Can I start a sole proprietorship if I want to make a full time living as an artist but want to do business anywhere?

The Small Business Administration informs us that at last count we had about 24.3 million nonemployer businesses in the United States. Of those,...

Can I create a crowd sourced database of questions via app users of a trivia game to create an unofficial strategy guide?

The company that distributes the trivia application spends time, money, and creativity to draft the trivia and the questions that it publishes via...

Do I need to re-copyright a work I copyrighted too soon and then changed/improved?

The copyrights in a collection of UNpublished short stories extends to the selection and arrangement of the anthology as a whole AND to each...

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Can a company claim trademark to the silhouette image of the great lakes?

A silhouette of the Great Lakes can serve as a trademark to brand certain products and/or certain services. If you're not offering those same, or...

Do you lose benefits under the copyright law under in the following situation?

The Supreme Court is currently mulling over whether the statutory prerequisite to filing and prosecuting a copyright infringement lawsuit is a...

No one "buys" a copy of an electronic book. Consumers buy a license to access the digital file that codes for the book. That license contractually...

Will I be liable?

Khashoggi was, in fact, killed in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. You're clearly NOT writing "historical fiction." You...

What kind of case do I have regarding someone shooting a music video in my home without permission?

I very strongly doubt you have any sort of privacy intrusion claim under any body of law. California common law protects against unwanted (1)...

Under U.S. copyright law it's usually lawful to display on your website the title of a blog or news article and a very short snippet from the...

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Can I make and sell custom records?

The act of making a physical recording of a song from a digital file requires reproducing the song's sound recording. The owner of the copyright in...