Contracts are enforced under the laws of a country. A contract between parties in two countries, in theory, could be tried by each of them, and...

Good points above. A "brand" isn't a legal "thing." Neither is an idea. If there's no property, there's nothing to "give". A trademark is a...

Under the 1909 Copyright Act, which was in force during the depression, publication of a work without proper copyright notice put that work in the...

Safe for what? If it's going to be submitted as a school paper, fakes are pretty obvious, there are plagiarism scanning solutions and if you...

Copyright "strike" doesn't really have meaning. If you mean "sued for copyright infringement or receive a DMCA takedown notice" then it depends on...

The dynamics are a bit complicated. If your business is closing so you'll be a full time employee getting a regular paycheck and a W-2 the employer...

Is it illegal to use part of an copyrighted image in my logo, but i changed the color and incorporated letters into the image?

Chances are the images are copyrighted. Your making a derivative work would be infringement -- making a few changes doesn't immunize it.

Not sure what you mean by a "copyright strike". For security reasons, I'm not going to click on a blind Google drive link. The use of a...

It might be. If it's a brand that's still active, it's more probably an issue than one totally abandoned. Think of the Bronco -- not actively...

It's hard to see how that could be done without a license (permission) of both the video and sound recording. Just because courts have used...