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60,259 | 1 | 2021-01-18T10:28:24.667 | 0 | 66 | 2021-01-18T12:36:55.910 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I would like to include images from the web on my personal website(non-profit & non-commercial use), how do I say that the images are not mine and they belong to their respective owners? does this relate to this
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for 'fair use' for pu... | copyright | Using Images from the Web for personal use |
6,217 | 1 | 2016-01-06T18:40:28.533 | 1 | 794 | 2016-04-15T21:31:16.550 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Is it legal to post dark web exploration videos (e.g. exploring virtual drug markers without buying anything) on YouTube without any trouble (I live in Europe, Estonia to be specific)?
And clearly I'm not going to buy anything, just "exploring". So does anyone know? I'm pretty sure I saw series like that by OrdinaryG... | internet | Dark web youtube videos - legal to post? |
24,365 | 1 | 2017-11-24T18:49:29.677 | 2 | 168 | 2017-11-24T19:34:44.963 | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Much of what I have been reading points to ISPs being allowed to *throttle*, ie. *slow down* access to certain "competing" websites and services.
If current "net neutrality" laws were to be repealed, would ISPs be legally allowed to completely block access to, or otherwise censor, such "competing" websites and servic... | internet | Would the end of "net neutrality" legally allow individual ISPs to block access to/censor sites and services? |
7,455 | 1 | 2016-02-29T21:42:12.853 | 0 | 56 | 2016-03-01T00:20:19.183 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Axanar is a fan made movie of Star Trek in preproduction, whose producers are being sued jointly by Paramount and CBS for copyright violation. When every news coverage article I found failed to question the applicability of copyright for the case, and [at least one](https://www.thewrap.com/why-star-trek-fan-film-produc... | copyright | Why there seems to be a case on CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar? |
30,674 | 1 | 2018-08-02T18:26:14.197 | 0 | 150 | 2018-08-02T19:49:36.770 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I was trying to cancel my gym membership because I had a surprise surgery that put me out of physical activity for a few months, and I couldn't leave the house for one month, but they told me that no matter what I need to come in to cancel without exceptions.
Can they say this? Now they're trying to charge me for the... | contract | Canceling gym membership while in recovery |
13,249 | 1 | 2016-08-10T00:08:28.643 | 5 | 1,393 | 2017-03-27T03:17:46.570 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I was wondering what laws, if any, restrict donating money to criminals who have committed crimes which you support and want to encourage (lets assume the motivations are not necessarily so explicitly stated).
Musings:
On the one hand this seems basically the same as paying someone to commit a crime.
But on the other... | criminal-law | Giving Someone Money Because of a Criminal Act? |
22,516 | 1 | 2017-09-09T08:58:08.527 | 3 | 1,262 | 2019-01-21T23:28:08.150 | 3 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Do the GDPR Regulations apply to processing data of a citizen who has dual nationality?
| privacy | GDPR: Citizens with Dual Nationality? |
9,594 | 1 | 2016-05-30T22:35:56.103 | 1 | 32 | 2016-05-30T22:35:56.103 | 0 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | There is a Website (for the sake of discussion) called www.maxgrav.com. The site has no content except a landing page (with no discussion on what the product is), which hasn't changed since 2011. The MaxGrav logo shows to be Trademarked (R) (though a search in USPTO showed no results). And supposedly there is a MaxGrav... | trademark | Can I use a (undeveloped) trademark or business name as part of a longer name for my business? |
15,414 | 1 | 2016-11-22T11:34:00.613 | 0 | 155 | 2016-12-25T17:47:54.240 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have just resigned from my current company and I briefly mentioned I have unused annual leave left to take.
They have told me, it is company policy to pay leaving employees for unused annual leave, and thus their preferred option is that I do not take my remaining annual leave.
Is this enforceable in the United K... | employment | Can a company disallow taking annual leave during a notice period? |
2,057 | 1 | 2015-08-26T21:58:42.327 | 2 | 608 | 2015-08-26T21:58:42.327 | 0 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I would like to create an application/website which is automating some processes on another website A. So my application would basically use website A like a normal user would (there is no API available).
Is offering an application like this considered illegal? Since I would not have a permission from website A to do... | software | My app uses another website. Is it legal? |
6,666 | 1 | 2016-01-27T17:50:07.563 | 2 | 247 | 2016-11-15T17:39:58.250 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I'm opening a business via the e-residency program with Estonia. I am a United States citizen and reside there, as well. Who should I file taxes with?
| tax-law | I'm a US citizen opening a business in the EU: where do I file taxes? |
38,373 | 1 | 2019-03-24T04:58:24.270 | 3 | 618 | 2019-03-26T21:07:32.037 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I've been wondering about this. I know that, say, it is generally a crime to file a false police report, and the motivation for this seems logical because that it wastes police time and resources - and thus takes them away from being able to spend them on real leads, and thus also to degrade the public safety by that l... | criminal-law | Is it a crime to falsely claim to have committed a crime to someone not a legal authority? |
11,337 | 1 | 2016-07-02T12:23:47.517 | 1 | 5,880 | 2022-05-02T18:37:20.597 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I am planning to build an online web app and a mobile app for learning vocabulary.
Functions:
- User can create lists (eg. personalities, phrasal verbs etc.) and add words to the list with definitions.
- These list can be made public.
