Copyright protection does not apply to names, titles, common words/phrases, ideas & concepts, as well as processes.
note: Most of the above can be protected by other laws (i.e. patent or trademark) ADDED: See below related lnk;
The copyright holder or an appointed administrator can issue a license.
Yes, if you have a copyright in any country covered under a multi-lateral treaty, such as the USA under the Berne Convention, your copyright must be honored and protected by the laws of the other 160 countries under that Convention.
Under US copyright law, there are no recordings that are public domain; they are either covered under state copyright law prior to 1972, under federal copyright law if published after that, and under federal copyright law if they were never published at all. The only possible public domain records would be some that were published before 1989 and after 1972 without the necessary copyright notice or registration.
For items covered under warranty, the dealer. For items which are not, the person who is making the payments on the car.
Copyright law is US Code Title 17, and fair use is section 107 of it.
The creature may not be protected, but expressions (descriptions, drawings, etc) may be protected.
Under copyright law, a work must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression to be protected. This means that if choreographic works or improvised speeches have not been notated or recorded in any way, they are not covered by copyright. Only once these works are documented in a fixed form do they gain copyright protection. Therefore, unrecorded or unnotated expressions are not eligible for copyright.
There are 24 different copyright-protected items by that name.
If your use is not covered by an exemption in the law, get permission in writing from the copyright holder.
The copyright lasped on the death of David Selznick, but later it was renewed in the USA. It will remain under copyright there until 2045.
It should be assumed that a work is covered by copyright, as works do not need to state it, it is applied automatically.
If you are taking a clip from the movie, the movie itself is protected by copyright, but depending on your use, it may be covered by 17USC107. If you are using a photograph of it, the photograph would be protected by copyright, but your use may be covered by 17USC107.