Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton leverages the bench strength of its nationwide practice, having recently opened an office in Bay Area, in supporting tech clients in high-stakes IP disputes. Angela Dunning leads the team in Bay Area, drawing on trial experience in federal appellate courts and before the US Court of Appeals to represent blue-chips in tech such as Meta Platforms, MidJourney, AliExpress and Google in copyright disputes.
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Key clients
- Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited
- Eternix Ltd.
- Meta Platforms
- Midjourney
Work highlights
- Lead counsel defending Midjourney, a generative AI art platform, in a copyright class action with far-reaching implications for generative AI.
- Representing Meta Platforms in a set of high-profile putative class actions filed in California and New York by comedian Sarah Silverman, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Chabon, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and others asserting claims for copyright infringement, violation of the DMCA, and various state law claims directed to the training and output of Meta’s LLaMA large language model.
- Representing Google and YouTube in several copyright suits alleging direct and vicarious copyright infringement arising out of the posting of allegedly infringing videos on YouTube.
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Practice head
Angela Dunning