If users were to copy dictionary definitions, for instance Oxford or Cambridge) a... | copyright | Copyright infringment: using dictionary definitions |
7,559 | 1 | 2016-03-03T22:04:51.940 | 1 | 133 | 2016-06-18T21:14:15.083 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | The story of the [monkey who took a selfie](http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/09/25/382768.htm) is, by now, probably widely known. Summary: a court said that the owner of the camera is not entitled to rights because the picture was taken by the monkey, not the human.
My question is the following: I s... | intellectual-property | On the intellectual property of animals, a story of monkeys and cats! |
74,978 | 1 | 2021-11-30T23:53:10.663 | 2 | 59 | 2021-12-01T14:11:09.773 | 3 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | How is damage calculated when infringing a copyright? I am seriously wondering how it's calculated. Let's say someone post an image he found on Google without attribution on facebook or reddit, then how would the damage be calculated? I am thinking the case would be rejected, because those images that don't have any wa... | copyright | How is damage calculated when infringing a copyright? |
57,052 | 1 | 2020-10-10T15:09:01.223 | 0 | 30 | 2020-10-10T15:57:20.580 | 0 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 1. Last year a client signed up for a yearly subscription of my product. He paid 14,99 € with 19 % taxes included.
2. This year the taxes are only 5 %.
How much does the client pay?
Why I asked: PayPal demands 14,99 € of my clients (I benefit of the tax reduction) and Stripe demands only 13,23 € (the client benefit... | tax-law | Who benefits of a tax reduction in subscription businesses? The company or the client? |
47,299 | 1 | 2019-12-10T05:40:39.523 | 0 | 93 | 2019-12-16T01:12:01.237 | 0 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am wondering whether an employer can hire two people under the same job title and pay but deny them equal working conditions.
For instance, it is common practice for Walmart to hire customer service associates under a vague job title, and thereafter assign more dangerous tasks (stocking heavy products) to the more... | employment | Does VII help employers oppress workers, or are there other laws that compensate? |
46,416 | 1 | 2019-11-13T14:47:38.433 | 0 | 110 | 2019-11-14T21:25:01.793 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Please give me legal, black-and-white answer.
Winklevoss Twins say someone stole their idea for Facebook and Judge awarded them some millions.
But how could have Winklevoss Twins protected themselves from being cheated in the beginning.
What legal things could they have in place so
1. They are not cheated to be... | intellectual-property | How Could the Winklevoss Twins Have Legally Prevented Anyone from Stealing their Facebook Idea |
38,519 | 1 | 2019-03-28T10:14:32.863 | 2 | 208 | 2019-04-29T16:18:51.547 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | So I've been reading through the new copyright directive proposal and saw the pastiche exemption.
So take this hypothetical:
I forgot how anime.js worked to animate something.
I find a piece of example code on Stack Overflow that shows how it works to initalize it and to animate something to the left and then fa... | copyright | When I am inspired by code on Stack Overflow, and make workable code on basis of that code, is that also pastiche? |
21,509 | 1 | 2017-07-27T02:49:38.310 | 1 | 340 | 2017-09-25T11:51:42.630 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | If A and B are in a contract, with B liable to A, and a third party C takes over the liability of B to A without the consent or involvement of B, is the contract between A and C legal?
I tried looking under 'assignment' but can't seem to find any precedent for this situation.
| contract-law | Taking over liabilities/debt without consent |
9,215 | 1 | 2016-05-13T11:36:02.783 | 0 | 79 | 2016-05-16T01:14:41.923 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | RED.com makes digital cameras for the cinematography industry and has tradermarks for "RED".
I would like to sell a product called called "something.red". The name of the product would be the domain name, something.red, .red is a gTLD recently introduced.
The product is not a digital camera, but a video transmissio... | trademark | Usage of trademarked generic top level domain |
13,148 | 1 | 2016-08-05T07:32:12.583 | 2 | 93 | 2016-08-05T10:16:27.300 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | My photographer's standard contract asserts ownership of all the images she creates, and allows me to create prints for personal use. But she also says she will delete all images 3 months after supplying them to me electronically. I will hold the only copies. Does she still own them even though she chose to discard the... | copyright | Does an author retain copyright of a work they have deleted? |
78,914 | 1 | 2022-03-28T11:33:05.830 | 20 | 4,255 | 2022-04-15T07:27:26.653 | 5 | 10 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In movies, it is often the case that we see police decline to proceed with a case because the victim "refused to press charges". Recently we saw this with the battery of Chris Rock by Will Smith on global TV that the LAPD refused to bring charges on as no complaint was made.
In my jurisdiction (Australia) law enforce... | criminal-law | "Pressing charges" - is it needed to bring a charge? |
22,974 | 1 | 2017-09-29T12:20:17.410 | 0 | 452 | 2017-09-29T19:49:19.563 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | If someone were to start using a trademarked company name with the word 'not' in front of it would it infringe their trademark?
e.g. a company is called 'foo' and their name is trademarked and another company comes along and calls itself 'not foo'.
| trademark | Is it trademark infringement if you put the word 'not' in front? |
51,293 | 1 | 2020-05-05T21:07:13.593 | 0 | 44 | 2020-05-05T21:07:13.593 | 0 | 6 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Im building a simple website where people can save links and eventually share them with others.
When a user enters an url, I fetch the meta data to present the link.
The text, like title and description, Im just saving in a database however Im in doubt what I should do with the image.
