While this was the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, not a court, there's a pretty succinct statement in Tao Licensing, LLC v. Bender Consulting...

It will depend on the terms of the contract. Not all contracts are the same so you'll need to retain a lawyer to study this one. Then you need to...

Does fair use apply? Sure, the affirmative defenses are available if you prove them. For copyright fair use -- use of the images -- you'd need to...

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Your description raises some significant issues. While you refer to your "designs" your description appears to only describe taking someone...

If I were retained to research this for a client Id start with whether it's aiding and abetting circumventing in violation of the Digital...

Company name I thought I had invented for my novel, is actually a real company based in the Philippines?

It depends on what you write and who the company is. If truly present for artistic reasons a court will be reluctant to restrain speech. Your...

How can you sing songs for worship service without copyright infringements?

Live singing during services is exempt from copyright infringement. That's literal. That doesn't mean publishing unlicensed hymnals or recording...

It depends on what you write. If there is nothing false, no disclosure of private facts, no invasion of solitude and neither the name nor likeness...

How can I find an old Wisconsin Statute?

Pretty sure both the main legal research databases have a lot of historical data on the history of the statutes. It may be a function of how old. ...

Terms like "it is his" and "republished in their names" are too open ended to be answered. Authorship and ownership can be quite separate. You...