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Trademark and Copyright Litigation

Overview

Your brand is often your most visible—and vulnerable—asset. Digital piracy, AI fakery and the Wild West of content creation can pose overwhelming, fast-moving risks to your brand, intellectual property and your business.

Manatt helps you maximize the value of your IP assets through strategic affiliations, enforcement programs, and licensing and distribution deals. We know how to defend your brand. What sets Manatt apart is our ability to combine global strategies for protecting and growing IP value with deep litigation experience, cutting-edge tech expertise and forward-looking business insight. Our work includes:

  • Antipiracy litigation against pirates of computer software, tech products, luxury goods and celebrity merchandise
  • Content ownership and work-for-hire disputes
  • Copyright and trademark disputes
  • Database infringement, computer trespass, inevitable disclosure, linking, framing, meta-tagging, spoofing and spamming
  • First Amendment disputes
  • Global brand management, including trademark strategy, clearance, prosecution and portfolio management
  • Infringement and dilution, counterfeiting, false advertising, false claims of endorsement or origin, trade libel and disparagement, domain name cybersquatting and other forms of unfair competition
  • IP audits and monetization strategies
  • IP due diligence
  • Licensing agreements and disputes arising from licensing and technology rights
  • Rights of publicity
  • Trade secret misappropriation

“The team at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP leverages the bench strength of its ten national offices to represent major music and entertainment industry clients involved in high-stakes litigation.”—Legal500 US, Copyright rankings


Manatt is a recognized copyright leader, including being named to the short list for Managing IP’s Law Firm of the Year Award for copyrights.

Our copyright infringement work covers all aspects of the Copyright Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well as high-profile copyright ownership and termination disputes. We litigate copyright infringement cases involving musical compositions, music videos, motion pictures, animation, computer software, online materials and much more.

From public domain works and fair use in AI and digital media to “work made for hire” concerns, our copyright team offers critical guidance. We also negotiate and draft complex copyright agreements and offer guidance on taxation related to IP transactions.

Our clients turn to us to protect their music, software, databases, media and digital content, and we have particularly deep experience representing leading players in tech, entertainment and consumer products.

When your trademarks—including trade names, domain names and associated logos, trade dress, and the closely connected “right of publicity”—need protection or are in jeopardy, our attorneys help you create vital strategies for protecting and enforcing your global brands.

Manatt is recognized as a leading law firm in trademarks by Managing IP, Trademark Review 1000 and World IP Review. Our trademark professionals craft and implement strategies to protect and monetize valuable brands, content and innovations.

We handle litigation, arbitration and mediation related to trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising and trade dress issues, striving to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients. 

When it comes to trade secrets, we move fast and decisively. We prosecute and defend high-stakes cases involving employee mobility, misappropriation and breach of confidentiality, using tools ranging from TROs and injunctions to complex unfair competition litigation.

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Overview

Your brand is often your most visible—and vulnerable—asset. Digital piracy, AI fakery and the Wild West of content creation can pose overwhelming, fast-moving risks to your brand, intellectual property and your business.

Manatt helps you maximize the value of your IP assets through strategic affiliations, enforcement programs, and licensing and distribution deals. We know how to defend your brand. What sets Manatt apart is our ability to combine global strategies for protecting and growing IP value with deep litigation experience, cutting-edge tech expertise and forward-looking business insight. Our work includes:

  • Antipiracy litigation against pirates of computer software, tech products, luxury goods and celebrity merchandise
  • Content ownership and work-for-hire disputes
  • Copyright and trademark disputes
  • Database infringement, computer trespass, inevitable disclosure, linking, framing, meta-tagging, spoofing and spamming
  • First Amendment disputes
  • Global brand management, including trademark strategy, clearance, prosecution and portfolio management
  • Infringement and dilution, counterfeiting, false advertising, false claims of endorsement or origin, trade libel and disparagement, domain name cybersquatting and other forms of unfair competition
  • IP audits and monetization strategies
  • IP due diligence
  • Licensing agreements and disputes arising from licensing and technology rights
  • Rights of publicity
  • Trade secret misappropriation

“The team at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP leverages the bench strength of its ten national offices to represent major music and entertainment industry clients involved in high-stakes litigation.”—Legal500 US, Copyright rankings


Manatt is a recognized copyright leader, including being named to the short list for Managing IP’s Law Firm of the Year Award for copyrights.

Our copyright infringement work covers all aspects of the Copyright Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well as high-profile copyright ownership and termination disputes. We litigate copyright infringement cases involving musical compositions, music videos, motion pictures, animation, computer software, online materials and much more.

From public domain works and fair use in AI and digital media to “work made for hire” concerns, our copyright team offers critical guidance. We also negotiate and draft complex copyright agreements and offer guidance on taxation related to IP transactions.

Our clients turn to us to protect their music, software, databases, media and digital content, and we have particularly deep experience representing leading players in tech, entertainment and consumer products.

When your trademarks—including trade names, domain names and associated logos, trade dress, and the closely connected “right of publicity”—need protection or are in jeopardy, our attorneys help you create vital strategies for protecting and enforcing your global brands.

Manatt is recognized as a leading law firm in trademarks by Managing IP, Trademark Review 1000 and World IP Review. Our trademark professionals craft and implement strategies to protect and monetize valuable brands, content and innovations.

We handle litigation, arbitration and mediation related to trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising and trade dress issues, striving to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients. 

When it comes to trade secrets, we move fast and decisively. We prosecute and defend high-stakes cases involving employee mobility, misappropriation and breach of confidentiality, using tools ranging from TROs and injunctions to complex unfair competition litigation.

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Arista Records

AT&T

Atlantic Records

BMG Rights Management GmbH

Community Bank NA

DataDirect Networks (DDN)

EMI Music Publishing

H&M

IAC/InterActiveCorp

Intuit

NBC Universal

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Ticketmaster

Warner Music