if im not USA resident can i file an action seeking a court order in my country according to DMCA?

Once an alleged infringer responds with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act counter-notice, the complaining copyright owner must file "an action...

It is -- almost without doubt -- lawful to publish a book of photographs that show "signs, storefronts and window displays." Even if those...

Your own Ohio-licensed employment law attorney needs to apply that state's law when considering whether you have any continuing obligations to your...

When making social media posts for a business can we refer to a professional sports team name at all?

Sometimes that's lawful, sometimes not. Your own examples provide useful guidance: 1. Posting the statement "eat with us for the Packer's Game" --...

The only way to create a property right in "a text statement" is to use it as a trademark to brand particular products and/or services. As my...

Why not simply dress your model in clothes without a visable brand identifier? That's easy and routine. If the answer is that you want consumers...

As suggested by my colleague, adding a famous brand name or logo onto your clothes is petty and small-minded. It's lawful, however, to add a...

Someone videoed my husband and I at our wedding and added it on Facebook. How do we gain rights and not him?

The only lawful way to have the video's copyright transferred to you is to persuade its creator to assign his copyright to you as a gift or in...

Three questions regarding live music, copyright and licensing.

1. The license fee paid to a performing rights organization is to lawfully publicly perform a song's musical composition as it was written. Change...

The image of the fictional character you created may be copyright-protected if it's sufficiently creative. Some are not. Assuming it is, and...