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Mayer Brown
The copyright team at global firm Mayer Brown brings strength to advising major multinational tech companies, streamers, and licensing associations involved in high-stakes litigation. The group’s full comprehensive offering extends to matters ranging from infringement, fair use defenses, and royalty audits to licensing, the DMCA and its safe harbor for internet service providers, and copyright issues related to AI. The practice is headed by Paul Fakler, who draws extensive experience representing clients before the Copyright Royalty Board and other royalty rate setting venues, and John Mancini, who litigates new media and internet disputes at the federal and state levels, and whose active client base includes Google and Spotify. Jacob Ebin represents clients before the US Department of Justice as part of its recurring reviews of the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees. Partner William Patry joined from Google in June 2023. All the lawyers mentioned work in the New York office.
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Testimonials
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‘I have been impressed by the team's deep knowledge of the copyright sector, in particular its knowledge of the individual players in the music copyright business.'
‘John Mancini has an in-depth knowledge of what is happening in the complex US music copyright sector. ’
Key clients
- Pandora Media, LLC
- Music Choice
- Orchestra Music Licensing Association
- Sirius XM
- Spotify USA Inc.
- Revolution Beauty
Work highlights
- Representing Pandora in various copyright infringement cases.
- Representing Spotify in claims of copyright infringement over Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ and other tracks.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
John Mancini, Paul Fakler