The copyright group at Fenwick & West LLP pairs the bench strength of locations across North America and Asia with the experience of its team, to provide household name corporates (including Meta, Amazon, Netflix, and OpenAI) with a comprehensive offering, from portfolio management and transactional support to representation in high-stakes infringement litigation. The practice’s active client base spans the software, tech, media, e-commerce, and publishing sectors. The group is led in San Francisco by tech transaction expert Jennifer Stanley, who advises OpenAI on copyright matters, and experienced software sector expert Laurence Pulgram, who brings over 30 years of experience. The team is supported in Silicon Valley by David Hayes, a seasoned litigator who brings expertise to software copyright infringement disputes. In New York, Mark Jansen advises tech clients involved in areas ranging from AI and blockchain to AR/VR and the gaming industry. Also in San Francisco, Jedediah Wakefield chairs the firm’s litigation practice and represents tech and life sciences companies, and counsel Tracy Randall advises on digital distribution business models.
Key clients
- Cisco Systems
- Cosmos Entity, Inc.
Work highlights
- Defending Chegg Inc. against a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Pearson Education, raising the issue of whether generation of answers to questions in textbooks whose copyright is owned by Pearson infringes the copyright in the textbook and/or in the questions themselves.
- Representing Cloudflare in a lawsuit by bridal and formal wear manufacturers that are attempting to impose intermediary liability for alleged copyright infringement by customers.