What is the first question to ask the developer about manufacturing and getting your invention sold. Should I have a lawyer pr

Based on your inquiry, the first question that YOU need to ask whomever it is you're talking to is "are you the developer or the manufacturer of...

Can I create an iPad app that enables users to view news and information based on their specific search keys?

The intersection of law and technology trips up both the technologists and the lawyers. From your limited description it sounds to me as if your...

The word BOX is federally registered for use as a trademark by lots of companies to brand many different products and services. See, for...

I agree with Attorney Borchard. It has long been the rule, set by the US Supreme Court, that it is lawful to repackage a branded product for...

No. MLK died in Georgia, one of 26 or so states that recognize a person's "right of publicity" -- either by statute or under the common law. ...

Can someone actually provide a link to what does and does not constitute copyright infringement regarding music copying?

You wrote: " ... If I own a tape of an album, I feel I should be able to download it.." And if you do then you're copying someone else's copy of...

What should I do?

As Attorney Koslyn implies, you’re flat wrong that the trademarks used to brand the Sturgis Bike Week rally were “only recently awarded.” As...

What stops abuse from copy right? Ie. owners planting their images to be used unaware targets to gain inflated fees/settlements?

You asked: "Should not the images, in public postings, have carried a copy right mark, informing potential user that these images are not public...

In a photography copyright infringement case, if defendants cannot prove their affirmative defenses, what happens?

It means that the defendant will not prevail in whatever affirmative defense it cannot prove -- the "affirmative" part of affirmative defense...

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If I'm not allowed to publish on my website royaltee-free photos of celebrities, how do paparazzi get clean with it?

Paparazzi do not "get clean with it." They sell the rights in their photographs to the news media [read that gossip rags] and those media outlets...

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