A question about software copyright/intellectual property.

You need to find and read the terms of the "GPL" that's used by the "company that sells web software to create a social network." The GNU GPL...

What can I patent or copywrite when starting an online business?

Aside from the intellectual property protections potentially available for your website, you need to get up to speed on how to lawfully import...

I got a copyright infringement notice for a movie that I downloaded. Its not listed in copyright registry. Am I still liable?

You downloaded a movie that you didn't pay for using bit torrent - and during that time others could have been downloading it from you. You got...

Is it trademark infringement to post a public domain book that has a trademarked logo on it?

I agree with Attorney Kosyln -- and will go further. Making available a digital copy of a public domain book that happens to have on its cover...

If I wanted to write an ebook about making money through say...craigslist or yahoo, what is the legality?

The rules are that you cannot do anything [in writing the book or marketing the book] that even hints that you are associated with, sponsored by,...

There are way too many facts in play that you have not, and cannot, disclose in a public forum that are necessary to consider before anyone can...

Can closing the plant be ethically justified

" ... can closing the plant be ethically justified ... ?" Of course. Some [including me] would say, in fact, that it's morally repugnant to...

My Idea. My credit?

Could the company publicly acknowledge that you provided them with your "opinion on their slogan name"? Sure. Could it publicly acknowledge that...

My name (as well as my company name) has been used by a publisher for a cookbook that i never wrote

As my colleagues note, you may have been wronged -- but maybe not. It depends on how your name and your company name "has been used." If only...

Use of Trademarks in Fiction

No equivocation: yes.

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