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71,340 | 1 | 2021-09-01T02:39:58.830 | 0 | 128 | 2021-09-01T06:43:55.503 | 1 | 9 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I'm trying to comfortably use my laptop at night and now could not find an answer by web-search to the following: Why TVs / laptops etc. do not warn about too bright screen whereas many smartphones warn about too loud sound amplification? I'm asking on law site cause I suspect there were a number of successful lawsuits... | civil-law | Why TVs / laptops etc. do not warn about too brirght screen whereas many smartphones warn about too loud sound amplification? |
37,797 | 1 | 2019-03-03T04:13:06.187 | 2 | 41 | 2019-03-03T05:06:51.043 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [This earlier question](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/37775/can-pricing-be-copyrighted) asked whether a pricing scheme could be copyrighted. I wonder if pricing could be trademarked.
Suppose Christopher Columbus Pizza was famous for selling a large pizza for $14.92. Can they obtain a trademark on $14.92 to ... | trademark | Can pricing be trademarked? |
49,810 | 1 | 2020-03-11T18:25:47.843 | 0 | 57 | 2020-03-11T20:50:33.587 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am in full term employment in the UK. My notice period set out in my contract is 3 months. There is no probation period (I know this is unusual). I have only been working for 10 weeks and have handed in my notice. My employer is insisting I work for the full 3 months to hire my replacement. There is someone else in m... | employment | Long notice period when in employment a short amount of time in UK |
36,822 | 1 | 2019-02-03T15:18:57.717 | -2 | 68 | 2019-02-04T15:53:38.200 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I will go straight to the point, I already read the terms I looked for some information on the issue of licenses I looked at sites but nothing, I did not understand anything is that I have a project that is totally done by me, but I want anyone who dares to share or do something to dump the credits on me, what license ... | licensing | I have doubts about the Github licensing issue |
16,737 | 1 | 2017-01-29T03:17:46.047 | 0 | 698 | 2017-01-29T23:49:02.127 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Can a customer of mine waive negligence caused by me when doing any business activity on assets/property? What if the property belongs to someone else, but I state that they take all responsibility as well? Provided that I am specific and the waiver is clearly written, is it enforceable? Can this replace the need for g... | liability | Can a contract waive negligence in Ontario, Canada? |
53,257 | 1 | 2020-07-15T14:32:12.587 | 1 | 90 | 2020-07-15T20:57:16.653 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am from India and when i did some research i found out that there are some big and well established companies in the field of windmill installation for electricity generation like Vestas India, GE Wind Energy Ltd.etc.
I have developed a product for renewable generation of electricity and want to start a startup, bu... | intellectual-property | How can i compete legally with the large firms in the below mentioned scenario? |
45,954 | 1 | 2019-10-29T15:00:22.737 | 0 | 1,729 | 2019-12-30T04:04:20.443 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | So for instance, could I develop an energy bar and market it as the “Houston Bar”?
Or even just have a bar with “Houston” on the packaging that was self evidently a bar.
| trademark | Are towns and city names trademarked? |
11,278 | 1 | 2016-06-29T00:47:30.940 | 3 | 128 | 2017-05-12T00:25:32.360 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In the US, two speakers have a public debate. It is free of charge to all who show up at the public venue. No one is paid anything but (possibly) expenses such as travel. Any additional expenses for the debate like venue rental are paid for by a third party. There was no contract or verbal agreement regarding money bey... | copyright | Copyright on public debate |
47,022 | 1 | 2019-12-01T19:55:20.150 | 0 | 98 | 2019-12-01T23:01:51.057 | 3 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If a person makes a story up and doesn't copyright it can anyone copy it and then copyright it themselves?
| copyright | What happens if a story is not copy righted |
67,923 | 1 | 2021-07-21T07:46:27.620 | -2 | 146 | 2021-07-23T08:30:01.047 | 1 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I work for a EU organization internationally,
They have had my previous passport on file for more than a year, but it has expired last year: They are now requesting I send them my **new** passport "to update the employee profiles"
Due to Covid, I am currently in a different country than the one I was hired in (I migh... | employment | Can employer force me to handover my updated passport? |
44,760 | 1 | 2019-09-17T01:58:11.910 | 1 | 171 | 2019-09-17T17:07:16.970 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I participated in Google Summer of Code and received a stipend from Google. I worked with volunteer mentors associated with free/open source projects not associated with Google in any direct way.
