Is a website that i built and a company paid to go live legally theirs?

You entered into a contract to provide a service. You, apparently, believe you fulfilled your end of the bargain. Assuming the company that hired...

I was sent a special edition contract to enter into a recording/publishing contract with a publishing company.

As noted by my colleague, it is not normal for a songwriter to have to pay money to enter into a music publishing contract. You should read a few...

If the event was public -- in the sense of being held at a venue in which the public may routinely enter or which held an event to which the public...

Maybe. Depends on whether movie-goers will associate the name used in the movie with your actual family. If no, then you have no cause to complain....

I have invented an outdoor game about 25+ years ago, at the time my layer did not complete his work and the patent was abandoned

Forget what happened in the past. Time to move on. IF you think you've created "a number of original games" that, after some market research,...

I am looking for clarification on IP law with open source hardware with joint inventors/owners.

"Open source" is a phrase that's typically used only to describe computer source code that its author freely licenses to others [with more or fewer...

Foreigner using small business website run under the US based domain hosting company, can they be sued for US intellectual p law

You want to know whether a company based outside the United States can properly be sued within the United States. Sometimes yes, sometimes...

You need to discuss with your own Georgia-licensed trademark attorney whether he or she thinks that it's proper to file a Section 1(b) application...

Is it possible to trademark a name such a "cash for gold los Angeles

No. That phrase is merely a description of the services being offered.

I wrote an honest lawyer review. He'd threatened to sue me if I wrote a negative review. Would such a suit have merit?

VERY often people NEED to hear direct, straight-forward truths they do want to hear -- and, all too often, are incapable of hearing. Attorneys...