You would have more latitude to use excerpts from the marketing books you are summarizing if you could turn them in to "critiques" or "analysis"...

As a band, can we use the photographs taken of us by a person for advertising.

You have three courses of action. Only two of them are good. 1. Ask the photographer for rights to use the photo. If the photographer says...

A large company is attempting to trademark a name that matches the name of a web app I made. What are my options?

A trademark is an intellectual property right earned by use rather than by filing. If your use precedes theirs then you have the senior rights. ...

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Is it copyright infringement to create a t-shirt design and make it your own?

Agree with Ms Koslyn's answer. "Substantial similarity" is the standard courts apply when determining infringement. If you break this down to the...

Same corporate name as my business, am i in violation if the other coporation registered their trademark?

Trademark rights are established geographically by use. If the Colorado company has used the trademark nationwide for on line sales, then it has...

What is the line between fair use and blatant infringement of a famous character?

To focus directly on your fair use question--the more "transformatitve" your new work is, the less likely it is to run afoul of the comic book...

Copyright - Reusing Magazine Cover

Assuming that your contract with the magazine publisher is as restrictive as you say, then the answer is likely that the magazine publisher is...

Team name and logo trademarked?

This sounds like a perfect case for mediation. There's not a lot of money involved, but there are a lot of emotions, so mediation may be the...

Am I infringing on a trademark, or can we co-exist?

You may be able to continue using your mark, but the devil is in the details. As you have described it, the markets for these marks does not...

I cannot find a place anywhere that sells mp3s or albums of a band call On Solid Ground. Does that give me a right to download.

Nope. Sorry. The copyrights for these songs expire some years after their author's deaths. (I won't say how many because Congress will probably...