Is it legal for me to sell an ebook online full of jokes i copied and pasted from other websites?

Jokes tend to be owned by the people who come up with them. That said, it is unlikely that anyone is going to come after you for telling their...

Do i have a good chance of my military discharge being changed?

It is unlikely that you will get an OTH changed all the way to an honorable. It depends on lots of things like how much time has passed since you...

Transferring the copyright from a photographer paid to take pictures of a few dresses I designed?

The photographer doesn't have any interest in your dress design, he only owns the photographs. To transfer the copyrights themselves, you would...

If i take a picture of a picture online using my camera & use the picture in a book i want to publish is that ok or infringement

No, you cannot do this. It would be pretty much the same as if you downloaded the picture directly.

I am the only living child of a man who served in the army that is now deceased can i collect money from the army or ssi?

It depends on lots of things. If he retired from the Army, and if he selected the Survivors Benefits Plan option, and he did not have a spouse,...

Can I create from scratch a well-known logo with different colors and different fonts from the original to sell online?

Depends on what you intend to do. Are you just trying to sell a logo? Or are you selling other products with the similar logo? If the latter,...

Do I need to copyright my photos? What if I sell the photos, the disk and the copyrights? How does that work?

Great questions. You're right, "officially" registering your copyright is not necessary in order to actually have a copyright. In fact, you would...

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Yes, this should fall within the "time shifting" fair use exception created back when the VCR was invented.

If the quote is not recognizable as a Seinfeld-only quote, then there should not be a problem. Your question is a little unclear in that you are...

The federal district judge took over a year to write a disposition on his MSJ ruling. Is this grounds to overturn his ruling?

No.