Key components from our commercial litigation experience transfer smoothly to legal conflicts involving copyright litigation: a comprehensive discovery and motions practice, careful selection and use of experts, and a constant focus on preparing the case for trial. Williams & Connolly LLP has represented diverse clients from news, film and television in novel copyright infringement claims including seeking to stop the unauthorized distribution of sound recording and motion pictures via Internet "file swapping" services, litigating copyright issues implicated by the re-transmission of broadcast television over cable systems and to other countries by satellite, and numerous claims of infringement of photographs and writings in periodicals and ideas and scripts for motion pictures.

The firm's counseling practice includes pre-publication review of periodical publications and television shows and in the production of motion pictures. The firm's lawyers advise and negotiate matters allocating copyright ownership in the representation of its many authors, athletes, former government officials, and television personalities. (See Business Transactions and Tax). Representative clients include Fox Television Stations, Inc., Newsweek Inc., The Washington Post, Kaplan Inc., the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Bauer Publishing and The Teaching Co.