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 larger players like Apple, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Discovery to individual documentarians, producers, and journalists. She is fascinated by the law's influence on creativity, with a particular interest in how copyright laws apply to choreography. Her litigation practice focuses on First Amendment, copyright, trademark, idea-submission, defamation, right-of-publicity, and related matters. And she regularly provides pre-broadcast fair use, defamation, privacy, and production counseling for a wide range of documentary, scripted, and unscripted productions.

Cydney joined DWT after starting her legal career in New York, where her practice covered a broad range of First Amendment, media, and other litigation matters. She also co-chaired a pro bono program teaching the nuts and bolts of constitutional and criminal law to high school students in the Bronx.