Should I just always deeplink... | copyright | How to legally serve og:image |
35,634 | 1 | 2018-12-24T19:59:22.337 | 1 | 213 | 2018-12-26T23:17:16.110 | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | What can bind a party to a contract other than executing it by signing it by hand or electronically and delivering it? My question is only about this element in making a contract, not consideration or other elements. The other topic cited mentions that signing per se is not required, but something is, and therein is my... | contract-law | alternatives to other party signing a contract |
41,739 | 1 | 2019-06-04T14:14:00.913 | 0 | 116 | 2019-07-04T00:11:54.520 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I have had a Limited company UK contract, with an Agency and worked at their end-client.
After working for a few months, my role was suddenly terminated by the client (i.e. the end client, no reason given in writing). But she told (in writing ) that - they will be paying for the full notice.
It seems that - my agency... | contract | Notice period fraud |
57,318 | 1 | 2020-10-20T20:58:52.920 | 0 | 68 | 2020-10-21T14:36:59.967 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | "There is no refunds with this purchase. If you are a mentor or are affiliated with any other trade teams you will be removed and will not be refunded if found. Legal action will be taken on any members that share our content. Vertex Investing are not financial advisors, Following trade ideas and trading in general doe... | business | How specific must a contract be? |
23,438 | 1 | 2017-10-19T07:21:48.163 | 0 | 40 | 2017-10-19T10:24:50.667 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have no background in law.
I capture drone footage as a hobby, and want to license it to my local church for use in some of their non-commercial video productions. I want to ensure that they are not allowed to resell it, distribute/share it, use without permission etc etc without obtaining permission from myself. ... | copyright | Writing a license agreement for my stock footage - where do I start? |
74,574 | 1 | 2021-11-15T20:45:14.740 | 2 | 94 | 2021-11-15T22:47:02.120 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Let's say I make a website, using my own words, and simple facts (We will call it Simple Math, so the article is about the basics of adding and subtracting, and the facts are math facts).
As I make this website, I pay close attention to make sure that I am not copying mathsite1.com. After I publish the site, mathsite... | copyright | What happens if I unknowing copy an article in the US? |
17,255 | 1 | 2017-02-20T22:28:43.823 | 4 | 454 | 2017-02-21T02:44:34.487 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | We were just having a discussion whether [Lush's naming of a mouthwash as "Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster"](https://uk.lush.com/products/new-products/pan-galactic-gargle-blaster) is benefiting from the popularity of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, which led to the intellectual property concerns behind this. My... | intellectual-property | Can you trademark a proper noun from a work of fiction? |
36,055 | 1 | 2019-01-09T21:09:40.003 | 0 | 109 | 2019-01-09T21:42:28.300 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I'm a copywriter with a flair in creating games for children.
I'm working for hire to create a board game in the lines of Monopoly without using any of their copyrighted terms like "Go to jail" etc. The format is the same with 9 steps on each side and four square zones for special situations. And some play money (or... | copyright | Copyright laws regarding using the suffix of an established Brand name |
79,912 | 1 | 2022-05-05T03:30:18.970 | -2 | 200 | 2022-05-05T09:25:42.197 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The girls then uploaded a video of him being held down naked to Youtube and they weren't prosecuted, why is this?
<https://web.archive.org/web/20110604124555/https://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2011-06-01/Online-video-shows-Fort-Myers-boy-being-bullied>
| criminal-law | In 2011 two 14-year-old girls held an 11-year-old boy down and stripped him completely naked |
64,176 | 1 | 2021-04-17T00:40:36.797 | 1 | 46 | 2021-04-17T08:26:36.667 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [The San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings took place between February 12 and March 11, 2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_2004_same-sex_weddings), and were then “voided” on August 12, 2004.
But OBERGEFELL v. HODGES voids the voiding...
Could these couples have been prosecuted for filing single for ta... | constitutional-law | Were there retroactive changes to CA marriage laws about same-sex couples? |
66,526 | 1 | 2021-06-04T19:59:44.593 | 0 | 115 | 2021-06-05T14:11:52.937 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Stack Overflow (the owner of the Stack Exchange network) has been sold to Prosus.
Once the deal closes, does that means that "Stack Overflow" no longer exists as a company? Is the Stack Exchange network then just a product that Prosus now owns and operates, or does Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange still exist as a separ... | business | Stack Overflow has been sold to Prosus. Does it still exist as a separate legal entity? |
62,183 | 1 | 2021-03-18T03:44:37.740 | 4 | 151 | 2021-03-19T18:55:23.107 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The [Emoluments Clause](https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/emoluments_clause) of the Constitution bars people holding office from *accepting* a title from a foreign state. But what about a pre-existing title? If, say, the President appointed a Duke to head the Department of Education, or if an otherwise-qualifying Count w... | constitutional-law | Could a person with a noble title take a federal office without abdicating that title? |
24,611 | 1 | 2017-12-06T22:08:18.597 | 0 | 59 | 2017-12-07T02:50:40.743 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In various nerdy gaming communities, it's common for folks to produce higher quality tokens, play mats, and such containing artwork from the games. And some people will sell some of their works to basically pay for their hobby.
Question 1: If someone digitally copies an image and prints it on a play mat without permi... | copyright | Reproducing game art in various forms for personal use and/or selling to friends |
43,128 | 1 | 2019-07-23T21:51:23.603 | 0 | 76 | 2019-07-24T20:43:34.373 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I'm trying to start an app in the skin care category. I'm trying to come up with names, and one of the ones I'm considering is `Bree`.
