Internet photos

Can a non-profit organization create posters using images found on the internet if the images are not clearly copyrighted?

Non Disclosure Agreement

I need to have a valid mutual NDA with an unknown person known on the internet. Is this possible in some way? Since the person (and I) are private persons without own FAX, how it is possible to ashure the identity of the person?

being suid

am being suid for property damages.the man suing me claims i hit his passeger car door when i didnt.i threw a almost empty water bottle at the driver side car door.he is making alot of false accusations and i have court date and i cant afford a lawyer .i got very angry after he got right in front of ne when i was driving pretty fast and to avoid hitting him i almost lost control of my car.and that mad me very angry so i honked at him he just laughed so i honed again and he pulled over and so did i and we got in an argument this happened almost a year ago the police came to my house to ask me questions and showed me pictures and i didnt see any dents or anything.and the police man said the man is just making it a bigger deal then what it really is for money which i dont have because am a full time student.

Business Agreement

We are hiring a consulting company to develop a medical diagnostic test. We have a CDA agreement, but what other documents should we have to protect our test?

I make catnip toys and want to use the Green party logo on one of the toys

Is this illegal without their permission?

Because it is a political party...can we

use it?

printing copyrighted lyrics

To print lyrics to a song in a book what must I do?

Displaying items without its brand name

If I were to use an image of a product but take off the brand name of that product so that basically the shell is what the viewer sees, am I infringing on any laws?

recipe ownership

i am a chef, can i be sued for my recipes if i resign

Food Patent/Copyright/Trademark

I have invented a food condiment. I have a meeting with an executive at Baja Fresh next week to sample the product. I have no patent/copyright/trademark for the product. I'm concerned they'd steal my product. What legal protection do I need?

Copyright

I write music what do I need to do to protect it before I send it to anyone. Do i have to pay for a copyright for each song?I was told that if it was on paper or cd that it was already done and I can send it out is that true or is there more to it than that?

business, corporate, intellectual property

I live in pennsylvania but my soon to be partner lives in new york. She owns the trademark (although i made up the name and she trademarked it)-the patent has not been registered yet but soon will be in her name probably. I own the internet names. We want to protect ourselves in a joint business with a contract of some sort plus a c corp. All rights must be commonly owned. Which documents will i need? She need?

which forms to use

I live in pennsylvania and my soon to be business partner lives in new york state. My partner owns the patent and trademark and I own the internet domain names. We are C corporation. Which forms do I need? We need?

pettion for fiance

i have already filed an 1864 and i was asked to do it again

Who Owns the IP

I am the inventor of a patent. I gave the IP to my company and they filed for the patent. We signed an assignment of IP rights, stating they must pay me this year, or the rights revert to me. They cannot pay me. So the IP rights revert to me? But they have the patent? Confusing situation. Can I stop them from using the patent commercially until they pay me?

libel

Can I use a photo of a friend in my memoirs without his/her permission? Some of the friends are dead and others have moved away. The memoirs about NY state is not for publication but a copy will be given to a public library.

Source code stolen, delivered to competitor

Over the past 9 years, our corporation has developed a web database system which, to date, has completed client transactions in excess of $170 Million.

A client requested bids for such a system. We submitted the winning bid, and agreed to license & install an instance of the software.

Before commencement, we sent non-disclosure & licensing agreements (moderately technical in scope). One member of the client�s board of directors claimed not to understand the technical documents and expressed reservations about signing.

The client requested we simply present an invoice, pay 50% down, and skip signing. We sent a single-line invoice stating �(CORP NAME, SOFTWARE TRADE NAME) Software License Quantity: 1�.

Client loves the system, but has not paid the remaining balance.

We installed system in a source code form that has never before left our company�s possession. This is our most valuable asset & closely guarded trade secret.

Recently, we learned that an employee of the client emailed the entire source code of our system to one of the competitors that had also submitted a bid for this project! Competitor requested code to reverse engineer for another project!

Without a signed agreement, what recourse do we have?

Screenshots

I am planning a membership web site that will educate web owners to look at their marketing efforts and web site design from their customer's perspective.

I want to use screen shots of existing random web sites to show examples of good and poor design, again from the customer's point of view. There will be no discussion of the web site's products or services. I would use these screen shots on my web site, in videos, blogs & podcast.

I see such screen shots in books all of the time.

Do I run into liability issues by doing this? If so, how might I go about doing this?

Thank you.

Similar Name Trademark Consent Form

We had a trademark search done, for a band name, and there is someone with a similar name in the same class code for example, there name is ''silver trash'' and ours is ''trash''.

Is there a ''consent for use of similar name form'' that we can send ''Silver Trash'' which if they agree can sign and we can present to the USPTO that would allow us to get and use the name ''trash'' as a service mark? And if there is, where can we get one. Or can we just make one up and send it to them?

Using trademarked word in book title

I want to write a book ''Soft Drink History: How Coca Cola changed the US soft drink industry.'' What issues might I have since CC is a trademark?

Unothorized use of image

Hi,

I received a notice from Gettyimages asking me to pay $1,400 because my company website uses an image from their stock photo.

The thing is that the image on my website is a thumbnail version so reduced in size that I never even wonder where it came originally from - additionally the image came from some free template I downloaded years ago.

I am not sure what to do at this point except of course removing this thumbnail (which I don't even like anyway).

Please advise.

Thanks

J