Extracting images from websites - fair use/copyright infringement?

Let's back up: You operate a website for profit. To operate that website you "grab" images and documents created by others [I assume this means...

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Is it illegal for someone to buy a transcribed cover of a song? Or is only the seller at fault if they aren't licensed?

Like my colleagues, I think it's unlawful to sell sheet music that one creates by listening to a song that's still protected by copyright. The...

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Copyright Infringement before a copyright

Q: "I found that their image did not have a copyright on it until six years after I first used the image." R: As noted by my colleagues,...

I made a copyright infringement claim and it has been challenged. How could this counter-claim be valid?

Stripped of its histrionics the fact pattern is that: Person A created a mean-spirited song about a Church and its Pastor. He offers the song...

First, do not discuss this matter any further in any public forum -- including this one. Second, you need to immediately speak with a...

My current spouse going to be ex altered my provisional patent application and added herself as a co-inventor , what can, i do.

Only the patent attorney who filed the provisional patent application or all the originally-listed inventors can add anyone [including your wife]...

Intellectual Property

When two of more people work together toward a business goal they have, absent a written otherwise, created a "partnership." The people in that...

Sheet Music and copyright etc.

You note, as if a revelation, the obvious fact that some musicians can learn to perform a song without reading the song's sheet music. Yup,...

Can I use statements made by a celebrity doctor about my product in a print advertisement for my product?

The advertising blurb that you propose violates Dr. Oz's right of publicity. In short, even though your statement is factually accurate, singling...

I am writing a book and I need pictures of power tools

There's a decent argument that if your book is about power tools you have a "fair use" right to publish the manufacturer's photographs of its power...