Save copies of all the documentation that govern your employment by Estee Lauder as a free-lancer. Read them all carefully. Look for provisions...

Is it trademark infringement if I use a image of a product making a statement about it ?

There would be a big difference in whether you are conveying a message about sugar content, or not. If you're peddling T-shirts simply because...

Can I use the name of an old television program as the name of a new private investigations company I am starting?

It probably wouldn't be a copyright issue unless you take some of the artistic or literary content. It might be a trademark issue. Trademarks can...

Do do I have to worry about someone stealing my brand name and original artwork?

It sounds like you are mixing discrete forms of intellectual property. A "brand" most closely fits trademark, although there are some poor...

Unless you have an agreement with them whereby they agreed to provide you some compensation, you pretty much gave it away. Indeed, what you...

They can and may sue you. I defended a shoemaker once who was repairing shoes with LV material, except the material was counterfeit. Even if...

Can I recover royalties and press charges against DH Gate for stealing my artwork and selling on products?

You speak of "your" art but then about changing the "background of the original painting". If the original was not yours you may have...

It sounds like use in lyrics should be permissible. There would likely be sufficient artistic justification inherent in good lyrics.

I want to make a book from pictures I collected for the past 30 years that I cut out of Vogue, In Style, Glamour, W, Allure, etc

The pictures are copyrighted. You could make one scrapbook with the originals, but you can't make a reproduction (printed or scanned) without...

Can you be arrested for copyright infringement if you make movie props that look like pharmaceutical pills

The answer above addresses an important query. If you are filming a movie and you fabricate look alike capsules, film the movie and then dispose...