Copyrights & Trademarks

As science, technology and the marketplace converge, Miles & Stockbridge lawyers are at the forefront, providing clients with proactive, strategic advice on capturing, protecting, licensing, exploiting and enforcing both traditional and cutting-edge works and products.

Our counsel to sports, media, and entertainment figures regarding film, broadcast, and live performance agreements, licensing, enforcement issues, libel and privacy, use of name and likeness, parody and fair use, often results in innovative protection strategies that not only safeguard the client’s intellectual property assets but also advance a client’s overall business strategy.

Our copyright team is experienced in the preparation and filing of U.S. copyright and computer chip mask work registration applications, and we help negotiate commercial transactions and prepare related documentation involving copyrighted works, including licensing, development, joint venture, and distribution agreements in addition to those addressing derivative works, contributions to works by independent contractors, permissions and releases, rights of privacy and publicity.