copyright

I saw another thread that I wanted respond to but it was closed for replies. I want to sell football merchandise to fans but I can't get NFL licensing of course. I was thinking if I could make some generic graphics, not use the team's name, not the exact hex code color, different fonts and be...

Hello. I'm making a mico budget short film to be submitted to film festivals and the most likely destination is youtube. I want one of the characters to wear a mask of an animal... It is a generic mask, not based on an existing character in another film (Like the pig mask in Saw or Ghostface in...

I want to create a theatre management game and don't know if I can add titles and dances of pre-existing plays. I am fine with slightly altering the play title, and was planning on creating unique music and costumes, but I am worried about copyright infringement for the dance moves. I was...

The length of copyright protection varies from country to country. I've written some fan fiction that I want to publish. The original author's copyright will expire in some countries in 4 years, in others, 24 years. If I publish and sell it only in the countries in which the copyright has...

I used to teach English in China and created my own course by taking topics from an existing course and writing my own exercises for each topic. When I was just working one-on-one with students, this wasn’t a problem, but now, I’m thinking of putting the course on the Youtube. Would that be...

Hello: I have some photography copyright questions I am hoping to get answered. I have a family member's film negatives that were originally taken back in 1989-1993. As fas I know none have ever been published and he was the photographer (I do not believe work for hire either). He gave the...

I’m Founder and CEO of a small nonprofit organization that is likely about to get much much bigger, and I want to make sure we have everything in place to grow safely and protect everyone involved. Below is some context to our organization, and my questions - We’re a service dog organization...

Hi, I wanted to know if I can have a copy center print out 25 copies of my novel even though it is already published on a free e-books website. The non-exclusive copyright is in my name. I would not be selling the copies but giving them away.

Summary as follows: 1. Software components in the programming language ecosystem I use are sold with source code to provide security for companies in case the component developer goes out of business. 2. The licensees are software developers who incorporate the component into custom software...

I have received a summons from a corporation re copyright infringement and am one of 200 people listed in this summons. albeit not in my band but that of our eBay shop name but delivered to our email address associated with this. The listings were put on for our limited company in the uk and...

Hello, My company (an LLC) is being sued by another company for copyright infringement. Over the years on my website, I would include a photo with stories I wrote. I found these images on Google or social media. A law firm gathered up 123 instances over the last five or so years and have...

Hi everyone! I recently got a sealed temporary restraining order from a court due to copyright issues (in short: sale of self-made fanwork but to a series I do not have copyrights for) and while the order does not ask for any compensation in money, they asked me to take down listings and stop...

Dear thelaw users, I have uploaded a cooking video on YouTube where I used a recipe without giving the original authordirect credit, instead I gave credit to a third party website who published the recipe on their own server and also mentioned the original author. Now the original author used...

Hello all. I would like to understand if selling information scrapped from websites like amazon is illegal? Here's the situation: I'm planning to subscribe to the amazon API service and purchase this data. Then, analyze the data and mine it, turn it around and sell it as a service to other...

Hi! I'm graphic designer. I want to open online store where I can create posters/arts by using lyrics from songs in a creative way - typography art. I'm wondering if it's legal to do so? Of course it will be mentioned that lyrics are not mine but author's of song. Will it be legal? Do I need to...

Hello, I have a Home improvement blog and let's say I have a blog post about "10 Must-See Home Improvement Design" I collect images from the Internet and put them all on my website. I also put a text or a link to where I get the images from. For ex, Image 1, I put "Houzz" as the source or...

A volunteer creates many works for a nonprofit, without signing anything or giving ownership of the works to the nonprofit. The work is used, but after about a year, the volunteer resigns and, a month after the resignation, demands the nonprofit cease and desist all use of his/her intellectual...

Hello. Can a "DEAD" Trademark (earlier used as two word domain title) be used as domain name (same field, but other TLD), if the Trademark is also not in use for years (because of the common law). For example for 5 or 6. or... (a certain number of years?) years absolutely nothing. Except a...