Trademark and Copyright

Big corporations, small business owners, artists, doctors, musicians, and photographers all have one thing in common: they all have intellectual property they need to protect. For example, if you hire a designer to create a logo for your business, you may not own the copyright in that logo unless you have a signed, written “work-for-hire” agreement. When you select a new business name, there may be obstacles to using that name as a trademark in your business. In order to capitalize on modern branding concepts, businesses need to protect business names, product names and designs, service marks, and slogans. We can help with these and a host of other intellectual property issues.

For artists, writers, composers, and performers, your copyright exists in a fixed medium from the moment of creation, but you can’t file a valid infringement claim without a valid copyright registration. Posting your work on the Internet may get you recognition and create a market for your work, but it also increases the risk that it will be copied. If you find unauthorized copies on the web, what remedies do you have under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? If you are being offered a licensing deal to reproduce your work or to perform your composition, what royalties should you receive? When submitting a manuscript to a publisher, can you make changes to their standard form release? We can answer these questions for you.

Our trademark and copyright legal services include:

Our Trademark and Copyright Attorneys:

Anne E. Aikman-Scalese