Copyright and Trademark Law with Gordon Firemark

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News

• US Announces Trade Deal With Mexico In a special announcement from the Oval Office on Monday, President Donald Trump says he will terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and enter into a new trade treaty with Mexico, one he hopes Canada will soon join. 

• DAX Has Announced their 2019 Show Schedule DAX Kansas City will be at the KCI Expo Center, February 22-23, 2019. DAX Minnesota will be back at Treasure Island Resort / Casino April 5-6, 2019 and rounding out the year for DAX will be DAX Chicagoland back again to Tinley Park Convention Center on May 3-4, 2019

Copyright and Trademark Law

Aaron: Start us off with a little more background about you. I loved your story about your last name on your website, so maybe start there and just tell us a little more about you.

Terry: We received a lot of great questions from our listeners so we would like to get them answered in no particular order. Let’s start with… When is a free design not free?

Aaron: Sharing of designs and logos. What if I buy a design on the internet how do I know if I can use it and it has been stolen from elsewhere?

Terry: Can I take my local junior sports team logo or will I still need permission?

Aaron: Where does decorating for a private purpose stop being private and become commercial from a legal standpoint? (Samples etc.)

Terry: How is it that folks selling on ETSY appear to be selling Trademarked goods (Disney, Pro Sports, College, etc.) every day with impunity? The Internet appears to have made enforcement the Wild West. So what is and is not being enforced?

Aaron: How come Disney can use stories that are in the public domain for centuries and transform them and the characters in copyright material?

Terry:  We also got a question about fonts. the Disney font, Star Trek font, Star Wars font, etc. Can these be used to make their own logos and designs?

Aaron: When a designer and the customer are working together on an art project, who owns the art? The designer, the customer or the company paying the designer for their time?

Terry: How do you go about getting a design/saying that goes along with your brand copyrighted? Finding a trademark lawyer? What do we need to do on our end!?

Aaron: Where can people find your Podcast, your Law Practice and how can they put you on retainer?

Gordon Firemark is an entertainment, media and business lawyer who helps creatives, business owners and entrepreneurs to bridge the gap between art and commerce, structuring their businesses and making deals that make good sense. He’s the host of the Entertainment Law Update Podcast, author of The Podcast, Blog & New Media Producer’s Legal Survival Guide, and the developer of three online training programs for: theatre producers, law-podcasters, and digital entrepreneurs. At home near Los Angeles.. he too is a regular guy… putting family first.  He has a superhero of a wife, three beautiful children, three cats, a dog and a mortgage.

• Clearing-House (all my various projects and courses) can be found at http://gordonfiremark.com
• YouTube channel: http://firemark.tv
• Law Firm is at http://firemark.com
• Podcast:  http://EntertainmentLawUpdate.com

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