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Technology & Digital Media

Attorneys in our Technology, Media and Communications practice serve as counsel to start-ups, private and public companies, and entrepreneurs on a wide range of transactional and advisory matters, including acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, strategic alliances, financing, licensing and content transactions, employment issues, e-commerce, and blogging. Clients include Internet and software companies, videogame publishers, movie and television distributors, media companies, artists and talent, biotechnology and nanotechnology ventures, and financial services firms. Our technology and media attorneys also have substantial experience in cross-border transactions in Europe and the Pacific Rim. Our IT practice has been honored in Chambers USA's - America's Leading Business Lawyers: IT & IT Outsourcing (2006). Covington was named one of the top 12 leading American law firms with privacy consultancies by Computerworld - "The Best Privacy Consultancies" (March 2006).

Recent representations include:

Major business software publishers in Internet notice and takedown efforts and related trademark and Digital Millennium Copyright Act litigation.
The National Football League in an agreement with Yahoo! for the international broadband distribution of NFL games.
Electronic Arts in various acquisitions, including a minority interest in UbiSoft.

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