Legal Question in Business Law in Illinois

Re: Copyright infrigement

What's your role? Why would you be responsible? What makes you believe that a document is going to protect you from infringing someone's copyright? Either you use it with permission or you don't, and are therefore infringing.

Re: Copyright infrigement

If you are infringing a copyright, even at the request of your client, you can be held liable. Your client cannot agree that you won't be liable; that is up to the copyright holder.

Your client may agree to indemnify you for your losses and attorney fees, but there are two potential drawbacks; (1) your client may be unable to pay your damages, leaving you holding the bag, and (2) even if your client is capable of covering your losses but simply refuses to do so, it is at least possible that a judge would refuse to enforce the indemnity on the grounds that it is against public policy to indemnify a co-infringer for his intentional infringement.

Do yourself a favor. Don't infringe the copyright. A license to use the piece is the way to go.