Caryn Lederer

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Professional Experience

: Current; XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio Obtained favorable result on behalf of XM Satellite Radio regarding royalty rate for copyright license covering performances of sound recordings transmitted by XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

: Current; Bertelsmann AG In re Napster, Inc. Copyright Litigation, Case No. 06-15886 (9th Cir. 2006); Case No. 06-72515 (9th Cir. 2006); MDL 1369 (MHP) (N.D. Cal. 2003) Litigation over the former Napster service; successful settlements in the single largest copyright infringement case in U.S. history

: Current; New York City Bar Association's Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives Colombia Same-Sex Partnership Rights Drafted an amicus brief for submission to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, that led to a landmark decision by the Court that same-sex couples are entitled to register their domestic partnerships and receive certain economic benefits on equal terms with opposite-sex couples.

: Current; Bertelsmann AG UMG Recording, Inc. et al. v. Bertelsmann AG et al., 2000-CV-01369 (9th Cir. 2006) Appeal of ruling that compelled production of privileged documents under the “crime-fraud exception.” Won appeal: In a significant precedent, Court clarified scope of “crime-fraud exception”; also ruled substance of documents provided no evidence of fraud.

: Current; Bertelsmann AG In re Napster, Inc. Copyright Litigation Representing Bertelsmann AG in a series of litigations brought by music publishers and record labels asserting that Bertelsmann should be liable (for tens of billions of dollars) for contributory/vicarious copyright infringement stemming from its loans extended to the Napster file-sharing service. more

: Current; Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch - Amicus Brief WGM represented Human Rights Watch (HRW), a leading international human rights organization, as an amicus curiae before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. We argued that the activities of human rights workers are so vital to the ravaged communities that they serve and the public interest generally that their relationships with their informants must be subject to an absolute privilege as long as the worker is not testifying to the guilt or innocence of the particular defendant. more

: Current; Tibetan Buddist - Asylum Case Tibetan Buddist - Asylum Case WGM represented Sangay, a Tibetan Buddhist persecuted and imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for his religious and political beliefs, in obtaining political asylum in August of 2002. Post-9/11 immigration policies and the endless bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quashed our efforts to reunite Sangay with his family. We are happy to report that Sangay's wife and three children were granted permanent visas and arrived in New York last week, more than five years since their separation. The client is obviously overwhelmingly happy and very grateful for the endless efforts of Weil Gotshal and others on his behalf.

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