Usually, any professional or firm that engages in this kind of work should have presented you with a service agreement that covers these concerns....

This is a chewy area. In most cases, if you are making original works of art and selling them as art, that is, not reprinted or transposed onto...

My colleague offered a good case example. Normally, the first sale doctrine will cover you when you merely resell what was purchased. But that can...

So I recently found a different shop online selling merchandise with my artwork ?

I agree with my colleague here. We really need to dive into the details before we could offer any helpful comments. So before you respond in any...

Yes, as noted, the license speaks to the copyright interest. If you don't get permission of the celebrity you could be violating their right of...

Unless you are using other's creative works for the purposes of commenting on that work, its creator or the message of that work (what we refer to...

They can be for sure. It is considered trade dress, even though it does not contain their actual mark. Trade dress is anything that a consumer...

In general, any creative expression will be covered by copyright law automatically. Then you register the work with the US Copyright Office so to...

It depends on the person and where they lived at their time of death. You could be violating their right of privacy and publicity, which are state...

You can't place another's trademark on items that they have not endorsed. It is a trademark infringement because it suggests a false...