Although you can be sued at any time by anybody for any reason or no reason at all, Japanese companies tend to be less litigious on derivative works in general as opposed to American animation companies. The best you can do is reduce the likelihood that they will pursue action.

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Lanham Act is the enforcement measure for trademarks. Since I don't see any specific trademarks identified in your question, copyright would be the primary vehicle for enforcement.

You should have a copyright to the work. If you haven't registered the copyright, I would do that... View More

Generally speaking, no, it is not legal. Most streaming services only provide movies for home use only. Public display would not be within the "personal use" that is licensed with your subscription. Since you are dealing with Disney, I would expect them to be rather firm on this point,... View More

If your name is a lesser included word in the same category as an existing mark, then that mark is generally not available. If the existing mark is for something unrelated to your clothing line, such as children's toys, then there is not likely to be any conflict.

For example, the... View More

Generally speaking, you are not responsible for damage to computers that access your site, although if you're blindly serving up viruses or worms, you will find your free hosting service shutting down your site before much gets served. Any services that permit such have gone away in the days... View More

First, copyright and plagiarism are not the same thing. Keep that in mind. Plagiarism is an academic concern, whereas copyright is a legal concern. Lawyers do not concern ourselves with plagiarism. You would have to consult your academic institution to determine what would be required to avoid... View More

There are many reasons sellers only target consumers in a limited market. Legality to sell the product is only one. Others might include taxes, warranty challenges, privacy limitations, trademark/copyright limitations, or just not wanting to risk getting hauled into court in a foreign jurisdiction... View More

First and foremost, you can be sued by anybody at any time for any reason or no reason at all. I repeat this all the time to my clients. There is nothing you can do about it. However, it should be over shortly if they don't have a reason to recover.

If there is an active patent on the... View More

When someone photographs a person, the copyright to the photograph is owned by the photographer, rather than the subject. A subject generally speaking has Likeness rights. Unlike copyright, likeness rights are not federal and will be determined on a state by state basis. It can get kind of... View More

If you have a trade license for "Business Journal" for a country outside of the United States, it does not apply to within the United States. That name is already registered to a nationwide entity doing business on business. You can make your website available unblocked on the internet,... View More

This is more likely than not to be a scam. There are several hallmarks of a scam that you have described here.

First, your relationship with them is only in an online forum. You do not know these people and they only know what you have told them about you. If you have done something... View More

No.

How people can use your image depends on where you post it. You can find information on who can use your photo in the terms of service/privacy policy of the site where you posted it.

LEGO makes locking bricks, which are rather obviously not video games. Other companies make locking bricks, so it's fine to use imagery of locking bricks for your video game. If you want to specifically use the LEGO name or identifiers in your video game and sell it, you are effectively using... View More

What you are looking at doing is creating what's called a "derivative work". It is possible you could change it so much that it would no longer be covered by the original copyright, but that is unlikely. The Supreme Court decided recently that Andy Warhol's work violated... View More

Get on this quick. You need to have a patent in process within a year of disclosure of the ignition lock. You could either file a patent yourself through USPTO.gov or get a patent agent or attorney to help you with that. Filing is the first thing you need to do and if you're not perfect, you... View More

This is such a common problem that I always advise founders to establish an agreement before anyone does any serious work. Hopefully this bad experience doesn't dissuade you from starting new projects (only with agreements in writing first).

If you have records of the code you... View More

You are totally in the clear for links.

You aren't making any claim to or copy of any content when you link to it so copyright doesn't even apply. The only concern you should really have is the possibility that the linked material could be changed or removed by the people who... View More