On first glance, it seems like these would be confusingly similar. However, infringement is a mult-variable analysis that hinges on very particular...

Definitely get permission from the entities who own the rights to these characters. An intellectual property attorney can help you navigate that...

Can someone use my stage name and release an album if I myself have not released one and neither of us have it trademarked?

It would definitely still be good to trademark your stage name. Like a colleague said, you can claim your first use as 2006, and if you can provide...

You may be able to copyright the written program, but if it is primarily based on facts or a system, those things are not protected by copyright -...

There should be definitions in the contract. Depending on those, "book-length" could have a variety of meanings. Contracts can have their own...

An NDA is not necessary to send out to producers unless you're including information in addition to the play. The play will be in the Library of...

When a phrase is trademarked, is the phrase alone trademarked, or is the phrase in a certain font or with a logo trademarked?

Different companies can have the same name if there is no likelihood of confusion between the relevant consumers. Consider, e.g., Delta for...

Your copyright protects you even before the LoC gets the registration. It sounds like you have a solid claim of copyright infringement from those...

What country's copyright law applies?

That is a complicated question, because treaties dealing with IP grant "national treatment" to each party to the treaty. That means that they can't...

PPA for temporary patent? Getting started.

A provisional can be less expensive on the front end, and it can establish a priority date, but there are pitfalls if it does not cover as much as...