Irvine, CA
Litigation Lawyer at Irvine, CA
Practice Areas: Litigation, Intellectual Property
On the face of it, you should not have any copyright issues. You can certainly use the name of the fictional character as a reference point, and...
It's complicated. EA does not pay gunmakers a license fee, based on the argument that they are telling a story and -- just like a novel -- have no...
It really depends on the quote and any legal analysis is going to include a number of factors -- i.e., how long the quote is, how old it is, how...
Why don't you just draw a starship and name it "Free Enterprise"? The design of the USS Enterprise (including CAD drawings) are copyrighted, as are...
Unless you are somehow contractually prohibited from re-selling, then the company is incorrect. You bought it, so you can resell it, give it away,...
So your question is, presumably, if the card was filled in and the man kept the card, and then some time later the woman accused him of rape, would...
As the other counsel have said, this is problematic. And any reference to "Wildcats fans" might get you sued by Northwestern as well. Go see a...
Hyperlinking, deep-linking and inline linking are not copyright infringement in the US, nor in Europe (per the CJEU's recent decision in Svensson...
Although you can register a copyright at any time, filing within three months of the publication date or before infringement actually occurs makes...
Generally, book titles can't be copyrighted, unless they are part of a series. And titles can't be trademarked, so that is not a concern unless (in...