Could the professor sue Sony for "copyright abuse"?

This practice that Sony is accused of is pure fraud. They have no right to take down material that is clearly being used in the fair use realm....

Trade mark registration product/company name.

As far as protecting the product itself, you may want to explore patent protection as either design or utility claims. This is not required of...

Can I put audio of myself up online if I don't own the content/copyright?

Copyright protection covers derivative works. A translation, which is what this would be, is a derivative work and you would exposure yourself that...

My Publisher is marketing a book that identifies me as the author - I did not write the book or even know about it.

This is way too fact specific a matter to bring to a free and public Q&A platform. There could be many reasons I suppose, for example, you signed a...

When a deceased celebrity's estate has expired, is it legal to create and sell goods with their likeness on it?

You would have to explore whether a claim for violating her right to publicity and privacy could still be brought within another state that extends...

What will be the relation between the DBA's created in CA and the our main Wyoming corporation?

Where are you getting this fact that WY does not offer DBAs? While WY does not require a DBA to be filed if you operate in WY under a fictitious...

Yes, that I clearly fair use because they are specifically commenting on the Pokémon enterprise for the purpose of social / public safety...

You run the very real risk of being held accountable for trademark infringement under a secondary liability theory for contributory infringement....

We are a non profit ministry headquartered in Tucson Arizona and want to use the name the eagle's nest.

You simply can't receive any concrete trademark clearance advice over a free and quite public Q&A platform, but you are wise to recognize that you...

Can I register a trademark for clothing when I add my label to clothing I buy from China?

Most likely yes, but only because the vast majority of Chinese wholesalers expect that you will rebrand their product and even though they have...