Well, the next step is to get a proper legal analysis of the situation. If the material in question has not been registered with the US Copyright...

Starting a business under low-income or high-income family member?

I appreciate your question, but a free and quite public Q&A platform is not the appropriate place to address this. Before you make any decision...

Who knows? Will your work be considered a derivative based on the fictional characters already developed by other authors? Maybe. The only way...

Can I use the name in my software that I wish to sell?

You are asking a trademark clearance question that simply cannot be answered here. Before you invest in any trademark make sure you get some...

To be clear, no one can answer this here without understanding what you are using and how you are using it. If you are merely using quotes then...

Not necessarily so long as the info to be protected is clearly articulated and the agreement is well-balanced, meaning not too over-broad nor too...

He would not need any permission to use that so long as that was considered "fair use." Given the context, it would seem that he would have a very...

Merely using a domain will not trigger the need to file a DBA especially if the underlying LLC is identified on your web pages. For example, if my...

I'd like my designs to be manufactured in Italy. Which is the proper contract to protect my designs/name/logo?

There are a couple of things going on here. First, if you are concerned about protecting the trademark and logo, then you need to have a proper...

Can a phrase be called a poem in order to be copyrighted?

You are asking a question, namely, "am I infringing" but there is no way for us to know from here. It is possible that the content you are using is...