Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton leverages the experience of its team to represent major household names such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Amazon, and Meta in high-stakes litigation, in addition to providing comprehensive non-contentous advice on the management and expansion of their high-value international copyright portfolios. The team’s full service extends to matters of fair use, China-related copyright issues, secondary liability, joint authorship, work-for-hire agreements, and database protection. The practice is led by James Trigg, an expert in disputes involving textile prints and photographic works who operates out of the Atlanta and New York offices, and in Silicon Valley by Joe Petersen, an expert in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. In Los Angeles office, Kollin Zimmerman represents advises clients across the entertainment and consumer goods spaces on complex preliminary injunction motions. In New York, Rob Potter, who represents Sesame Workshop, brings extensive expertise to anti-counterfeiting, and counsels on NFTs.
Testimonials
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‘Joe Petersen is a superior lawyer, oral advocate, and counselor. His poise, professionalism, and legal acumen are unsurpassed in my experience.’
Key clients
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Sesame Workshop
Work highlights
- Successfully obtained dismissal of copyright litigation against client Fanatics, Inc. on grounds of lack of originality and no substantial similarity.
- Obtained default judgment and award of substantial statutory damages on behalf of Inditex (owner of the Zara fashion brand) in case involving widespread copying of product photography.