[Google is clear that there was not an employee/employer relationship with them](https://developers.google.com/open-source... | tax-law | Does receiving a stipend for participating in GSoC constitute self-employment? |
59,807 | 1 | 2020-11-22T08:10:46.957 | 4 | 40 | 2021-01-04T21:13:55.387 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | As the title says. I'm writing guide and reference books (Amazon short-reads) aimed at people who aren't tech-savvy with the goal of improving their tech literacy. I've seen books like the one linked below which are guides to an existing product that don't seem to come with any sort of official seal of approval. I'm wo... | copyright | What are the license/legal requirements to write a guidebook about a specific product? |
33,572 | 1 | 2018-11-16T21:05:47.913 | 2 | 521 | 2018-11-16T22:49:02.623 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My friend wants to make a 'risk table', which would have the risk board carved into it, as part of a larger game board challenge. He would be making all the pieces and the board himself.
I'm wondering if he can do this legally, assuming he stops using the word Risk? The game mechanics can not be patented, so in that ... | copyright | Can I recreate the Risk board game for personal use? |
32,330 | 1 | 2018-10-06T02:11:45.507 | -2 | 156 | 2018-10-08T14:31:29.250 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | as the question suggest. I've built a scrapper which scraps two websites to get property listing from there. As someone told me to scrape other website is illegal. but I think the listing ad of property is not a property of website. so I can scrape it.
can someone tell me it is legal to get others property advertism... | copyright | Is it legal to copy property's listing from other's website |
1,996 | 1 | 2015-08-23T13:46:42.623 | 8 | 323 | 2015-08-24T13:00:01.860 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I want to start an online browser game following all laws.
A few days ago I heard of [COPPA - Children's Online Privacy Protection Act](http://www.coppa.org/). In this link, they clearly explain in all details what must be done, and what kind of website must comply. As a person that knows (absolutely) nothing about l... | internet | How to make sure my website complies with things like COPPA? |
895 | 1 | 2015-07-02T21:45:12.137 | 0 | 70 | 2015-07-03T22:15:44.583 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Apparently they got it from archive.org. They made no changes to the page except to throw in some links, fitting them into the context so it will look natural to a crawler. They neglected to remove the visitor counter, that's how I found out.
They even left the copyright notice I had on the page.
They're using my i... | copyright | Some link building service got an old webpage of mine and is hosting it on another domain |
55,281 | 1 | 2020-08-13T23:00:00.933 | 0 | 69 | 2020-08-19T19:36:33.343 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | How can a monograph focus when **[3]** "a defendant is culpable for taking an unjustified risk with the interests of others", but not **[1]** "whether risking the interests of others itself should be criminalised or **[2]** "justifying risk-taking"? In other words, can you kindly distinguish more clearly 1, 2, 3? They ... | criminal-law | Culpablility for taking an unjustified risk with the interests of others v. Criminalisation |
22,117 | 1 | 2017-08-22T13:46:40.707 | 1 | 69 | 2017-08-23T16:18:55.807 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | The Economist is a weekly magazine, where articles are never signed by authors. Is it then enough that the magazine itself is in the public domain? I have come across posts like [this one](http://www.publicdomaintreasurehunter.com/2009/07/19/how-to-tell-if-a-magazine-is-in-the-public-domain/) stating that individual ar... | copyright | Copyright for unauthored articles in The Economist |
42,286 | 1 | 2019-06-20T22:26:02.697 | 1 | 71 | 2019-06-20T23:36:35.587 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Are there case law examples where a reseller was forbidden to publish the name of the item being resold?
