I'm making a movie for the New Orleans Film Festival. I would like to use a popular song from the radio. I don't want to get hit

Same question, same answer. And note that the performing rights organizations [BMI, ASCAP, SESAC] do not offer synchronization licenses.

I'd like to use a popular song from the radio for my short film. Would I be able to use a cover song? Could I make one?

Your question is inconsistent. You first note you want to license a "song from the radio" but then note you want to license a "ringtone." They're...

As my colleagues note, the proper approach is to create trademark rights, through your use in commerce of your "Yankee Doodle" phrase as your...

You want to hand out, for free, a handful of t-shirts adorned with a variety of copyright and trademark-protected images of fictional cat...

Yes, it's unlawful "for an artist who receives donations to raffle off a piece of their art that features a trademarked character." The...

Copyrighted Images in Prototype Unpublished Website

Copying "copyrighted images" is unlawful without the copyright owner's permission or a fair use defense. So ... no, you may not lawfully display...

The copyright that will attach to your autobiograohy, once written, will not "prevent others from exploiting and profiting from [your] hardship." ...

Copyright split for A session singer and songwriter

I second Attorneys Victoroff and David's note that your vocal contribution to the sound recording of a song is NOT, and cannot be, a work for hire....

If someone downloaded a video of copyrighted material, it it wrong to watch the video?

There's a difference between what's unlawful and what's "wrong." Very often they're not the same -- that is, often what's unlawful is not wrong...

Free speech?

Same question, same answer: There is no such thing as the “right to free speech.” What the First Amendment provides is the right to be free...