You should seek and retain an attorney. Yes, the amount of damages possible for copyright infringement under the facts you state can be large. This...

My peers have sufficiently answered this question above. You need to speak with an intellectual property attorney, and specifically someone with...

If you took the pictures, you own a copyright in the images and will be able to use the DMCA to have those images, if posted, removed. I am not...

Someone else is using my business name and they are providing the same services as I am...Can I stop them?

Maybe, depending on whether you have a registered trademark and if the competitor is in your local area. If you registered your business name as a...

How to prosecute a neighbor for hacking into my personal identity and making up fake spouses causing the IRS to contact me

You will need to either talk to the police or possibly the prosecuting attorney for your area. While you could pursue some civil actions...

Website and user generated content

Yes, federal law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, helps insulate you from liability, however, you must take some active steps to...

How would I protect a recipe I developed? Thanks for any advice.

Using intellectual property measures to protect recipes is difficult. Copyright law will protect the written expression of the recipe (i.e. in a...

Your competitor could file a domain dispute action before the National Arbitration Forum (referred to as a UDRP action). The remedy for this action...

Will I get sued if I use a trademark registered name, but in a different industry

Trademarks identify the source of goods or services with the goal of preventing confusion in the marketplace. Further, every registered mark is...

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Privacy policy, terms of use and lead generation website

As most of the attorneys have already commented, you have not provided enough information for us to understand your business model. Too often...