For example suppose a computer reseller acquires a used computer made by HALCO, model HAL-9001 (fake brand and model).
Can HALCO stop the reseller from publishing the brand and model, perhaps in an ad, on their ... | trademark | Are there case law examples where a reseller was forbidden to publish the name of the item being resold? |
29,372 | 1 | 2018-06-09T17:07:40.630 | 0 | 382 | 2018-06-09T20:05:10.653 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I know that land sale contracts, for example, have to be in writing in most jurisdictions. **What other kinds of contracts legally have to be in writing to be enforceable?** (US jurisdictions preferred but any jurisdiction acceptable).
| contract | What contracts have to be in writing? |
6,011 | 1 | 2015-12-23T17:30:40.690 | 2 | 1,810 | 2020-07-12T01:52:38.943 | 4 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | **Background:**
Recently, some cards for an upcoming Magic the Gathering Set(trading card game) were leaked to the public a month before Wizards of the Coast(the company that makes Magic) intended to tell the public about the cards.
There's a lot of controversy in the Magic community right now, about these leaks, ... | intellectual-property | When is reposting company secrets illegal |
74,529 | 1 | 2021-11-14T11:51:50.137 | 0 | 49 | 2021-11-14T20:01:08.213 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I have been helping a nonprofit by developing a piece of software that they needed. The software is more-or-less built to their specs in a "functional" way, but I wrote 100% of the code: they are not programmers.
Anyhow, we didn't make any kind of contract at the beginning verbally or otherwise. Who owns the copyrigh... | copyright | Copyright: Idea vs Execution? |
47,297 | 1 | 2019-12-10T00:25:34.600 | -1 | 38 | 2019-12-10T02:39:12.170 | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Basically the title, I want to create a tool that makes what I think are derivative works (word clouds made of other peoples words).
If I wasn't selling the works could I profit off ads next to them?
Or alternatively, since I technically only created the tool that makes them, not the works themselves, could I sell ... | copyright | Am I allowed to make derivative works and profit off of ads next to them, not the derivative works themselves? |
70,354 | 1 | 2021-08-03T00:24:08.240 | -4 | 94 | 2021-08-03T09:40:59.107 | 2 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Can the board of a company invest in bitcoins without the consent of the shareholders? Is it allowed in privately owned companies as well as publically traded companies and in what situations can the shareholders sue the company for it? I see people suing company for losing money in stocks, so I am wondering if it appl... | civil-law | Can the board of a company gamble on bitcoins without the consent of the shareholders? |
61,583 | 1 | 2021-02-28T05:33:52.917 | 1 | 566 | 2021-03-13T12:30:14.190 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Davies. *JC Smith's The Law of Contract* (2021 3 ed). p. 478 is part of the Glossary.
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> Obligee a party to whom an obligation is owed.
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44,505 | 1 | 2019-09-08T14:49:36.220 | 0 | 65 | 2021-01-31T00:07:55.853 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My question is, what is required under UK law to assign the benefit of a debt or small contract, to a third party. Although it relates to an actual dispute, the question itself is simply about legal process and facts of law - no advice is sought or needed beyond that posed in the question. Therefore I am also abstracti... | contract-law | Requirements for assignment of debt or benefits of contract to a third party, in UK law |
30,156 | 1 | 2018-07-11T11:11:08.317 | 0 | 42 | 2018-07-12T20:55:53.227 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | You often see websites or documents (user manuals, in particular) stating something similar to:
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> This program is compatible with the Windows(R) operating system.
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> ...
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> Windows is a registered trade mark of Microsoft.
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> Intel(R) Core(TM) i7(TM) processors which feature the BLAH i... | trademark | What is the legal base / requirement (if any) for trade mark notes? |
73,548 | 1 | 2021-10-09T19:56:09.707 | 4 | 132 | 2021-10-11T00:38:21.810 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The EU court recently ruled that the EU copyright directive:
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> Article 5(1) of Directive 91/250 must be interpreted as meaning that the lawful purchaser of a computer program is entitled to decompile all or part of that program in order to correct errors affecting its operation, including where the correction con... | software | Does the recent EU court ruling allowing decompilation of lawfully purchased software for bugfixes permit removing game DRM if it slows down the game? |
37,091 | 1 | 2019-02-10T19:26:31.077 | 1 | 266 | 2019-02-11T05:57:14.200 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | is it legal for employers to ask for social media handles in job application or pre-employment forms? If it is unrelated to the job?
