The short answer is yes, but the longer answer is it depends. "Publishing" encompasses lots of rights and privileges. The producers will want...

I was I was filmed for a commercial as the main character for my current company I knew this commercial could be in on TV but no

You should probably speak with an entertainment lawyer. The scope of your employment may not include the right to use your name and likeness in a...

Can i use a dead trademark?

Unfortunately, it depends. A particular mark may be dead on the uspto.gov website, but there may be other relevant classes in which the mark is...

Sure. Sue them. But that isn’t the right question. The question is whether you would win. To answer that, you would have to disclose a lot more...

How can we go about getting the royalties ?

There is a lot of work to do. You need to learn what his contribution to the recordings and his contributions to the songs/publishing is. Then you...

Feels like you may have a claim against the label, it’s artist and IG. You are well advised to engage an experienced lawyer to assist. I...

In a fictional story, can a character be nicknamed a trademarked character?

Maybe. This feels to me, who is not a trademark lawyer, as being right on the line. If you use a Mark in a way which confuses the consumer as to...

How do I negotiate a publishing agreement?

There are a fair number of legal issues to consider, and of course the financial issues abound too. Advances, royalty rates, timing of payments,...

if the song of which the producer is making an arrangement is a joint work, then the creators of that work together have an undivided interest in...

The administrator/ix or executor/ix of his estate should work out with the two nephews who owned what share of the song, and a registration should...