The team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP assists clients with licensing, strategy, enforcement and litigation. The firm shows capability in matters concerning the Lanham Act and false advertising claims. With notable experience in the media industry, New York based Benjamin Marks comes recommended for his experience handling federal rate court trials. Todd Larson, based in New York is well regarded as a music industry litigator handling various matters including music royalty rate disputes.
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‘Brilliant, excellent communicators and a pleasure to work with.’
‘The trademarks team is top-notch. They combine subject matter expertise with big firm capacity to handle any matter we bring to them. The team offers thoughtful, pragmatic advice. We feel well-represented anytime we have Weil support us with a legal need.’
Key clients
- Getty Images (US), Inc.
- A&E Television Networks, LLC
- Sirius XM Radio LLC and Pandora Media, LLC
- Alibaba Group
- North American Concert Promoters Association
- Rimini Street, Inc.
- Believe, S.A. and TuneCore
- American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
- Perplexity
- SerpApi LLC
- Mark Anthony Presents, Inc./Lionel Messi
Work highlights
Delivered a victory for Sirius XM Radio, securing a dismissal in a litigation filed by SoundExchange over Sirius XM’s royalty calculations.
Delivered a Ninth Circuit victory for Rimini Street in its billion-dollar copyright dispute with Oracle.
Representing Getty Images as plaintiff in a cutting-edge 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.
Practice head
Benjamin Marks
Other key lawyers
Todd Larson