Can you use a drawing of dead person/celebrity for a website without asking permission.

You have three questions here. One is whether you have a license from that artist. I assume he or she is not your employee, so you need either a...

I recently was offered a record contract. I wanted to know if this contract is pretty standard and fair contract.

I agree with the lawyers who recommend you get a (paid) lawyer to go over the deal clause by clause. There is no such thing as a standard contract....

A competitor is calling my clients and saying that we transferred our obligations to them. What should I do?

I agree with Mr. Doland. This has little or nothing to do with trademarks—they are not pretending to be you. But they are using falsehoods to...

How to recover all of the monies gifted to a (then) potential partner in Canada??

You gave this money out of friendship. Keep it that way. Accept that she is paying you back. Do not expect her to impoverish herself just...

I doubt Hollywood FL has regulations on what you might name your building--the physical location. If they did it would most likely fail under the...

My product has the same name as 3 different products in 3 different industries. Only one has a trademark. Can I use it?

I suspect they all have trademarks, since you know their product names. The "common law" grants this right state by state and with those rights...

Can an attorney write a blog article about a company & use the company's name in the article or is this trademark infringement?

A trademark registration is intended to protect the registrant from others passing of their goods and services. It does not at all shield them...

Am I violating any copyrights?

Normally their DMCA warning should have included info on exactly whose copr. you allegedly violate. Blurring faces and tags is good as it avoids...

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My business is already established in the Maryland area but im looking to establish to NY, Atlanta and Orlando.

The law pretty much leaves such matters up to the people who make the deals so long as they express themselves clearly. That is where a lawyer can...

Ms Koslyn is probably correct about what will happen. But suits are underway now about US-made porn, not just about US-made family movies,...