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What can I do about another author using my pen name, which is my name?

Answered 12 years and 4 months ago by Todd A. Sullivan (Unclaimed Profile)   |   1 Answer   |  Legal Topics: Intellectual Property
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If you can show that this author is using your name to reach your customers and/or siphon your sales, you may have a case based on a tort with the Unfair Competition family of torts. If the person in Thailand just picked a name at random and it happened to be the name you use, you probably don't have a case (although doing more research may change my analysis). I don't think you would need explicit evidence that this person in Thailand is attempting, but you would want to look at the type of book or market in which they are selling to show that this other author is trying to pass themselves off as you.... Read Answer
If you can show that this author is using your name to reach your customers and/or siphon your sales, you may have a case based on a tort with the... Read Answer

I am starting a new website and I was wondering what legal limitations do I have towards posting pictures and quoting words from other sites.

Answered 13 years and 8 months ago by attorney Hilary B. Miller   |   1 Answer   |  Legal Topics: Intellectual Property
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As a general matter, photographs that you did not create yourself are the copyrighted work of another and may not be copied or used for commercial purposes without the permission of the copyright owner. The same generally applied to textual works of authorship.
As a general matter, photographs that you did not create yourself are the copyrighted work of another and may not be copied or used for commercial... Read Answer

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