I understand for jobs like marketing, modeling etc. where a large social media following increases the cash flow, in that case it makes sense to ask for the handles as the person will b... | employment | Is it legal for employers to ask for social media handles? |
8,727 | 1 | 2016-04-23T05:58:57.100 | 0 | 28 | 2016-04-23T06:45:33.917 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Can a well-known, general, legal rule(s) of law overrule a claim made within a terms of service agreement that a customer has agreed to?
Something along the lines of "the claim was rejected because they were not acting in good faith". Is there a name for this concept?
An example would be appreciated.
| contract | Can a general rule of law be used to reject a claim made within a signed service agreement? |
75,341 | 1 | 2021-12-15T14:14:06.787 | 0 | 45 | 2021-12-15T20:51:56.503 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | There's [a simple contract template](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/contract-killer/) going around design and development communities that includes this clause:
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> Although the language is simple, the intentions are serious and this contract is a legal document under exclusive jurisdiction of English and ... | contract-law | Which country should have exclusive jurisdiction in a simple software development contract? |
28,284 | 1 | 2018-05-07T02:02:40.920 | 0 | 114 | 2018-06-08T00:32:36.923 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | As someone who is not a lawyer and needs to sign contracts, I often find the conventional writing style as an instrument to justify the inclusion of clauses that represent a client/provider relationship as if it actually were a master/slave one. This is noticeable in cases where a small company intends to sell its serv... | contract | Is the usual contract writing style being questioned and a radically new one proposed? |
13,604 | 1 | 2016-08-24T16:15:15.900 | 2 | 580 | 2016-09-02T17:28:12.463 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have an app that I want to call "Donald Trump". Now that Donald Trump is a political figure, is it okay to name my app after him (first amendment)? Or does he have a trademark or something over his name? I don't want to get sued but I'm wondering if his political status allows me to use his name openly.
| trademark | Can Donald Trump sue if I use his name in my product name? |
52,537 | 1 | 2020-06-19T21:40:56.667 | 3 | 274 | 2022-01-14T05:03:10.333 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In Canada, if **person\_a** creates a copyrightable work, and then later **person\_b** creates (without copying **person\_a**'s work) the same work, do both **person\_a** and **person\_b** have copyright, or does only **person\_a** have copyright? Answers on [this American post](https://www.quora.com/If-two-people-crea... | copyright | If the same content is created by more than one person without copying, do all authors have copyright, or just the first author? |
939 | 1 | 2015-07-06T09:44:48.437 | 5 | 1,074 | 2015-07-06T16:57:32.923 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In the past, copyright terms have been repeatedly extended, and some people have called for extensions that would effectively make copyright eternal, such as terms of 10.000 years or "forever minus one day".
If a law were passed today in the United States extending copyright from its current term of "life of the auth... | copyright | What would happen if copyright were extended (almost) indefinitely? |
25,769 | 1 | 2018-02-01T22:28:46.443 | 0 | 63 | 2018-02-20T18:35:43.697 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | We are a sports website covering news and have found a user on YouTube copying our written content and images and pasting it in whole in their videos.
We have put in a copyright claim and got some videos taken down but they have put in a counter claim saying it is fair use and they will Sir is if we don’t remove the... | copyright | Copyright claim / fair usage |
46,536 | 1 | 2019-11-17T01:17:16.813 | 1 | 46 | 2019-11-17T01:59:12.713 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Creative Commons offers a series of licenses, some of which allow people to use your images commercially, while others prohibit commercial usage.
