Can a person copyright a story that is in public domain that he didn't write?

You assert that "[o]ne of the original stories had a copyright in 1958 and didn't renew the copyright." If by that you mean that the copyright in...

Need help! How to determine a copyright claim is legitimate and how to respond properly.

You say that you "run a t-shirt website that find cool t-shirt designs around the web and showcase it on our site." By that I think you mean that...

Help please!? A company thinks they can take away my graphic design copyrights!

As my colleagues note, the issues are: (1) whether the designs you created were "prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her...

Can you freely link to other webpages from your website?

We need to be careful in response to this question because the law is different depending on the type of link being evaluated. The article...

I sent an idea to a company but did not have a patent. Now I see a product very similar to my own idea at the stores. Can I sue?

As my colleagues note, of course if you speak to [and pay] a patent attorney you will buy a thorough legal analysis of your situation. But should...

Legal or illegal to use images?

Q: "My question is this legal since the president and celebrities are public figures? " R: No. Not lonly do you not own the copyright, or a...

Is it legal to scrape and store information in a database with the user's consent?

All the major social networking sites forbid third parties [such as you] from accessing their sites for the purpose of compiling THEIR user's...

The trademark is actually "Boston Whaler" and is used and owned by Boston Whaler, Inc. which, in turn, is owned by Brunswick Corporation [the...

Drawing a picture tagged with Creative Common Rights and drawing a picture with a company name.

You want to draw a picture of a photograph but do not want to comply with the photographer's [very reasonable] requirement that you give him credit...

No one should, will or can provide you with a clearance opinion via this general information forum. One view of the Empire State Building does, in...