The legal issue is whether your painting would infringe the copyright or trademark rights in the "band logo or movie title or something." There...

Do you need mechanical license to write/record talk-songs?

A license to publicly perform or distribute a song is only required when doing so would infringe someone else's copyright in his already-existing...

The general rule is that a contract entered into by a minor can be enforced by the minor against the non-minor contracting party but is voidable at...

What license do I need to record a cover which I have restructured and/or added verse(s)?

Recording the performance of one or more modified songs creates a "derivative" of each sampled song. To lawfully publicly perform or distribute...

If by "record" you mean perform, record, and distribute then you'd need a license from eadh publisher of each song you're sampling. If by...

Printers protect themselves from direct and contributory copyright and trademark infringement claims by, at least: (1) buying an errors and...

No, a mechanical license is not sufficient. Your counter-response song using the same melody as the original would be a modification -- that is, a...

Verbal agreement for a logo design without financial compensation

A joint work under the copyright law, is a "work prepared by two or more authors with the intention that their contributions be merged into...

How many provisional patent applications to file for an invention that has many applications?

I second my colleague who notes that your invention will be defined by the claims in the nonprovisional patent application. Step one, therefore, is...

A great many authentic products sold in the U.S. are made in China. Put another way, just because a product adorned with a U.S. brand is made in...