Selling original paintings at art fair. In addition, would like to do one giveaway of NLF team. Is that legal?

Theoretically, you could do it, as you have a right to paint NFL teams just like you have a right to create a painting of anything you can conceive...

Could you re-ask the question? I think you were cutoff mid-sentence. If your question was, can you buy the DVD and digital copy of a movie as a...

The short answer is "Yes." You could have registered your business with the Secretary of State in Wisconsin as "Giant Corporation LLC" and the...

Can I prosecute for the infringement of personal videos?

If you mean civil prosecution of a lawsuit, then you need to go see a local IP lawyer and see what he can do for you. If you mean criminal...

I want to purchase digital artwork for an album cover from a graphic artist in Russia. Do I need a lawyer to handle this?

You can always do the work yourself. It's a common business practice, and plenty of CEOs and upper echelon executives do this with virtually all...

Patent needed but money needed to get patent. .What are my rights?

Generally if you are seeking investors for patentable ideas (or for products which could constitute trade secrets, or for any other confidential...

Can a derivative work of an open source software project be patented?

There are many types of "open source" software, some of which do not allow commercial use, some of which do, and some of which require any...

It's complicated. If you are talking about movies from pre-1923 (mostly silent movies), then the answer is "Yes." You can do anything you want with...

We would like to show an oscar winning movie for educational purposes. Do we need to pay copyrights?

Generally, educational use is deemed "fair use," but the inquiry is fact-specific. For example, 9th graders watch "To Kill a Mockingbird" at school...

Is this copyright infringement?

If you have a license to create a derivative image (or images) using the original work as a template, it really depends on the terms of the...