Cydney Swofford Freeman

Cydney Swofford Freeman counsels and defends traditional, new, and disruptive content creators.  She handles both litigation and pre-broadcast counseling for clients ranging from large streaming platforms and studios to individual documentarians, producers, and journalists.  Her litigation practice focuses on First Amendment, copyright, trademark, idea-submission, defamation, right-of-publicity, and related matters.  She takes cases from complaint through trial, with particular expertise in substantial-similarity copyright actions.  In tandem with litigating, she regularly provides pre-broadcast fair use, defamation, privacy, and production counseling for a wide range of documentary, scripted, and unscripted productions.