May 30, 2019 / by Sean Friend / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
As a content creator, it’s important to know the rules when it come to making, editing, and publishing videos on YouTube. One aspect of creating videos for YouTube is having great music to accompany your video which will emcourage the viewer to keep watching. According to Time Magazine, we now have a shorter attention span […]
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How to Market Your Business with Photos and Images Without Encountering Copyright Issues
October 5, 2020 / by Kameron Kramer / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
So you’ve set up your business and the next step is to market it! A picture may be worth a 1,000 words . . . and it can also be worth a lot of money if it results in a copyright lawsuit! So, how do you engage your audience and get customers interested with captivating […]
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Playing Background Music At Your Business? You Might Be Breaking The Law.
July 23, 2020 / by Larry Donahue / Intellectual Property / 1 comment
Music is the universal language. Regardless of race, religion or nationality, music moves us, inspires us and can even influence our behaviors. If you own a business and play music, you stand to benefit from an array of positive results ranging from increased sales, more satisfied customers, even happier employees. The experience of entering a […]
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Answering Demand Letters Regarding Your Website
February 5, 2020 / by Larry Donahue / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
As an attorney who deals with hi-tech cases, a few clients have expressed to me a situation that I feel any business owner who has a website should learn from. The situation involves business owners that paid an independent contractor to build their websites. Unconcerned with where all the images came from, they never asked […]
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Copyright Law and The Phillie Phanatic Lawsuit
September 23, 2019 / by Kameron Kramer / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
The Philadelphia Phillies’ mascot, the Phillie Phanatic, may soon not be the property of the Phillies. How and why this could be are interesting questions that teach us a part of copyright law that not everyone is aware of. A little background regarding the Phillie Phanatic is appropriate, but I don’t want to get hung […]
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Gain Copyright Protection by Using an Anonymous LLC
August 26, 2019 / by Kameron Kramer / Intellectual Property / 2 comments
These days, confidentiality is hard to come by. On a personal level, it’s hard to be anonymous even on a weekend vacation with friends when they tag you in pictures on their Instagram feed. In a business context, many filings and registrations are publicly accessible with just a click of a mouse. There are a […]
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YouTube’s Copyright Rules
May 30, 2019 / by Sean Friend / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
As a content creator, it’s important to know the rules when it come to making, editing, and publishing videos on YouTube. One aspect of creating videos for YouTube is having great music to accompany your video which will emcourage the viewer to keep watching. According to Time Magazine, we now have a shorter attention span […]
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Darth Vader and the Copyright Issues
January 28, 2019 / by Kameron Kramer / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
Photograph by Mike, distributed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. Most Star Wars fans have now seen the Darth Vader video titled “Vader Episode 1: Shards of the Past” on YouTube, created by Star Wars Theory. Star Wars Theory is a popular Star Wars-focused YouTube channel that typically generates revenue from ads. However, prior to the […]
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Can non-US residents form an Anonymous LLC in the US?
March 14, 2017 / by Larry Donahue / Business Formation / 0 comments
We receive this question from many non-US residents interested in doing business in the US, but hoping for some level of anonymity. The answer to this question is the same whether interested in a “standard LLC” or an Anonymous LLC: Yes, non-US residents can own and form LLC’s in the US, whether anonymous or otherwise. […]
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Exhibiting Prudence May Save Your Business
February 28, 2017 / by Larry Donahue / Business Tips / 2 comments
Yesterday, the topic of prudence could not leave my mind. You see, my wife called me at work because she just had to pass on the shocking gossip she had just heard about a local asian cuisine restaurant. She was told, by a friend of hers, that this friend had another friend, who is the […]
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Proper Copyright Licensing is Important
February 14, 2017 / by Larry Donahue / Intellectual Property / 0 comments
Driving to work the other day, I happened to find myself driving behind the truck you see above. Apparently owned (or contracted) by an exterminating company called Manzano Pest Management of Albuquerque, NM. What caught my eye, was the clever little cartoon of the stone-age character pounding little critters with his hammer. Very appropriate for […]
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