Intellectual Property Legal Questions and Answers
What licensing is needed to start an online music database site?
I am creating a music entertainment website. With a database of over 400,000 songs, this website enables users to upload any song to an online program for free. This program enables users to manipulate and alter songs, similar to what a disc jockey does with records. When the user is finished recording their session, they can save and add the finished product to their online...
04/29/2009 | Category: Intellectual Prope... | State: Texas | #16473Would reading a book to someone for pay violate copyright laws?
I'm interested in starting my own business. I want to read to people for pay, i.e., books. As an example visiting senior citizen homes to read to a person one-on-one, or to a group a novel maybe and I would charge by the hour. However, would reading a book to someone for pay violate copyright laws?
04/14/2009 | Category: Intellectual Prope... | State: Ohio | #16004What is the law regarding publishing a deceased person's memoirs and the royalties included?
I am a freelance writer trying to help the sister of a deceased person get that person's memoirs published. This will not be a commercial transaction, although some royalties may accrue if the memoir is published. The deceased person left her estate in trust to twelve heirs, so we assume the intellectual property rights in the memoirs also belong to those heirs. Eleven of th...
04/14/2009 | Category: Intellectual Prope... | State: North Carolina | #16003Renewing Service Mark in California
I had a service mark with the State of California, but it expired in 2001. Is it possible to renew a service mark in California that has expired and what would be the fee?
04/14/2009 | Category: Intellectual Prope... | State: California | #16002How would you use a patent as collateral for an investor?
How would you use a patent as collateral for an investor?
04/04/2009 | Category: Intellectual Prope... | State: Washington | #15881Is there a contract that we should have signed prior to discussing a joint venture?
Is there a contract that we should have signed prior to discussing the particulars in a joint venture relationship. We are the 'small' company looking at working with a 'large' company. If yes, what type of contract? We reside in Montana but the business will be in Arizona.
03/27/2009 | Category: Intellectual Prope... | State: Montana | #15797