The first step is to contact them and ask them to stop. If this does not work to your satisfaction, work with an attorney to send a more formal Cease and Desist notice; at this point you may wish to demand payment of real damages. You do have the right to go to court, but it's always easier and often cheaper to handle it directly.
Same way you'd sell anything else on the street.Newsstands are one example of a business selling "copyrighted material" (i.e. newspapers and magazines) "on the street."Note that if you're copying copyrighted material and selling it on the street, you're breaking the law.
Yes, it is unlawful to download copyrighted material without permission.
copyright - means that you do not have permission to copy the material without first obtaining permission from the author and paying them royalties to use their copyrighted material under licence. A trademark is usually a company Logo, or sometimes a slogan either. like Nike's trademark would be the swoosh symbol for example.
If it is copyrighted, then yes. Created by someone that has not copyrighted their material, then no.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Downloading copyrighted material without permission is illegal and constitutes copyright infringement.
Yes, it is illegal to download copyrighted material without permission, even for personal use.
You just did! The design of this webpage is copyrighted and the words you are reading at this moment are copyrighted. However, you have a LICENSE to download them. If you do NOT have a license or other lawful excuse to download copyrighted material, then it would be illegal to do it.
I'm not a lawyer but generally:Depending on the country you are in, everything original that you create should be considered your own automatic copyright. It helps to add the (c) logo and year to your web site to act as a warning to others not to copy your work.If you're talking about business names, they are covered by trademarks and are a different matter entirely.In the United Kingdom, it is also useful to print the copyrighted material out and post it to yourself in an envelope. If the ownership of the work is disputed at some point you'd at least have an official date stamp from the post office to prove when you created the work.So, in a nutshell, yes. Go ahead and say your web site is copyrighted.
Generally when public domain material is reissued, a copyright will be registered for any new material, such as annotation, compilation, etc.