It's a civil violation of federal law.
Infringement.
"Copyright in fragment" is a common misspelling of "copyright infringement," which is the violation of copyright.
Yes. Copyright infringement of any form is a violation of federal law.
Violation of copyright is called infringement. If the infringement is the distribution of unauthorized copies for commercial advantage or private financial gain, it may also be called "copyright piracy", which is a federal crime.
Innocent infringement is a violation of copyright without willful intent. Accidentally moving an mp3 onto a shared drive would be innocent infringement.
It would be a trademark violation, which is similar.
No. But, in all likelihood it would be a violation of trademark
Yes, except there can be additional charges of fraud if it can be shown that the trademark violation was committed with the intent to defraud consumers.
No. It would not be an infringement of copyright but only because characters are not eligible for copyright protection, only the expression of those characters is.Your drawing would, in all likelihood be a violation of trademark.
The legal term (and concept) is "copyright infringement". This is more accurate, as "violation" is more properly a term for criminal activities, not civil actions, and copyright law is Civil Law (though, unfortunately, there now also exists certain Criminal Laws for certain copyright infringement situations). Specifically, copyright infringement is the copying (in whole or in part) of a copyrighted work without the express consent of the copyright owner of that work. There are specific exceptions to where certain amounts of copying are legal (most prominently, but not exclusively, the "Fair Use" doctrine).
Nothing about it is "legal." Copyright infringement is illegal.
If someone is no stranger to allegations of copyright infringement, it means he gets accused of copyright infringement a lot.