Trademark monitoring is the process of regularly checking for potential infringement or consumer confusion of your trademark by others.

As a business owner, protecting your brand is one of the most important things you can do. One way to protect your brand is by registering your trademark.

You are correct that you do have copyright protection for your creative work as soon as you create it. This is known as “automatic copyright

Record labels are companies that sign recording artists and release their master sound recordings to the public. They are responsible for the production, distribution, and

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, 2 Live Crew, a hip-hop group from Miami, Florida, faced several high-profile lawsuits over the alleged copyright infringement

Once again, taking a look at regular listening habits can help us to understand what exactly it means to be familiar.  As humans, we find

Trademarks protect the source of the idea.  In your day to day life, whether you are drinking a Coke or going to Disney, you are

The top music distributors have great business models.  The thing about business models is this: when they are great, that means when successful, they are

When Robin Thicke lost the copyright suit that was brought against him by Marvin Gaye’s estate the music industry trembled with fear of repercussions. Many

First things first. Record companies are businesses. They are constructed to be motivated by making as much money as possible for themselves and their shareholders.