Law Office of Joy R Butler
When Another Company Duplicates Your Tagline
29/05/2018 Your company has been in business and using the same tagline for a number of years. Another company begins using the same tagline. What are your…
Featuring Someone’s Property in a Commercial Advertisement
17/07/2016 If someone features my property in a commercial advertisement without my permission, do I have a legal claim against the person? That’s the query an…
How Selecting Music for a Dance Recital Exposes the Complexity of Music Law
09/05/2017 A dance company plans to use several musical recordings in conjunction with a dance recital and queries whether its use of the music requires a…
Protecting Your Recipes
23/01/2018 Cookbook authors, food bloggers and recipe developers have many questions about protecting, sharing, and adapting recipes. In this blog post, I…
Proof that using Creative Commons material is not risk-free
12/10/2015 One might think that using properly licensed material would guarantee insulation from a copyright infringement lawsuit. Apparently not. At least not…