Our content practice is dedicated to providing sophisticated business and strategic solutions to complex problems in a highly competitive and dynamic marketplace ─ whether the problems involve the structuring of complex joint ventures for the creation and distribution of programming or other content, negotiations over the licensing of content, or litigation arising in the creative and distribution process. We are as experienced in structuring major media and content transactions as we are in solving complex regulatory, intellectual property and litigation problems arising in these fields. Our broad and deep media and content experience, and our industry understanding provides a critical value-added dimension for the legal and strategic advice and assistance we provide traditional and new media companies.
For example, Covington:
- has been involved in the structuring of a variety of entities that create and deliver content to audiences on traditional (e.g., cable) and emergent (e.g., broadband) platforms;
- is widely experienced in negotiating license agreements for the creation and distribution of content of all kinds to be used by both traditional and new media entities; and
- has appeared in a range of litigation ─ and has counseled clients in ways to avoid litigation ─ at both the trial and appellate level that involve the structuring of the media industry, the protection of content and intellectual property rights, the relationships between creation and distribution entities, and the production and distribution of all kinds of programming and related content.
Representative Matters
- We have counseled and represented a number of clients in recent years in the creation of joint ventures (using multiple platforms) for the delivery of a wide variety of television and other media content ─ from children’s television programming, to documentary material, to news and information, to traditional entertainment vehicles.
- We have represented a number of cable program services in their relationships with distribution partners, and we have counseled a number of them on various aspects of program transactions.
- We are advisers to Microsoft and other major online businesses as they move toward the development of traditional forms of media content for distribution on non-traditional platforms.
Accolades
- Ranked by Chambers USA as a leading Telecom, Broadcast, & Satellite Regulatory practice (2004-2011).
- Ranked by Chambers USA as a leading Telecom, Broadcast, & Satellite Finance practice (2011).
- Ranked by Chambers USA as a leading Media and Entertainment practice (2007 - 2011).
- Eight attorneys recognized for Telecom, Broadcast, & Satellite and Media & Entertainment in Chambers USA (2011).
- One attorney recognized for First Amendment Litigation in Chambers USA (2011).
- Recognized by Chambers Asia in their ranking of foreign law firms active in the China Technology, Media & Telecom sector (2010-2012).
- Recognized by Legal 500 US as having a leading practice in Technology, Media & Telecoms, Telecoms and Broadcast (Regulatory), and Telecoms and Broadcast (Transactional) (2011).
- Recognized by Legal 500 UK in IT & Telecoms and Media and Entertainment (2012).
- Ranked by Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Beijing - Technology, Media & Telecoms - Foreign Firms (2009-2011).
- U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers, Communications Law and Technology Law: National and Washington, DC, first tier ranking (2011)
- Sports, Media and Entertainment Team of the Year (Intellectual Property Magazine Awards, 2010)
- Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards - Shortlisted in the pan-European category "New Media/Internet" (2010).
- Recognized by Practical Law Company in EU Telecoms, Media & Technology (2011).
- Ranked by Practical Law Company as a leading Telecommunications practice (2009).
- Three attorneys recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Communications Law (2011).
- One attorney recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Administrative/Regulatory Law (2011).
- Three attorneys recognized in The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers (2012).
- One attorney recognized in The International Who's Who of Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers for Internet & e-Commerce (2011).
- One attorney recognized in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers for Regulatory Communications (2011).
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