However, when I search USPTO for "Bree", I see a ton of results: <http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4809%3Aux0o5h.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plura... | trademark | Trademarks: Can I start an app if an unrelated trademark already exists? |
49,490 | 1 | 2020-02-27T21:35:00.103 | 0 | 85 | 2020-02-27T21:48:12.457 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If I find a meteorite do I get to keep it? Does it make a difference if I find it in my own lawn or on public land? I am especially interested how law is in European countries.
| civil-law | If I find a meteorite do I get to keep it? |
55,720 | 1 | 2020-08-27T13:55:29.293 | 39 | 12,727 | 2020-09-11T03:13:42.020 | 4 | 6 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am writing a software license myself before I hire a lawyer.
Is it legal to copy a software license text from other companies to write my own?
I could not find anyone talking about the copyright of the software license itself. But many software licenses have the same text.
I found this post ([Is it legal to cop... | licensing | Is it legal to copy a software license text from other companies to write my own? |
39,088 | 1 | 2019-04-13T17:43:05.603 | 1 | 109 | 2019-04-13T20:13:48.580 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Several times has happened that the definition of mental disorders/ psychological-psychiatrist therapies/theories have been proven wrong. Yet they have been applied over people causing them problems and harm in their lives. Usually graduated psychologists/ psychiatrists are ignorant which is the supposed proof of these... | criminal-law | Who would be legally responsible for the application of mainstream wrong psychological/psychiatrist therapies? |
57,040 | 1 | 2020-10-10T00:40:36.427 | 0 | 34 | 2020-10-10T00:57:57.373 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am a bit confused on what would constitute as an offer.
Is telling someone that they will be paid for their work at either $Y or $X be an offer?
Would replying to this invite and choosing $Y be acceptance?
| contract-law | offer in contracts |
26,373 | 1 | 2018-02-26T16:57:30.060 | -1 | 57 | 2018-02-27T02:48:58.987 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I'm currently looking to trademark a product name for my company. Through research, I've found that another company is selling a similar product under that name with no trademark whatsoever. Is it possible that I can continue to trademark my product name and have the right to send them a cease and desist; so that I may... | trademark | Trademark infringement, cease and desist |
18,405 | 1 | 2017-04-13T21:38:54.927 | 0 | 83 | 2017-04-14T00:47:41.443 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I want to gather data on a catalog of types of products.
For example, lets say cars. I want to scrape a website (that is itself a catalog of information) for the different make and models of cars, parts, etc. All information that is factual and not opinion based or intellectual at all.
Even if they have a terms of se... | intellectual-property | Legal to scrape data from a website if the data is not intellectual property? |
43,595 | 1 | 2019-08-10T22:21:13.397 | 1 | 27 | 2019-08-10T22:21:13.397 | 0 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am writing a book on best practice branding for entrepreneurs and want to demonstrate my points using well-known (as well as our own client) logos.
The logos will be used for illustrative, educational purposes and shown in a good light. I can put a line at the start of the book explaining that the use of the logo d... | trademark | What are the laws on showing another company's logo in my book on branding? |
29,852 | 1 | 2018-06-28T14:28:41.303 | 1 | 450 | 2018-06-28T15:22:59.017 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I was recently charged a $5 fee in error by a California based tech company. I disputed the charge via app and they issued me a “refund” in credits for future use of their service. I have not been able to contact the company in regards to getting my payment method refunded. I’m upset at this shady business practice, be... | business | Is it legal for a company to erroneously charge you and refund you in credits? |
75,057 | 1 | 2021-12-03T23:47:29.660 | 0 | 55 | 2021-12-03T23:47:29.660 | 0 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | According to [IRS](https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/substantial-presence-test), I was never a US **tax** resident.
But there is a US bank that thinks I'm a resident in the US. I didn't update my info after leaving. I did fill out W8. I also filled out after leaving, not sure if they received my... | tax-law | Can being categorized as a `US resident` by the bank make me a tax resident in CA or US? |
32,125 | 1 | 2018-09-30T11:34:10.797 | 3 | 167 | 2018-12-16T12:03:10.627 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My friend is facing the following problem:
Her boss left the computer open and she then looked at his screen, where the salary of a coworker at her level (who since has left the company) was displayed. As his salary was considerably higher than hers; she was shocked and told a coworker about it, and also to her boss ... | employment | Seeing a co-woker's salary on his screen |
50,609 | 1 | 2020-04-10T14:22:19.660 | 1 | 27 | 2020-04-10T14:28:45.047 | 0 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Let's assume that I publish a German translation of a book in the public domain (because the author is dead for 70+ years) that hasn't been translated so far.
Do I own the copyright for the translation or is the translation automatically also in the public domain? Moreover, is someone else able to publish another tr... | copyright | Can I own the copyright for a translation of a public domain book? |
74,540 | 1 | 2021-11-14T22:27:43.730 | 2 | 71 | 2021-11-15T20:54:02.563 | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Let’s say I want to create a website that helps people troubleshoot a topic. I get my facts and information from site A, and use that info to write my own articles (Not copying word for word, but stating the same ideas).
Site A has this policy: "Any duplication or use of images, diagrams, or text, or other electronic... | copyright | US Copyright Question |
18,136 | 1 | 2017-04-02T20:59:43.613 | 3 | 115 | 2017-04-03T09:31:33.890 | 0 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I'm creating a Christian game with KJV quotes which will be printed and published -via self-publishing- in the US. I understand the KJV is in the public domain worldwide, except for the UK. Could I have a problem if people from the UK bought the game and it was sent to them from the US?
| copyright | If the KJV is still in copyright in the UK could I have a problem if people buy something quoting it from the US? |
22,554 | 1 | 2017-09-10T23:16:44.313 | 1 | 170 | 2017-09-11T19:27:33.763 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In other words. if some evidence (but not conclusive) exists of somebody else comitting a crime, can a defence lawyer use this when representing their client?
