What is the line between gambling and a game of skill?

I think you are speaking of licensing as regulatory licensing by Government, not licensing of IP. You need to look to the Illinois gaming...

How do I go about protecting an idea for an invention and how do I go about getting it made? What will the cost be?

For protection - see a patent attorney, although a patent may not be what you need. It may be trade secrecy, branding and moving fast may be what...

Are lectures given by a lecturer in a public house of worship copyright protected? By whom? Lecturer, house of worship, recorder

These are likely owned by the house of worship as a work for hire since in your comments you state that the lecturer was an employee. See 17 USC...

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Am I violating copyright laws by making a product with existing characters?

"Creative Freedom" is not a recognized defense to copyright or trademark infringement. You have unwittingly answered your own question when you say...

See 18 USC 506 and here are the information and contacts you seek http://www.defense.gov/trademarks/index.aspx

Do you need a lawyer to ask permission to use another companies trademark?

Yes. Not legally, of course, but which do you think the other company's lawyers are more likely to listen to? When I was in charge of licensing...

Q:"My short research on the US Copyright Office and USTPO suggests that this phrase is not copyrightable nor can it be trademarked. " A: Your...

Most likely not if these are large public companies. Instead they will normally just issue some statement to the effect there was a settlement that...

Illegal builds of my LGPL software

Contacty Microsoft about this. They have no trouble affording a lawyer and since it is their code, they will likely take care of this for you. I...

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Do we need a legal disclaimer for selling fitness gloves? To prevent us from liability.

This is not an intellectual property law question, but rather a product liability/personal injury question. Not IP but PI. A disclaimer is...