I have some images that lie somewhere in between. I don't want people selling them as postcards or putting them on mugs, T-shirts, etc. for sale. However, I do want people ... | copyright | Semi-Commercial Image License |
29,620 | 1 | 2018-06-19T04:38:25.483 | 1 | 96 | 2018-06-19T04:46:20.730 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If you watch the commercial you'll notice that the half eaten Reeses cup is imitating a (Mr.) PACMAN eating the Reeses pieces as Pac man pellets. In the nature of the game, Pac man is constantly making turns to avoid ghosts and consume all pellets. In the commercial the Pacman look alike never makes a turn.
<https://... | copyright | Reeses "Game Changer" commercial: Copyright infringement |
65,258 | 1 | 2021-05-25T00:57:55.107 | 17 | 1,982 | 2021-05-26T04:52:04.983 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | When a court strikes down a federal/state law or state constitution as unconstitutional, can the legislature just leave that unconstitutional provision on the statute book as long as the executive does not enforce it, or is there an obligation to repeal the unconstitutional provision? I have been reading US state const... | constitutional-law | If a law or state constitution is struck down as unconstitutional, is there an obligation for the legislature to repeal it? |
39,284 | 1 | 2019-04-21T04:48:16.007 | 0 | 154 | 2019-09-04T04:24:27.850 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Why's "warranty" coupled with "representation", not 'condition'?
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In [Canadian](https://renx.ca/representations-v-warranties-are-they-different-do-you-know-the-difference/) and [English](https://mundays.co.uk/insights/to-warrant-is-not-to-represent/) law, representations differ from warranties1. Thus... | contract-law | Why 'representation or warranty', not 'representation or condition'? |
22,406 | 1 | 2017-09-04T02:59:44.960 | 0 | 100 | 2017-09-07T00:29:13.260 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Let's say an internet provider (ex: Comcast, At&t, Verizon) says to their users: Hey we have this new free internet access, however, by using it the end ad content will be changed to our liking -for example they can change Ad Units to show their ads or inject ads into content.
What are the legal repercussions here? I... | internet | Can an internet provider replace content of websites if the end user is aware of it? |
47,850 | 1 | 2020-01-01T18:46:10.990 | 1 | 101 | 2020-01-01T19:07:41.773 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am paying a girls bills who has a restraining order against me, is it stalking/harrasment to pay her bills when she won't contact me?
| criminal-law | Is it stalking to pay someone's bills? |
67,110 | 1 | 2021-06-26T23:28:20.627 | 2 | 296 | 2021-06-27T19:40:44.740 | 4 | 11 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Can Hawaii secede from the U.S. through legal means or is it forbidden by U.S. law? I am asking, because I doubt the U.S. would accept the result of a referendum that rules that the Hawaiians want to secede from the U.S. just like Russia or China wouldn't accept it.
| constitutional-law | Can Hawaii secede from the U.S. through legal means? |
31,621 | 1 | 2018-09-09T12:46:15.900 | 7 | 198 | 2018-09-13T18:26:21.637 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Data controllers must delete the users' personal data if they are asked to do so, according to the GDPR, except in some cases that don't really apply here. But what if that personal data has ended up somewhere else on the internet, maybe on a search engine like Google, or maybe in multiple places that might even be dif... | internet | GDPR and personal data that gets crawled and ends up on other websites |
39,108 | 1 | 2019-04-14T14:15:37.507 | 19 | 6,299 | 2019-06-01T01:31:07.960 | 4 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Currently, the only charges form the British side against him are, that he avoided the criminal procedure (he was, on the British law, a fugitive) by his "visit" on the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Meanwhile, the British police has spent £11million.
Now consider the case if he wouldn't be extradited to the U.S on some reaso... | criminal-law | What would be Julian Assange's expected punishment, on the current English criminal law? |
32,337 | 1 | 2018-10-06T13:37:38.447 | 2 | 90 | 2018-12-20T19:40:40.210 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I was wondering about the phrase ["time is of the essence"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_is_of_the_essence). This compares to other time constraints such as "reasonable time" and "time at large."
