Is it legal to use a company's name on your advertisement (shop poster) NOT their logo.

I agree with Attorney Whitaker -- you may lawfully include in your advertisements the company names of the manufacturers of products that you...

Help with legal aspects of reviews website:

You're creating a business. Did you pay your website designer? How about your website host? Your internet service provider? How about software...

Read and think through some scholarship on the subject. For example: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1818189 One...

I am hoping to make (and sell) hand-made baseball cards, they are gaining interest. Can I use an athletes last name on them?

Hmm. I’m normally the one advising that intellectual property rights are limited and that many uses of another’s intellectual property is lawful. ...

Can I use general verbiage from another website, in my website?

It would be unlawful under copyright law, and perhaps under unfair competition as well, to copy and re-publish the paragraph that you quote. You...

It's lawful to use the name a sports team in the title of a book so long as the title does not convey that the book was either written by the...

I had to send my cell phone into company and forgot to delete images of porn pics, all photos were of legal age, male and female

Two issues are in play: (1) Are the photographs unlawful for you to own and (2) does your contract with your phone company permit the latter to...

Can you take legal action against a website that allows you to post comments but if a poster reply's to a comments

The short answer is that, no, you very likely have no claim against the website. Even though a person violates the Guidelines or Content Policy or...

As far as intellectual property law is concerned it's lawful to mix two or more sauces together, bottle that mixture, and sell that mixture under...

I want to start a entertainment news site. Can I legally download clips from web series/shows for commentary under "fair use"?

Q: Can I legally download clips from web series/shows for commentary under "fair use"? R: No. And it's not because news organizations "are...