**Using Bob Ross's Paintings**

Bob Ross was born in 1942 and presumably began painting some time before hosting The Joy of Painting, which first went on the air in 1983. I'll assume you're talking about using paintings created on his famous show.

If Bob Ross's... View More

The answer is going to depend on what the lease says. I don't think an attorney will be able to assist you without reviewing the provisions of the lease.

If your tenants are still timely paying their rent and have not otherwise breached the lease, the fact that they moved does not give you the right to remove their personal property.

Chapter 42 of the North Carolina General Statutes will be of some assistance to you.... View More

If you want to avoid any legal liability for copyright infringement, yes - you need permission to reproduce those posters. The printing company is probably not the party that needs to grant permission, unless they also created the posters. The artist who created the posters, assuming the artist... View More

The following case may help in your research: N.B.A. v. Motorola Inc. d/b/a SportsTrax, 105 F.3d 841 (2d Cir. N.Y. 1997) (available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/105_F3d_841.htm). I am not your attorney, do not warrant that this case represents the current state of the law, nor do... View More

Opportunities to expunge a criminal record in North Carolina are quite rare. Criminal records eligible for expunction in North Carolina are generally limited to the following three categories:

A first-time, nonviolent offense committed more than 15 years ago

A first-time offense... View More

If you have a copy of a later-executed will, you may offer it to the court.

Testators may say that they've changed their minds on how their assets should be distributed, however, without a valid will detailing those changes - that doesn't have much of an effect.

You would need to consult with your own attorney to determine the best course of action. Your attorney will need to know more details about your application and any errors contained therein before advising you. But, for your information generally:

The U.S. Copyright Office has a procedure... View More

Landlord must provide a tenant with "fit premises" as described in Section 42-42 of the North Carolina General Statutes. http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_42/GS_42-42.pdf

Additionally if you're renting to an active member of the U.S.... View More

To answer whether the sale of your home qualifies for the federal tax exclusion, you should refer to IRS Publication 523 at https://www.irs.gov/publications/p523/ar02.html and talk to a qualified tax professional.

Your sale qualifies for exclusion of $250,000 gain ($500,000 if married... View More

"A 'derivative work' is work based upon one or more preexisting works. . . in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of... View More

Using the creative works (magazine content) of others is copyright infringement. If that work is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, you could be liable for up to $150,000 per work upon which you infringe. If that work is not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, you could be liable... View More

For the purposes of this answer, I am assuming that you mean a business that operates recreational escape rooms:

It would be wise to seek the permission and a license for this use from the owners of those intellectual property assets. If a customer were to think that your escape room were... View More

If you do not have written permission from the creator of the video, using it in the way you described would be copyright infringement. The copyright claimant could sue you. If they registered their work with the U.S. Copyright Office, they could be entitled to $700-$150,000 in damages, in... View More

Copyright law will protect the expression of ideas, that is, the creative organization of words used to write the ideas, but not the underlying ideas themselves.

So, if you want to copying word-for-word from others, you must get their permission before using their work. If you want to... View More

Because Article 1 of Chapter 93A of the North Carolina General Statutes prohibits acting as a real estate broker without a license, that is, it is illegal because there is a law prohibiting the action. If you're asking the policy rationale for such a law, you'd have to ask the North... View More

Violation of copyright law does not happen in a vacuum. If you're concerned that you'll violated copyright law by uploading video taken by your business partner, the simple fix is to ask your business partner for (written) permission to do this. Someone has to enforce their interest in... View More

If you took the photo and uploaded it to Instagram and another user misappropriated the image for their own use, that is copyright infringement. Yes, you could sue, but if you did not register the image with the U.S. Copyright Office, you'd only be entitled to recover "actual... View More

**All copyrightable works published before 1923 are now in the public domain** (these works entered the public domain no later than 1997). There are still two issues to be concerned about before assuming work is in the public domain.

One wrinkle in this blanket statement is that the... View More

Your lawyer is in the best position to determine what claims should be raised in a pleading. You should talk with your lawyer and ask if he mistakenly omitted a claim, or determined, in his professional opinion, that a claim should be omitted.

To answer your question: ask your lawyer if... View More