Internet Business Contract Question

Our company has a website that lists real estate auctions for auctioneers in our area. We ran across the Terms & Conditions page on another site that lists real estate foreclosures. The items covered in their document are almost identical to what we need for our business, and we wondered if it is illegal to modify their contract to fit our business and use it on our own site? Most of the terms involve not being liable to site visitors for incorrect information, real estate professionals maintaining responsibility for compliance with RESPA and the rules of their licensing bodies, and covers payment and refund terms.

Any advice about contract copyright rules related to internet businesses is much appreciated!

Legal issues with memoir writing

What type of attorney do I look for to advise me about writing a memoir. It involves Iraq, company corruption, and personal illegal acts among other things. I'd like to tell my story without getting sued by people and companies that might recognize themselves.

SOL for products in 3 different classes

I have a registered trademark with 3 different international classes. At the time of registrationand use 1988, the classes contained a multitude of products. A couple of months ago I proceeded with filing an amendment with the USPTO to delete the various products that I did not longer carry.

Now, I have the same company the filed a cancellation against my trademark coming back to make me provide them with invoices from two decades ago. Is there a statute of limitations? This company that filed this cancellation already had lost the first cancellation with prejudice. I understand that they can come back with another cancellation as long as the subject matter is not the same. But how can a company that already lost interest and lost any claim of ownership able to keep on harrasing me?

liability release

inventor soliciting company ask for a

release form. Is their a boiler plate form?

right to property

my mo therdeceased and surviving children want the right to collect her belongings which are now locked away by the home owner who supposedly gave her the home as a gift we don't want the house only her belongings even though she funded the remodeling of the home

mobile home park lot

in my mobile home park every home has 15 feet of space on both sides of their homes as their lot space except mine and the one nest to me. she got a new home and when they put the new one it they moved it further away from mine so she could have more space between us. there was only about 6 or 7 feet before she moved her new one in and the old one out. Now she claims all the space between us except 4 feet for me. Now she has all the space from her old lot [ except my 4 feet] plus all of another lot on the other side of her too that she expects to build car ports one on each side of her mobile home. now i am the only home in this park that is not afforded any space on one side of my home, in this entire park. and we all pay the same lot rent....I feel like this violates my equal rights reguarding lot space..does it and what can or should I do. I am 70 years old....Please help me with some advice...ronald martin

Law Concerning Movie Royalties

I belong to a senior homeowners community in NJ and we want to show movies in our clubhouse at no charge to the residents. Someone said that we had to pay a royalty fee ''to some movie organization'' if we do this. Does the law require that a royalty be paid? If so, to whom? Is there any case law to cover this situation? Thank you.

Internet business

I am looking into buying a website, how do I protect myself from scams or a dishonest seller. And if it proves to be an honest opportunity how can I protect myself and my investment?

Opposing Patent registration

can a shareholder holding 51% stake oppose his parten who holds 49% registering a patent the partner did using the companies resources?

overlap and conflict in intellectual property

These verious form can be used to protect different aspects of the same products. As a simple example, a drug may have a patent on the actual drug molecule, but a later developed slow release formulation may be kept a trade secret. The brand name is protected by trademark and the advertisements by copyright. A unique pill shape may even be protected by design patent.

In my opinion, if an applicant choose some forms of intellectual property to protect diffrent aspects of the same product, it is no problem. But if there are some applicants, each of them fill to one form of intellectual property for one aspect of the same product. Is there any conflict in the intellectual property right? Can you explain for me. Thank you very much!

wiki errata to copyrighted text

A Physics text I'm studying is full of typographical errors, and errors of analysis. I propose to put up a wiki

for readers of the book to accumulate an errata. I've emailed the publisher proposing it, and gotten a vague reply.

I argue that putting up a wiki commenting in detail on the text is equivalent to quoting and criticizing

the text in a student term paper or thesis, which is allowable.

The wiki would not make a profit, or show advertising, or have any other commercial aspect.

The contents would be covered

under GNU or copyleft.

Is this legal under the copyright laws? Could the publisher object?

The publisher can incorporate the corrections into the next edition of the text without objection. It seems

to be in their interest.

The community of students benefits from having a good errata for an

uneven, but necessary, text.

Your thoughts/

Protecting My Nature Photos on Website

How can I protect the photos that I put on out Adventure Website?

eviction from land ?

sir, there are some peoples(around 80 famlies) who has occupied our place & living from 40 year .I have a registry of that place.

I have no idea how to empty that place from illegal occupation of land with in mimimum period of time & minimum expenditure?

Patent Attorney Client Question

If I am a patent attorney, and I represent a client for his patent, where there is a coinventor, but only my client has signed the retainer, is the coinventor also my client? What if I have shared information with the coinventor?

Question regarding Transformative Use in copyright law

I have a question regarding Transformative Works versus Derivative Works in copyright law. Let's say I have purchased a pattern for something, for example, how to sew a dress or how to build a shed, and that pattern is copyrighted, all rights reserved, including derivative works, etc. The holder of the copyright claims that I would be forbidden from actually building the thing the pattern describes and selling that item.

Reading up a little on transformative works, it seems to me that building and selling the thing described in the pattern would be fair use and not a derivative work, because I am not embedding the instructions on how to build the item into the item itself, and I am not impacting the ability of the copyright holder to sell the pattern. The item itself does not describe how to build it. I think the argument could be made that selling the item might enhance the sales potential of the pattern.

Thoughts?

Thank you,

David

Use the dot-com if the dot-org is in use?

Hi guys.

I've read many other answers and the advice some of you give is amazingly generous. I wonder if anyone can help with my specific situation.

I registered WikiTree-dot-com in May 2004 but have not used it yet. I want to start using it now.

A gentleman in Belgium registered WikiTree-dot-org in April 2005 and started using it immediately. It's a non-profit site that he calls ''WikiTree'', not ''WikiTree-dot-org''.

According to an online TARR search he hasn't trademarked WikiTree, but he's clearly established first use.

The use is basically the same as mine will be. They're close enough to be confused, i.e. both wiki-based family history websites.

I'm friendly with this guy now, and we don't plan to directly compete with each other, but you never know about the future.

So ... same kind of site. I registered the dot-com first. He established first use in the space but hasn't applied for a trademark.

Can I call my site WikiTree without fear of him or the next owner of WikiTree-dot-org trademarking it later?

Would it help if he and I simply agree not to challenge each other's use?

Thank you!

Question about exactly which forms I need to purchase (as per description below)

Hi, I have an internet business idea that I will need to share with various people (ie.the person building the website, the person driving traffic to the website, potential advertisers, etc.). I know that I need to be concerned with non-disclosure and non-compete. Can you tell me exactly which forms I need to purchase (including, but not limited to, non-disclosure & non-compete agreements)? Thank you so much!

Legal Representation for Inventors And Additional Patent Applications

1-One uses an attorney who specializes in intellectual property law to apply for the patent for an invention. After that, what kind of attorney does one hire to handle the next steps, i.e. investor seeking, marketing, advertising? I'm in contact with major fitness corporations, but I need representation before meeting with them personally.

2-Does an additional patent application need to be filed for if the design, function or some concepts have been modified--differing from the originally patented invention?

Advertising

I am a magazine publisher. Is it my responsibility to verify information advertisers place in their ads? What are my legal obligations?

Film titles

Can film titles be copyrighted or trademarked?