For instance, in the Glen Sebastian Burns and Atif Ahmad Rafay case, where the two were accused of murdering the latter's parents, there was an FBI informant tha... | criminal-law | Can a criminal defence lawyer talk about the possible guilt of other suspects when defending their client? |
33,138 | 1 | 2018-11-03T02:48:21.290 | 1 | 619 | 2018-11-03T13:43:33.907 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | As I understand it, Hitler's book *Mein Kampf* was originally copyrighted by Hitler, but, after the war, the Allies gave the copyright to Bavaria. (Was this legal? I guess I should post that as a separate question.)
I just learned that Bavaria's copyright expired in 2016. I'd like to learn if there are any English tr... | copyright | Public domain English translation of Mein Kampf |
22,549 | 1 | 2017-09-10T20:45:34.430 | 0 | 82 | 2017-09-21T14:28:20.667 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | We live and work in Boston, Massachusetts. I work for Company A in computers and my wife for Company B in medicine, both of us with clauses for intellectual property ownership in our employment contracts. Hypothetically, if I had a medical patent idea generated solely by me, would I need to take any precautions before ... | intellectual-property | Any protections or precautions for discussing a patent idea with my spouse if she has IP clauses in her employment contract? |
3,740 | 1 | 2015-09-17T06:21:44.180 | 8 | 611 | 2017-11-12T20:15:51.643 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Hypothetical Facts
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1. U.S. company ("***A***") hires Canadian worker ("***B***") [to work as an unpaid intern](https://law.stackexchange.com/a/3739/794).
2. ***B*** never physically leaves Canada and does all her work by telephone, computer and internet.
3. ***A*** has a physical presence in the U.... | employment | Are U.S. employers subject to Canadian employment law if they hire a Canadian to work remotely? |
26,411 | 1 | 2018-02-27T17:25:28.610 | 1 | 1,722 | 2018-02-28T02:23:13.780 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In the USA, suppose party A offers a contract to party B, who signs and returns said contract to A. The contract is a single document that has a few "sections" that each have a place to sign to show acceptance of that "section".
Now suppose that before any material action is taken by either party to proceed with the ... | contract-law | Does a subsequent signed version of an amended contract/offer override previous signed versions? |
19,099 | 1 | 2017-05-22T16:52:44.767 | 3 | 124 | 2017-05-22T18:19:38.880 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I recently joined a large IT company, before joining I had concerns with my contract, it states that they own all rights over what I create (from ideas, software, you name it).
I love making my own games, and I have a game I've worked on for over 2 years (long before I joined their company), so I did not like this p... | intellectual-property | Signed a contract with employer stating they own all my IP; they sent an email saying its only for competing products. Should I be worried? |
8,731 | 1 | 2016-04-22T16:44:45.070 | 1 | 628 | 2018-05-18T23:08:48.663 | 2 | 7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Mainly I'm interested in getting to know my ancestry, but I don't mind doing a lot of research on my own to classify it if I get raw results.
The thing that I do not want is my DNA being stored somewhere, or something associated with my name in any way stored anywhere. Is there a way to avoid that and just get the on... | privacy | How can I get my DNA tested without the results being kept by third-party? |
36,809 | 1 | 2019-02-02T16:02:23.107 | 2 | 24 | 2019-02-02T16:02:23.107 | 0 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My brother and I bought a house together. I own 60% and he owns 40% (this is on the deeds). I live in the house and he does not. I have two lodgers living with me, who pay rent.
Typically one is allowed £7500 tax free lodger income if you live in the house. If you are joint owners you are supposed to split this 50-5... | tax-law | How to split Rent-a-Room scheme tax exemptions with joint owners |
6,544 | 1 | 2016-01-22T10:07:02.173 | 0 | 72 | 2018-10-12T00:32:19.937 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | As I understand, J.K.Rowling owns right for characters, story, special words (like "muggle"), and so on. Warner Bros. has exclusive right to make movies based on the original books/stories.
[Here](https://www.quora.com/How-would-I-go-about-acquiring-the-licenses-to-produce-Harry-Potter-related-merchandise) is a disc... | copyright | How to shoot a movie based on Harry Potter fan fiction? |
78,593 | 1 | 2022-03-15T13:51:52.303 | -1 | 80 | 2022-03-15T20:04:01.993 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Sav.com had latency in the month of October. Therefore, Domains were not posted in my account, but the amount debited from the credit card. The same is accepted in written correspondence by sav.com that I had no active domains in my account + they have also confessed that domains for which they have charged my credit c... | intellectual-property | Credit card charged but domain not booked by a domain registrar where should I go against an International Merchant |
3,640 | 1 | 2015-09-14T14:46:10.817 | 3 | 129 | 2015-09-15T08:26:35.103 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | A standard way to license something under the GPL, is to grant a license to the "GPL version 3 or later", meaning that the recipient receives a license under the license terms of the GPLv3, or at their choice any later version of the GPL.
I have been told that in the EU, or at least Germany this is impossible because... | licensing | Legality of "Version x or later" licenses |
61,390 | 1 | 2021-02-22T00:12:51.023 | 0 | 86 | 2021-02-22T01:21:13.890 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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> 2. The expression 'warranty' legally signifies? Please select all that apply.
