This was a wealthy Youtuber who offered $10,000 USD as a prize to the best video made to fit a hashtag. He gained millions of subs and earned millions of dollars in AdSense revenue from the contest but kept the money. When another creator called him out, he made a poor excuse for deciding not to pic...
I am a graphic designer in video games. My former employer is asking me to remove images of a game I have worked on from my online portfolio. These images are taken from the published game (no confidential material). Can I safely decline to edit my portfolio?
A few examples are: The Cones of Dunshire from the TV show 'Parks and Recreation', CharDee MacDennis from the TV show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia', and True American from the TV show 'New Girl'.
actually, for the presidents I would use their names. I would use nicknames for the celebrities.
In short, we run several large-scale game servers (such as Minecraft) which are run for profit. Due to the nature of Minecraft being a sandbox game, this allows content creators to have maximum flexibility over what they choose to provide to their audience. Minecraft "servers" (i.e. public communiti...
Do you know the Pokemon series? I want to make a software that makes it easy to create a Pokemon game I won't be using any of their data, art, sprites, code or anything that is associated with them but the idea. Can I do it? and if I can, can I charge for it?
I´m planning to release new casino table game. So I´m interested about how much it costs. And which parts of patent process would be most expensive. THX
We are opening a website which will target at US customers. We will sell subscription for Internet services like surveymonkey.com or Evernote. Our company is currently based in China so we are not very sure about US taxation. Do we need to report tax to US government? What kind of tax consequences w...
Game developer looped all buildings that can be boosted, together. In the past they could individually boost. If one were upgrading you didn't boost it. Now you pay even though the building is useless. It is only a question of pennies but considering the amount of children and millions of players wh...
I’m going to be releasing a video game soon and since I’m likely going to charge a small fee for people to download it I’d like to answer a legal couple questions just to be on the safe side: 1. Is it legal to use cartoon likenesses of famous/living American politicians or Hollywood actors in a vide...
Basically, I used the song for inspiration for characters, setting, and plot. The reasons, some events, names, and everything else will be from my imagination. And some characters will say some lines from the song word for word in conversation (not song). I will not have the actual song sung anywher...
I am planning on creating and eventually monetizing a video game blog. I would like to include images of the video games I write about, however I'm not sure if that would be copyright infringement. I would appreciate is someone could tell me if this is allowed. Thank you.
Can I file a claim on my own or should I get attorney. I've had headaches and dizziness. I was transported to hospital and have done follow up with doctor. I fell and hit my head bad on wet walkway outside of casino. No signs posted. Very slippery walkway and it was wet. Please advise. I've sent a l...
If I, for example, ask you to give me $100 and I will give you the team that will 100% win the Super Bowl 2017 I guarantee that. And then it turns out some other team had won and there was no legal contract only like a facebook message where I claimed that certain team will win 100% so can I get sue...
If an online company that sells bundles of digital keys for games would say, that they can revoke the digital keys at any time if they find out that the customer (buyer) has been selling the products further or if they just suspect him doing so, could they revoke the keys without refunding the money...
The game is Minecraft and I'm using someones code for a minecraft server that brings in alot of revenue and now the owner of that code who is threading to sue me. To sum things up the code was developed for minecraft servers performance but he doesn't have any affilation with microsoft or mojang AB ...
