You have an awful lot of homework to do to learn how the digital music distribution business works. So read a few books and, if you're still...

Do I own an unpublished manuscript written by an acquaintance and given to me by her husband after the author's death?

The copyright in the manuscript will remain in force for 70 years after the death of its author. If she passed without children then her husband,...

In California what you're doing is expressly forbidden by California Education Code section 66450 [visit the link below]. I don't know if New York...

Can I use altered/unaltered copyrighted material for personal use? Or, assuming I could, should I get permission?

Printing someone else's copyrighted image on one tee shirt that only you will wear is so de minimus that law, specifically copyright law, will not...

Can you help with copyright law and images from the internet?

First, "graphics, images and artwork" are all the same thing. They're all graphics -- and under copyright law they're called "works of authorship."...

Creating press releases and blog posts for business owners

What you're proposing to do is to start a business. So learn how by reading a few of the books linked-to below. Your plan is to hire people...

If I have an exclusive license to use a company's trademark on a product can that company use the same mark on the same product?

Please read my response to your very similar question.

How exclusive is an exclusive license to use a trademark?

This endeavor makes no sense to me. Company A owns a trademark [to brand what, you don’t say]. You want to buy a license to use that same...

How do you protect an "invention" when approaching a patent lawyer, the first step of the patent process?

My colleagues have already very ably answered your question. The main reason I will not sign an NDA offered by a potential patent application...

If I apply for a patent as a Micro Entity....

Q: "“If I apply for a patent as a Micro Entity will I later be unable to Assign or License my patent to an Entity With Income Exceeding $150,162 …...

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