The creation of copyright is automatic in the United States when a sufficiently creative idea is captured in a tangible medium. Thus, when you...

Your asking if you "can" do certain things is not the correct way to frame the question. More accurately, the question is, "If I use/watch/loan...

This invokes an area of law known as the Right of Publicity, which is akin to trademark law. People, in general, have a right to have a say in how...

United States Copyright Law provides to the copyright owner the exclusive right to publicly perform the works in which they own a copyright. Such...

By way of contrast, the rules of the US Copyright Office state that a ~copyright~ registration is effective from the date the complete application...

You should treat your Terms of Use as a click-wrap (preferred) or browse-wrap (probably OK) contract, meaning that it should be in the name of the...

Trademark rights accrue through use, not through registration. The owner of your trademarks will be the person or entity using them, ~as...

How do you transfer the rights to just one song that was copyrighted as part of an unpublished collection?

Ownership and transfer of copyright are distinct issues from registration of copyright. If you are demonstrably the owner of the copyright in the...

You are correct to wish to protect your intellectual property before widely disseminating the idea to investors and others. Please remember that...

If I mention someone elses registered trademark in my commercial material, is this enough to claim trademark infringement?

My esteemed colleagues are of course correct. May I also suggest that if indeed your audios are "Trademark X Compatible" that you contact the...