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1,639 | 1 | 2015-08-05T01:57:33.343 | 31 | 21,927 | 2020-08-03T21:22:09.770 | 3 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | From the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) on the trolley problem:
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> There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead,
> on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The
> trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance
> ... | criminal-law | What is the legal take on the trolley problem? |
73,897 | 1 | 2021-10-22T19:47:33.837 | 3 | 34 | 2021-10-22T19:47:33.837 | 0 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Inspired by [this article](https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2021/10/19/auto-break-in-theft-retail-rewards-tourism-sfpd.html), how exactly is it determined who gets the bounty? Surely the police get many tips, do all informants get paid? Is the bounty split or do they all get the full amount? If it is split... | criminal-law | When bounties are offered for information leading to a conviction, how is it decided who gets it? |
23,102 | 1 | 2017-10-04T11:36:43.583 | 1 | 449 | 2017-11-22T15:40:58.207 | 2 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | My employer has recently undergone a number of changes internally, involving the move to different premises (with the argument about the new building being larger, however will accommodate roughly the same number of staff as the current building will occupy). As part of this, they have sent around an update to the empl... | employment | Employer forcing everyone to sign new contract which significantly affects working hours |
46,757 | 1 | 2019-11-22T19:46:24.230 | 1 | 126 | 2019-11-23T01:13:29.080 | 3 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Recently, [a vegan customer sued Burger King because a plant-based burger he bought at a Burger King franchise was cooked on a grill also used for cooking meat](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50486664).
This got me thinking: who would usually be liable for this sort of case?
Would it be...
* the franc... | liability | Who is liable when a consumer sues a company? |
49,638 | 1 | 2020-03-03T22:02:47.023 | 0 | 358 | 2020-03-03T23:20:17.473 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My husband and I would like to complete a remodeling job on our home. The relationship between us and the contractor has gotten tense as there are many errors that need correction. We have sought estimates for repairs from other contractors. Before the original contractor will approve the estimates to be deducted from ... | contract-law | Contractor v homeowner. Disparagement clause |
56,497 | 1 | 2020-09-21T07:52:22.057 | 4 | 103 | 2020-09-27T01:39:18.743 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | So I've heard some people (even in media, I think) say that in the United States, there's some law (or regulation) about digital/technology companies saying that they must provide access to their users' information to the government (i.e., a backdoor) no matter what. But I can't find any reliable references to that. Ca... | privacy | Is there a US law requiring companies to provide the government with access to their users' information? |
24,259 | 1 | 2017-11-20T21:24:00.913 | 1 | 71 | 2017-11-22T20:20:00.233 | 2 | 5 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | We are using some of my pre-existing, personally copyrighted open source software libraries at my employer. Recently they have asked me to "fix" the copyright so that it is theirs.
I have no objection to them owning a version of the code, i.e. that they own the copyright to, however I want to retain the ownership and... | copyright | Can I assign a 2nd copyright to my employer |
27,755 | 1 | 2018-04-18T13:46:57.650 | 4 | 239 | 2018-04-19T04:33:52.147 | 2 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Granted, they screwed up: yesterday was the deadline for filing income tax returns, and the IRS web site for e-filing crashed for half a day. Because of that crash, the Secretary of the Treasury has announced that the deadline has been extended by one day.
Does the IRS have the legal authority to make this change?
| tax-law | Does the IRS have authority to extend the filing deadline? |
74,751 | 1 | 2021-11-21T16:00:04.397 | 9 | 3,379 | 2021-11-21T17:40:33.893 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | A theoretical company existed which used to be registered in the United Kingdom and has since been dissolved.
The company was a SaaS(Software as a service) company.
The code was written by **Person A**, who was a minority shareholder director of the company.
There was no copyright, trademark or other license on t... | software | Who owns the software created by a dissolved startup company? |
13,954 | 1 | 2016-09-13T13:58:59.873 | 0 | 2,348 | 2016-09-13T15:24:13.667 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have been in a number of discussions, which the other party described the contract terms verbally in a way to convince me to proceed with the contract. I want to ask if this is not fraud, and how to handle such situations. To clarify the point, what I mean is for one of the parties to state a definition of the terms ... | contract | Is it illegal to misinform someone about the terms of a contract |
58,458 | 1 | 2020-11-23T09:09:37.753 | 1 | 103 | 2020-12-27T21:50:35.777 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | This question is with respect to tax law in India(you may also answer with respect to USA).If someone makes a software then popularizes it .The person has invested RS 100000 in making tghe software and RS 10000 on popularizing it.Now a person buys the software for Rs 10000000.The software developer files an income tax ... | intellectual-property | How is value of intellectual property decided? |
33,074 | 1 | 2018-10-31T19:29:58.857 | -2 | 986 | 2019-04-17T18:12:59.790 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I'm a freelance web developer and I entered into a contract with a client in August 2018. The contract was set to end and product delivered by October 5 2018. However, due to the client changes in ideas and work in progress, we went way past that end date and now I am only going to deliver the final work in 2 days.
... | contract-law | Can I amend a contract after end date |
52,187 | 1 | 2020-06-09T02:02:30.763 | 12 | 3,598 | 2021-09-20T21:20:22.503 | 3 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am planning on writing a book that happens in a universe separate from Dungeons and Dragons universe but I want to have a character be a Kenku.
