In the movie, "The Perez Family," there was a scene that featured the band playing something like two lines of the song "I Will Survive" before there was a voice-over. In my screenplay, I have the hero enter a karaoke contests singing "Girl From Ipahema," and if it were made into a movie, he'd b...

We have four questions using the [fair-use] tag, and all of them are questions about fair use of a copyrighted work. All [fair-use] questions are, by definition, going to be [copyright] questions. Is there any objection to setting the [fair-use] tag as a synonym to the [copyright] tag?

I have a nice sideline as a freelance journalist. Obviously editors consider my work good enough on the whole to be worth commissioning, although I'm sure I could do better in many respects. But it must get readers, else I wouldn't keep getting hired. However, there is one thing I know I'm very b...

I am writing my thesis and would like to dedicate it to my parents. However my father passed away while I was studying. I would like to dedicate it to both him and my mother, any suggestions? Is it ok to say "to my loving parents" even though one of them is actually not with us anymore?