subject matters they're being retained. ’

Clients clés

  • Getty Images (US), Inc.
  • A&E Television Networks, LLC
  • Sirius XM Radio LLC and Pandora Media, LLC
  • Meta Platforms (including subsidiaries Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus)
  • American International Group, Inc.
  • Alibaba Group
  • BBC Studios America Inc.
  • North American Concert Promoters Association
  • Rimini Street
  • Sanofi, S.A.
  • Greater Sum Ventures

Points forts

Representing Sirius XM and Pandora in the upcoming Webcasting VI (Web VI) proceeding before the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which will set royalty rates to be paid by non-interactive (i.e., radio-style) webcasters to Sound Exchange under a statutory license for the rights to publicly perform copyrighted sound recordings and to make ephemeral copies of those recordings during the 2026-2030 period.
Representing Getty Images as plaintiff in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Stability AI arising from Stability AI’s illegal scraping of 12 million copyrighted images and associated text captions and other metadata copied from Getty Images’ web sites and reproduced in the course of Stability AI’s training of its generative AI software model.
Representing Alibaba in several consequential litigations that seek to hold the e-commerce giant liable for the actions of third parties who allegedly sell counterfeit products on Alibaba’s various e-commerce websites.
Responsable de la pratique

Benjamin Marks

Autres avocats clés

Todd Larson

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