I know that they are copyrighted for use in other RPGs. But what about in books? Would I just have to change the race name, but can I keep all the attributes? The Kenku is ... | copyright | Is it possible to use creatures from an RPG (like Dungeons and Dragons) in writing a book without infringing on copyrights? |
53,224 | 1 | 2020-07-14T14:52:58.157 | 0 | 231 | 2020-07-23T14:06:00.467 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In many countries of the European Union, abortions are performed on women after knowledge of down syndrome in the embryo. In some countries this disease has almost disappeared from the population. And according to MIT news in recent months, we are now on the verge of being able to detect other diseases such as some for... | constitutional-law | Is abortion of children with Down's syndrome legal in EU? |
8,415 | 1 | 2016-04-09T03:40:48.543 | 3 | 453 | 2018-11-29T19:01:35.207 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | This all happens in Minnesota.
Employee E worked for company A and had standard noncompete agreement. Agreement has an assignment clause assigning rights to any successor. Company B buys most business units of company A and hires most employees. Seller of A starts new company N. E stays with seller of A and works fo... | employment | Noncompete, nonsolicit, nondisclose agreement company that was sold. But wait, there's more |
19,130 | 1 | 2017-05-23T11:25:59.547 | -1 | 67 | 2017-05-27T13:51:44.797 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | If a contract contains both of the following clauses, how do they not contradict each other?
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> 24.3 Each party agrees that it shall have no right or remedy (other than for breach of contract) in respect of any statement,
> representation, assurance or warranty (whether made negligently or
> innocently) other th... | contract | How to reconcile waiver and liability terms of a contract? |
45,895 | 1 | 2019-10-27T20:44:32.237 | -2 | 144 | 2019-10-27T23:20:05.823 | 1 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Let's suppose that a person, who has no longer anything to lose and willing to drag an innocent along with him, sends money to an innocent via bank, calls the innocent person by telling them "I sent you the money for [such and such illegal act]" and hangs out immediately and blocks the innocent's number.
The innocent o... | criminal-law | Hypothetical scenario in which an innocent person is involved and dragged in |
67,169 | 1 | 2021-06-28T22:05:41.000 | 3 | 1,218 | 2021-06-29T01:15:18.987 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If I contract a company from the U.S. is the contracted company bound by U.S. laws and also how can we insure that this company can be sued within the U.S. jurisdiction if they are located outside of the country. How does that work exactly?
| contract-law | Legal issue when contracting a company outside of the U.S |
43,556 | 1 | 2019-08-09T14:12:52.413 | 1 | 59 | 2019-08-09T14:35:13.913 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Is there a legal term or definition to use in an appeal when a lower court judge has set an impossible standard of evidence in his decision? In a property tax appeal,a judge has ignored higher court precedents and extrapolated other decisions to effectively eliminate the possibility of proving a non uniform tax assessm... | tax-law | What Remedy When a judge sets an impossible standard of evidence? |
5,139 | 1 | 2015-11-10T20:41:53.553 | 35 | 7,113 | 2015-11-11T17:25:21.193 | 1 | 12 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I was just informed of this situation that occurred somewhere by a co-worker, and was wondering what the legal ramifications are (U.S. Law). To be clear, the scenario is as follows:
* I tell my boss I've been offered a position at another company.
* My boss later comes to me with a counter offer of a raise, if I choo... | employment | Do I have legal rights against a company that offered me a raise to not leave, and then promptly fired me after turning down the other offer? |
56 | 1 | 2015-05-27T02:39:05.263 | 20 | 1,277 | 2015-06-08T19:00:37.950 | 3 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 
Often, when I watch TV shows, I'll see or hear about an imitation of a real brand name.
As an example, here is a parody of Walmart from The Simpsons
The store in the picture is unambiguously supposed to represent Walmart. T... | intellectual-property | Is there a legal reason why fictional shows use imitation brand names? |
7,453 | 1 | 2016-02-29T21:06:52.567 | 0 | 95 | 2016-10-20T15:20:34.610 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have the permission of the authors to create an audio version of a book published in 2015. The audio version would be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
The book is published by [Routledge](https://www.routledge.com/) under the following conditions:
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> © 2015 selection and editorial material, Giacomo D... | contract-law | Am I allowed to create an audio book from a printed book published by Routledge? |
6,862 | 1 | 2016-02-02T15:46:59.030 | 1 | 350 | 2016-02-02T20:32:03.367 | 4 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Hypothetical situation:
Miss X, a software developer with 10 years of experience, has obtained a new job. On her first day she logs into her desktop computer and the operating system requests that she chooses a password.
A few minutes later her line manager comes to talk to her and asks her to write the password to a... | employment | Can my manager request my password? |
18,672 | 1 | 2017-04-28T21:25:09.657 | 0 | 70 | 2017-04-28T23:00:27.427 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Suppose I have a firm named Blue. I signed a contract with a firm, named Green, to manage our fleet of motorcycles. The contract states "Green shall solicit and negotiate contracts with qualified independent contractors approved by Blue owners for repairs to the property motorcycles".
Does that statement prevent our ... | contract-law | Does "shall" in a contract preclude the other party from performing a task? |
58,934 | 1 | 2020-12-05T19:43:15.983 | 1 | 92 | 2020-12-06T20:56:06.850 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | So if I lend a friend/family like 5k$, do I have to pay tax on that money when my friend/family pays it back to me?
