I will be publishing a memoir, in which I quote a 1965 radio commercial for a used car lot. Are there possible copyright issues?

The question whether the content of the commercial was ever protected by copyright and, if it was, is it still so protected is interesting but...

How can my protect my startup idea?

Your question has been asked and answered many, many times. Visit the link below. You should read those questions and answers, follow the...

Can I post music online, without making people pay to listen to it, and not need a copyright license.

No, that's unlawful. The owner of the copyrights in the music have the EXCLUSIVE rights to publicly perform their songs and to distribute them. ...

Claim One's Profile from a Website

As my colleague notes, it's lawful to publish accurate, publicly-available information about a person -- even if to entice that person to engage in...

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Depends on the type of intellectual property and the particular court's controlling law. In most areas of the country, a copyright owner must...

Yup, right of publicity.

Do I hold intellectual property

There are no intellectual property rights in the bare idea for a product. IF, however, you have conceived, or contribute to the conception of,...

I am a broke inventor so I am filing on my own. Moving on...Some of the books I have read say that I need a cover page for ....

You don't need to file one but using the Patent Office-created transmittal sheet [ AIA/15 ] makes things go smoother at the Office. Visit the...

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Other company uses the same name as my company

There are unknown variables that bear on what you can do next. Many times a fictitious business name is NOT protectable, at all, absent a...

I have a collection of one-line quotations that have names attached to them. Can I sell as an ebook?

Being the aforementioned Daniel Ballard I heartedly concur with what I've previously written about quotes here on Avvo many, many, many times...

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