Even minor infringements of the law will be severely punished.
Copyright infringement is against international law.
The concept of limited government means less infringement on individual rights and the economy.
Fines range from $750 to $30,000 per infringement, and a prison sentence is available in extreme cases.
Because "fair use" must be proven as a defense to copyright infringement, if it cannot be proven, and there is no other defense, then failure to qualify as fair use will result in the same damages as any other infringement.
The maximum is 10 years, but most infringement cases are settled long before they reach court, for amounts close to real damages.
It depends on the type of use.
That would be a derivative work, which requires a license from the rightsholder of the original work.
Yes, if you use another company's logo that is already registered, it may be considered copyright infringement. The company that owns the logo in question may dispute your use of their logo.
If an infringement case is brought, the financial situation of the infringer is immaterial: they can be sued for up to $30,000 per use in the US.
Infringement limits authors' ability to make money from their works. Part of copyright is the ability to use scarcity to create or sustain demand, but infringement eliminates scarcity.
The reproduction or use of someone else's copyright material without permission or license.Copyright infringement is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.
Depending on how "thinly veiled" it could be judged an infringement of both a copyright and trademark.