How can I Prove that I am the author of something, especially before publishing it on the web? [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2008 - 25 answers

Intellectual property question. A married couple are both coders who have the same software skills (let's say in coding OCR software). One spouse runs Company A (sole proprietorship, OCR software). The other works for Company B which is now contracting with Company C to work on their OCR code, so that spouse is being required by Company B to sign an NDA (no noncompete) which protects Company C's intellectual property. [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 6 answers

Is it in bad form to ask an author directly via email for an electronic copy of a dissertation or non-refereed academic article, if I, as a student, have no other method of access to the resources? [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2008 - 16 answers

I'm working on a site (it's a personal project) where I basically review movies that I like. Lately, I've been thinking about adding video clips from the movies/series to give visitors a better understanding of what the movies/series are about. How do I do this legally? [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 13 answers

What can a free online game do about a domain squatting / potential IP infringement situation, that doesn't involve commercial legal advice? [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2008 - 2 answers

What should I know about trademarks and copyrights before launching a web comics site? [more inside]
posted on Jan 11, 2008 - 5 answers

Need help appraising the intellectual property values of acquaintances, if I do all the work bringing their ideas to market. [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - 5 answers

I have reason to be concerned that source code I am turning in for programming projects at school might be being burgled for the professor's own purposes. I would like to protect my code some way. I am thinking this is a great place for DRM to actually be useful. Anyone have experience with this? What are my options?
posted on Sep 30, 2007 - 18 answers

Has anyone written about what a world without (or with very limited) intellectual property rights would be like? Alternatively, are there other models for encouraging creativity without IP rights? [more inside]
posted on Jan 2, 2007 - 21 answers

The company I work for has expressed interest in purchasing a software product I've been developing privately. How do I go about doing this so I don't get screwed? [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2006 - 9 answers

How could I go about selling an idea to a corporation? [more inside]
posted on Nov 15, 2006 - 9 answers

Who owns the ECU data in my car? [more inside]
posted on Aug 21, 2006 - 15 answers

Legal status of creative works from the USSR. [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2006 - 5 answers

How do I protect myself from someone stealing my idea? [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2006 - 25 answers

BestPrintingOnline stole content from my website, I allege. How do I get them to take it down? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2006 - 12 answers

Is it possible to perform computer analysis to determine the similarities and/or differences between two logos? [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2006 - 15 answers

I'm writing a paper about Classical Chinese norms of authorship disguised as a legal article about Intellectual Property. I'm looking for a citation on the following story: Chinese painters (or calligraphers) would apparently purposefully ruin their authenticating stamps, so that the resulting flaw would result in a harder-to-forge mark. Does anyone know where this is from? [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2005 - 3 answers

AskLegalFilter: As a sort of follow-up to this thread, some friends and I have invented a game and have started to show it to representatives from game companies. There's been some interest, and before we can think about moving forward, I think we have to start with the legal stuff on our end. What sort of legal entity do my friends and I need to become so that someone can license intellectual property (mostly writing, as opposed to a unique style of play) from us and write us checks? And how can we do it for the least cost? Assume that we're more or less equal partners (somewhere between 33/33/33 and 35/35/30).
posted on May 3, 2004 - 11 answers