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Charmaine D. Smith
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Charmaine D. Smith

4.4
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Terminus 200, 3333 Piedmont Road NE, Suite 2500, Atlanta, GA 30305

Entertainment, Media & Sports and Intellectual Property & Technology

About Charmaine D. Smith

Charmaine D. Smith focuses her transactional practice on the licensing of music, videos and other entertainment-related content, and the protection, maintenance, exploitation and enforcement of trademark, copyright and publicity rights. She has wide-ranging experience drafting and negotiating digital content agreements (with record labels and other content providers/licensors) on behalf of clients with digital music/media services and offerings, managing domestic and international trademark portfolios, drafting and negotiating trademark purchase/sale and license agreements, and counseling and strategizing with clients on trademark, copyright, publicity rights and entertainment-related new media issues.

Concentrations

•Transactional entertainment-related matters in the music and film industries
•Advising clients with respect to various aspects of digital media offerings
•Preparing and negotiating complex term sheets and content agreements with record companies (majors, independents and aggregators), both U.S. and international, covering audio and audiovisual content with respect to virtually every type of digital media offering, including permanent downloads, subscription offerings, streaming services, ad-supported services, 'locker' services, ringtones, ringback tones, pre-loaded devices and video games, and providing related strategic counseling
•Preparing and negotiating complex term sheets and content agreements with music publishing companies and music publishing rights organizations, including for new media products and service offerings and more traditional offerings
•Preparing and negotiating digital media agreements with motion picture studios and video content providers, including for electronic sell-through, preload distribution and streaming offerings
•Copyright counseling and guidance in the digital media space, including analysis of new developments in the copyright laws and impact on services and offerings, and analysis of complex rights licensing issues associated with new models
•Strategic counseling and drafting of complex agreements for companies offering marketing, digital media support and/or digital back-end services to musical artists and record labels
•Trademark prosecution, counseling, licensing and enforcement
•Copyright prosecution, counseling, licensing and enforcement
•Publicity rights counseling
•IP and related litigation, including trademark infringement, false advertising, copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition and patent infringement
•Due diligence review of domestic and international IP portfolios

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
•Entertainment Law - Music, 2025-2026
•'Lawyer of the Year,' Atlanta, 2026
•Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2017-2026
•Copyright Law, 2023
•Listed, Billboard magazine, 'Top Music Lawyers,' 2024-2025
•Listed, Thomson Reuters, 'Stand-Out Lawyers,' 2024-2025
•Listed, Billboard, 'Women in Music List,' 2024
•Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers 'Best Law Firms,' 'Law Firm of the Year' in Information Technology Law, 2024
•Shortlisted, Euromoney, Americas Women in Business Law Awards, 'Best in Media & Entertainment,' 2023-2024
•Team Member, a Law360 “Media & Entertainment Practice Group of the Year,” 2022
•Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Georgia Super Lawyers, 'Rising Star,' 2006-2015
•Listed, Georgia Trend magazine, 'Legal Elite,' 2012-2013
•Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers 'Law Firm of the Year' in Entertainment Law - Music, 2011-2012
•Selected, Fulton County Daily Report, 'Atlanta Attorneys on the Rise,' August 2011
•Recognized, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 'Dealmakers,' April 16, 2009

 

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Areas of Law

  • Other 2
    • Entertainment, Media & Sports
    • Intellectual Property & Technology

Practice Details

  • Payment Information
    Accepted Credit Cards
    American Express
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Shareholder
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Matters: Advised, represented
    negotiated on behalf of various companies in connection with obtaining the necessary music rights to launch
    maintain their online, mobile
    /or other new media products
    services.
    Counseled
    provided strategic guidance on music rights issues to online music services
    members of the wireless telecommunications industry.
    Served as primary trademark counsel, including management of
    strategic counseling related to, domestic
    international trademark portfolios for various musical artists, other clients in the music industry
    clients in other industries.
    Served as lead IP counsel in multimillion-dollar sale of trademark portfolio
    license back of trademark rights.
    Served as lead counsel in drafting
    negotiating license agreements,
    overseeing the clearance process, with record labels, music publishers
    performance rights organizations for use of thous
    s of songs in new music museum.
  • Additional Links
    http://www.gtlaw.com/People/Charmaine-D-Smith

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    2000, Georgia
    Memberships

    Professional & Community Involvement

    •State Bar of Georgia, Section of Entertainment and Sports Law, 2016-2019
    •Member at Large: Entertainment, 2018-2019
    •Secretary, 2016-2017
    •Member, American Bar Association, Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries
    •Member, Georgia Bar Association
    •Member, Atlanta Bar Association
    •Member, Morningside-Ansley Friends of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    Georgetown University Law Center
    J.D.
    cum laude

    Georgetown University Law Center
    J.D.
    2000 Notes and Comments Editor

    Georgetown University Law Center
    J.D.
    The Tax Lawyer
    Other Education
    Princeton University
    Class of 1997
    B.A.
    summa cum laude

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Terminus 200, Terminus 200, 3333 Piedmont Road NE, Suite 2500Atlanta, GA 30305U.S.A.

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    Charmaine D. Smith was admitted in 2000 to the State of Georgia.
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    Charmaine D. Smith attended Georgetown University Law Center.
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    Greenberg Traurig, LLP was established in 1967.

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