Jacqueline C. Charlesworth

REPRESENTATIVE CASES AND PROCEEDINGS

Satisfaction Fulfilled Ltd. v. Sony Music Publishing LLC (Southern District of New York)

Represented Malcolm McLaren’s publisher and Peermusic (UK) Ltd. in copyright ownership dispute regarding sample of McLaren work in Lizzo’s hit song “About Damn Time.” (Confidential settlement)

Champlin v. Music Sales Corp. d/b/a Wise Music and Wise Music Group Ltd. (Southern District of New York)

Represented songwriter William Champlin in copyright termination litigation involving Earth, Wind & Fire’s “After the Love Has Gone.” (Confidential settlement)

Henley v. DeVore (Central District of California)

Represented Don Henley, Mike Campbell, and Danny Kortchmar in copyright infringement case arising from politician’s use of famous songs “Boys of Summer” and “All She Wants to Do Is Dance” in political ads, winning summary judgment against defendants’ fair use defense.

Planner 5D v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Northern District of California)

Represented Planner 5D in copyright and trade secret litigation alleging unauthorized acquisition and use of copyrighted three-dimensional digital works for machine learning purposes. (Confidential settlement)

Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. (Southern District of New York)

Represented music publishers in case against YouTube and its parent company Google alleging mass infringement due to posting of user-generated content containing copyrighted music. (Confidential settlement)

Eighth and Ninth Section 1201 Triennial Rulemaking Proceedings (U.S. Copyright Office)

Represented the Association of American Publishers in regulatory proceedings before the Copyright Office to determine nature and scope of exemptions to anticircumvention provisions of section 1201 of the Copyright Act.

Amicus Participation

Filed amicus briefs on behalf of various parties in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment (S. Ct.); Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com (S. Ct.); Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive (2d Cir.); Brammer v. Violent Hues Productions, LLC (4th Cir.); Dr. Seuss Enterprises, LP v. ComicMix LLC (9th Cir.); Valancourt Books, LLC v. Garland (D.C. Cir.); Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. v. Ross Intelligence Inc. (3d Cir.); Concord Music Group, Inc. et al. v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal.).

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

Current and former clients include A&E, Tracy Anderson, Association of American Publishers, David Goodloe Barrett, Mike Campbell, William Champlin, The Copyright Alliance, Don Henley, Estate of Donna Summer, Mike Judge, Danny Kortchmar, Martha (Martha and the Motels), Motion Picture Association, National Music Publishers’ Association, News/Media Alliance, Partisan Records, Peermusic, Reach Music Publishing, Salt-N-Pepa, Songwriters of North America, The Walt Disney Company, Blythe Woods.