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Kurt Wimmer is a partner concentrating in technology and media law, as well as intellectual property and data privacy.
Mr. Wimmer’s practice focuses on representing digital media, television, mobile, publication, and new technology companies. His work includes strategic content ventures, copyright protection and strategy, content liability and newsgathering advice and litigation, television and digital content licensing transactions, privacy and data protection, international law. He also represents companies and associations on public policy matters before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and international governmental entities, including representation of a 70-member media coalition seeking passage of the Free Flow of Information Act of 2010. From 2006 to 2009, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Gannett Co., Inc., and he was managing partner of Covington’s London office from 2000 to 2003.
Mr. Wimmer’s clients include Microsoft, Yahoo!, The Washington Post Company, Newsweek, National Geographic, Gannett Co., Inc. and Pearl Mobile DTV Co., LLC, as well as the National Association of Broadcasters and the Newspaper Association of America. He also has advised journalists, associations, and legislators in more than two dozen countries concerning new media laws, protection of journalists, and freedom of information. He is chair of the First Amendment Advisory Council of the Media Institute and the D.C. Bar Committee on Media Law, and is a member of the board of directors of the Media Law Resource Center and past chair of its Defense Counsel Section.
Honors and Rankings
- First Amendment Award, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2010 (with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Leslie Stahl)
- National Press Photographers Association, Joseph A. Sprague Award, June 2002
- Legal 500, First Tier, U.S. Media
- Chambers USA, Leader Designation (Media, Entertainment and Telecom)
- Best Lawyers in America, Four Areas (First Amendment, Media, Communications Law, Administrative Law)
Memberships and Affiliations
- Media Law Resource Center, Board of Directors
- Media Institute, Board of Trustees, and Chair of First Amendment Advisory Council
- ARTICLE 19 Global Campaign for Free Expression, U.S. Advisory Board
- Media Law Defence Initiative, International Advisory Board
- Citizens Media Law Project of the Berkman Center at Harvard University, Advisory Board
Publications and Speeches
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