Media & Entertainment

About

Provided by Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck PC

Rothwell Figg provides clients with legal guidance leavened by tested and proven knowledge gained through representing some of the most renowned names and media brands in the world. Our lawyers have the hands-on technical knowledge and experience needed to counsel clients concerning digitization, artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning, the Internet of Things, and a host of other cutting-edge topics, as well as handling matters related to IP, privacy, cybersecurity, defamation, and First Amendment law. We assist media clients with:

• obtaining IP protection, including patents, trademarks, and copyright registrations, as well as advising on trade secret matters.
• defending against IP infringement claims. We have defended our media clients in more than 80 lawsuits alleging patent infringement. These typically involve the technical features of their industry-leading websites or their delivery mechanisms for content.
• enforcing our clients' IP.
• defending the integrity of their content. We are their advocates when others steal their content by circumventing paywalls, impersonate their reporters, scrape their websites, or attempt to interfere with their reporting.
• libel issues and providing pre-publication libel review of potentially controversial material. We counsel media entities, reporters, authors, and publishers on a wide variety of defamation-related issues.
• company-critical topics, such as privacy, the implications of data security, and the use of open-source code.