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Charlip Law Group, LC brings its considerable class action experience to the enforcement of copyrights in written, audio and visual media. Innovation and technological advances have altered traditional distribution channels and vastly expanded opportunities for creative expression and financial compensation for the rights to access that copyrighted expression. Nevertheless, such technology has also fostered and enabled the theft and illegal access or copying of such protected expression and has deprived rightful copyright holders of millions of dollars of revenue which their copyright protection is designed to protect.

Laws such as the Copyright Act however are not designed to be self-enforcing. In order to protect your rights, you as the creative artist, writer, film studio, musician, etc. must seek out and police those who pirate your protected works of creative expression. Because of the pervasiveness of the piracy on the internet, lawyers who police this illegal activity must be skilled at a multiplicity of specialized procedures and substantive legal issues. Some of these issues include: internet law, internet rights of privacy, federal practice and procedure, copyright law, the Lanham Act, class action procedural law, the Class Action Fairness Act, mass torts, and personal jurisdiction.

In that respect, Charlip Law Group, LC is uniquely suited to prosecute and maintain copyright class actions on a nationwide basis. With years of experience prosecuting cases in states such as Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Washington, Charlip Law Group, LC has the geographic reach, background and depth to seek out and obtain just compensation from violators on a nationwide basis. More importantly, Charlip Law Group, LC has the multifaceted experience with filing, litigating and resolving class and mass actions necessary to successfully prosecute and recover compensation from a diverse group of potential copyright violators.

Most importantly, Charlip Law Group, LC has structured its copyright prosecution fee arrangements on a contingency fee basis. Therefore, if there is no recovery, you will owe no attorney’s ffe to Charlip Law Group, LC. Now, more than ever, it is both affordable as well as financially necessary to enforce the rights that separate your protected creative expression from being financially rewarding as opposed to “free”. Give it away for free or get paid, it’s your choice! Let Charlip Law group, LC help get you paid from everyone who downloads your creative works – not just those who choose to pay for them!