Young Basile has an experienced team of copyright practitioners who have helped hundreds of clients protect content and software through copyright.

The firm represents clients in preparing and filing applications to register copyrights with the US Copyright Office. The firm also advise clients in connection with administrative proceedings such as Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels.

The emergence of the digital technology, including the Internet and e-commerce, has raised significant legal issues and challenges for owners and users of content and software. Our attorneys have been working with these cutting-edge issues since the advent of the commercial World Wide Web and have done ground-breaking work in this area. We offer our clients practical, sophisticated advice on:

• Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect content
• Digital transmission of sound recordings
• Fair use of copyrights in an online environment
• Licensing content for distribution online
• Linking, framing and metatags
• Protecting databases in digital media

Young Basile provides aggressive but cost-effective litigation services for defending and enforcing copyrights and DMCA claims.

Our attorneys routinely handle software and content licensing.

Attorneys now resident at the firm have handled the following matters in recent years:

• Advised major video game producer on strategies to combat piracy.
• Negotiate licenses for online distribution of content.
• Prepare clean room development procedures for client.
• Analyze client's ability to copy competitors data structures and formats.
• Prepare license agreements for software vendors.
• Advised online service providers on compliance with DMCA.
• Defended retailer from copyright infringement claim.