At the hearing, find out why the motion was denied. If the denial is based upon a technicality that you can fix (e.g., service was improper, the...

May I use parts of a brief written by an attorney in my own brief for a traffic court?

Lawyers adapt their own briefs from other briefs and case law. You can use the ideas of the briefs, and rules of law. Use your own expression, and...

Suitable state for Small Real estate LLC with low fees,taxes , business friendly laws and owner protection

First, you will need to register (and pay franchise fees and taxes) with any state in which the LLC is doing business, either as a domestic (i.e....

Can I take a copyrighted live action film/tv character and turn them into a modified 2D comic book character?

If you do this for fun, at home, then no one will care. There are no copyright SWAT teams bashing in doors. However, if you were to "publish" such...

What do I need to do to protect the idea and anything else related to my site Animatedbuzz.com?

While the content of your site can be protected under copyright, and the tradename and marks can be protected under trademark law, "ideas" cannot...

This rests on how you use him. The test is whether you fairly used him, and is naturally called the "Fair Use" test. To over-simplify, the question...

If a registered document with the Library of Congress has copied portions from another document, Is that infringement?

Someone will need to compare your work to the other producers' work to see if there are too many similarities. Word for word copying is good...

If CACH does not accept the 998 offer, will they be liable for costs and fees to include attorney's fees if beaten at trial?

To recover attorney's fees, an attorney has to charge fees. Your acquaintance is in pro per, so she is not incurring attorney's fees. She could not...

SHOULD PLAINTIFF SLAPPBACK NOW ?

It having been a motion to strike, it would have been subject to the frivolous motion standards of Cal. Civ. Proc. Code 128.5. That, however,...

Is it okay to use Barbies as characters in a short film?

The "Walking Mountain" case covered this very area, as an artist used Barbie dolls in a lot of situations -- the most striking to me was "Enchilada...