Your company may or may not be a tech company, but eventually almost all companies wil need hands on technology help or legal assistance in this area as well.  Since technology and new media is another firm backbone.  We have worked with multiple IT companies, healthcare IT, entertainment IT and various media companies on all facets of their business.  The founding partners have been C-level employees and part-owners in technology and media companies.  Any player in the IT and media world will tell you that good counsel in this area must understand funding at all levels, creative corporate structures, key employee agreements, and intellectual property law.  

Software licensing can be very tricky nowadays. Various statutes now govern online services and product sales and licensing agreements need to be consistent with not only those statutes but also protect the company’s intellectual property assets such as copyrights and data.  The principals of our firm have been involved with international shrink-wrap reconfigurations for major tech companies and terms of services implementation plans as well as various state law applications.

Below are some examples of the work that the lawyers within the firm have done in this area:

• Advice with regard to separation of intellectual property assets in holding companies
• Drafting of content license agreements
• Data collection agreements
• Incentive agreements for media sellers
• New media advertising sales agreements and click-through crediting
• Custom software development agreements in the media world and healthcare IT worlds as well as marketing companies
• SEO agreements
• Data sharing agreements
• Negotiation of coder agreements with stock options and incentive bonuses in media companies
• “Notice and takedown” letters for ISP’s
• First amendment defense analysis regarding prior restraint
• Fair Use Analysis
• General terms of service agreements