A more concrete example: my brother in the USA would send us let's say 5k$ for some stuff. He's in the USA and we're in another country (Romania). After we send the 5k$ back, will he have to pay tax bac... | tax-law | Do you have to pay tax on money received after a friend/family repays money you lent them? |
55,566 | 1 | 2020-08-21T20:23:06.147 | 0 | 149 | 2020-08-23T06:48:50.370 | 3 | 8 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Some time ago, a few people set up a fundraiser to solicit private people to give money to fund a government project that was *not* meant as a gift to reduce the debt of the public. The campaign went sideways (embezzlement and fraud in the inducement are alledged), but I am more interested in the original idea, which I... | constitutional-law | Is it legal to give money to the Federal Government to fund specific projects? |
55,476 | 1 | 2020-08-19T11:08:31.840 | -1 | 95 | 2020-08-19T20:46:00.093 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | this question is for the jurisdiction of the united states, Washington state, pierce county, tacoma city.
i am planning to sell some stuff on a phone app called "offer up" and one of the main features of the app is that it can show you items that are for sale within driving distance, and as such, you can drive to peo... | criminal-law | If i sell something on a web app, can i be held liable if they pay with a counterfeit bill and i take it to the bank? |
53,629 | 1 | 2020-07-26T03:41:06.393 | 0 | 55 | 2020-07-26T06:38:24.200 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Apparently the Ronald Reagan Institute claims to own Ronald Reagan's image and [claims the ability to prevent the use of his image for commercial gain](https://www.chron.com/news/article/RNC-Trump-campaign-told-to-stop-using-President-15434408.php).
I am pretty sure I am allowed to sell pictures of George Washington,... | intellectual-property | At what point does a dead person's image enter the public domain? |
18,106 | 1 | 2017-03-31T20:41:49.413 | 3 | 2,339 | 2018-07-01T04:59:22.980 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I play this online web browser game, and I created a bot that I use to automate in-game actions. Of course using scripts/bots is prohibited in game rules and leads to banishment if detected.
So my question is: legally speaking, is it illegal to sell this bot to other players? Or charge them a monthly fee for using it... | software | Creating Online games bots |
7,062 | 1 | 2016-02-11T04:54:34.793 | 2 | 1,734 | 2016-02-11T22:41:54.927 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I've Googled this question but I haven't found any exact details or reliable sources.
I'll keep this as broad as possible so the question isn't specific to my situation but I will answer any questions that are needed to give context if the answer depends on situation.
If a client were to pay a business $X for a se... | business | Can a business legally pay employees per project? |
447 | 1 | 2015-06-08T19:06:27.990 | 4 | 77 | 2015-06-08T19:06:27.990 | 0 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I am a student just doing some freelance work over my summer break. I call myself a web "designer" as people in my country are more used to that term when they want a website created. I develop websites according to my client's needs using free GNU licensed themes. I let my clients know that I use free templates and do... | copyright | Web Developer Portflolio Using Themes |
43,965 | 1 | 2019-08-21T19:56:05.260 | 0 | 477 | 2019-08-21T19:56:05.260 | 0 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I live on a private non-city-maintained road. There are ~30 houses, and I'm roughly in the middle, it's a dead end road. There's no HOA and since we get snow there's one neighbor who has done the job of asking everyone to chip in for snow plowing, and then another neighbor got a quote for repaving and most of the resid... | civil-law | Speed bumps on private non-hoa road (California) |
78,354 | 1 | 2022-03-07T15:35:13.003 | -7 | 107 | 2022-03-07T22:58:32.240 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I just watched John Oliver's latest show on "Wrongful Convictions". And boy oh boy was my opinion of the US justice system way too generous! And if the US justice system was this bad, imagine the situation in other countries!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYYdCzTpps>
Wrongful Convictions: Last Week Tonight with... | criminal-law | Is the concept of "rule of law" just a bad meme? |
28,367 | 1 | 2018-05-10T09:00:25.103 | 2 | 866 | 2019-11-22T23:30:20.537 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on this for me please. I've been doing alot of research about GDPR lately and how it is going to effect my websites using Google Analytics.
From what I can understand, any website which uses Google Analytics needs to first get the users consent before storing a cookie on th... | privacy | GDPR - What's classed as an opt in for Google Analytics cookie and do I need to do it? |
40,497 | 1 | 2019-04-27T14:45:17.897 | 0 | 58 | 2019-04-28T21:21:34.130 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | We just awarded a new janitorial services contract and sent a termination letter to the old contractor. The old contractor produces a near 10 year old agreement/contract signed in 2009 with an automatic renewal provision signed by a previous HOA director that only had the authority to obligate the the Association for o... | contract-law | Is Automatic renewal of Custodial Contract signed 10 years ago by board member that only had one year authority enforceable? |
45,512 | 1 | 2019-10-14T21:58:08.927 | 1 | 66 | 2019-10-15T01:04:20.003 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | As an employee of a software company they own my personal time projects, this is not in question. That said, my employer is quite reasonable about said things and at least verbally quite willing to review something and say "this isn't related to our work, you can have it."
It being a small shop, verbal acknowledgemen... | intellectual-property | Resources for assigning employee intellectual property back? |
22,182 | 1 | 2017-08-24T21:48:09.920 | 0 | 47 | 2017-11-23T00:41:13.280 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I want to create a website in UK where people can share what they pay for rent at the address they currently stay. This would be community-driven and work like glassdoor (a website for sharing your salary). It would help tenants decide if a landlord is asking too much and landlords to decide their rental price.
Would... | privacy | Sharing rent information |
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