WIRELESS DATA AND MEDIA ISSUES

As consumers demand more portability and personalization, the wireless industry is rapidly embracing wireless content, wireless data and wireless commerce. These expanding markets require lawyers who understand the technology and can provide solution-oriented advice to cutting edge problems. At Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT), we have powerful teams of lawyers experienced in the wireless industry, technology, entertainment law, digital media and First Amendment issues. We can help you anticipate and solve potential legal issues, so you can focus on growing these dynamic markets.

Diverse industry expertise

Our clients range from small start-ups working on leading-edge technologies, global content providers with valuable entertainment portfolios and wireless companies with subscribers worldwide. We regularly counsel:

• Content owners (both entertainment and news)
  
  
• Content aggregators
  
  
• Wireless carriers
  
  
• Technology providers

Spectrum of services

DWT lawyers counsel clients on a wide range of core legal strategies involving licensing digital rights management, privacy and security issues, spam and messaging issues, brand management and defamation and obscenity issues facing wireless carriers. In addition, we negotiate and draft a wide range of transactions, including:

• Content distribution licenses for ring tones, wallpaper, games and other audio video and text content
  
  
• Wireless game development agreements
  
  
• SMS and MMS based sweepstakes and distribution agreements
  
  
• Agreements to embed instant messenger clients and other applications onto wireless handsets
  
  
• Streaming agreements for the provision of live and on-demand audio and video content
  
  
• Advertising and promotional agreements relating to wireless content and placement on the WAP deck
  
  
• Agreements for the development and distribution of platforms to deliver video and multimedia files over wireless handsets
  
  
• Technology and software licenses to facilitate the delivery and management of wireless content
  
  
• Agreements for w-commerce platforms and to facilitate ordering and payment systems using wireless services
  
  
• Roaming and hot-spot agreements to facilitate the seamless distribution of wireless data services

The DWT advantage

Davis Wright Tremaine is a full-service business and litigation law firm, with offices on both coasts and in Washington D.C. In collaboration with colleagues from other core DWT practice groups, we can effectively handle virtually all of our telecommunications clients’ business and legal needs, including:

• Federal and state regulatory matters
  
  
• Operational and employment issues
  
  
• Services and equipment procurement
  
  
• Real estate and environmental matters
  
  
• Corporate transactions