My understanding of "time is of the essence" suggests that all the deadlines set forth in the contract must be met, ... | contract | What are the different time requirements under law? |
1,985 | 1 | 2015-08-23T05:21:17.627 | 11 | 1,742 | 2015-08-24T22:53:36.663 | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Let's say I create a computer program that randomly chooses words and records them. Now, this generator spits out an exact word-for-word copy of a non-public-domain book.
If I publish this (without knowing it's a copy), would I be in violation of the original book's copyrights? What if I could reasonably prove that ... | copyright | Is a randomly-generated book a violation of copyright? |
56,769 | 1 | 2020-09-30T03:05:56.553 | -1 | 62 | 2020-09-30T05:02:21.817 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I have made a 3d model of APPOLO IE car. The model doesn't contain any kind of logo of appolo. I want to use the model for a animation which I would upload on YouTube. Would I violate any law related to copyright by doing this?
| copyright | Would it be copyright infringement to use a 3d model of appolo ie Without appolo's logo |
44,777 | 1 | 2019-09-17T11:09:26.717 | -1 | 81 | 2019-09-25T00:50:57.343 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If a developer creates Android and IOS applications that use YouTube API, what limits are legally applicable?. Suppose the applications will get videos from YouTube, then will manipulate these videos, accelerating, slowing down, playing only certain interval, etc.
1. If the apps have ads, is there any copyright probl... | copyright | Manipulating YouTube videos in mobile application |
64,149 | 1 | 2021-04-16T12:52:51.873 | 1 | 85 | 2021-04-16T13:12:31.737 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Let's assume that Hacker Corp. offers a penetration testing service to other businesses, and ACME Corp. contacts Hacker Corp. to conduct a penetration test for some internal testing.
Hacker Corp. requires ACME Corp. to sign a "Permission to Attack" document, which outlines that Hacker Corp. is allowed to attack a spe... | contract-law | Can a company claim they acted in good faith in this situation? |
62,079 | 1 | 2021-03-15T18:06:52.803 | 1 | 147 | 2022-01-10T16:54:02.760 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | When I passed a security camera in the house i'm currently in, while watching Netflix on my phone, I wondered how legal that would be, considering that you are not allowed to make copies or photos of the content within, but the CCTVs purpose is not to record stuff on Streaming sites.
I was just curious if that would ... | copyright | Can you show Netflix to CCTV? |
14,055 | 1 | 2016-09-18T14:52:36.690 | 2 | 115 | 2016-09-18T21:43:07.940 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Kumaran develops novel lampshades. In January 2016, he developed a new lampshade.
On 1 May 2016, he emailed Bobby and Chew, both wholesalers, to whom he had previously sold lampshades. In his email, he asked each whether they would be interested in becoming the sole distributor of his new lampshade.
On 5 May 2016, ... | contract-law | Are contracts legally bound when acceptance is mailed, or only once received? |
25,181 | 1 | 2018-01-08T18:49:16.507 | 0 | 424 | 2018-01-08T23:28:45.237 | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | This is going to be a long question:
I'm working on creating a company to stream the latest and greatest movies that haven't reached Netflix yet. In order to do this, my plan is to buy, say, 10 Harry Potter DVDs, and rip one of them. We will then monitor how many people are streaming it and limit it to 10, the number... | copyright | Is it legal to stream DVD? |
12,094 | 1 | 2016-08-03T08:03:16.000 | 1 | 78 | 2017-01-18T02:10:23.823 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | There is [a mobile game](http://www.discgolfbasketstore.com/1025-discgolfgame/) that has TM written behind its name.
It is built for iOS and has not been updated for years. I would like to create a new and better version of it, for all operating systems, also maybe commercialize it and make free and premium version.
... | trademark | What rights does a trademark actually give? |
51,072 | 1 | 2020-04-28T14:41:26.480 | 5 | 420 | 2020-04-29T18:43:21.143 | 2 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My question is a hypothetical one. I was conducting some research into the differences between murder, homicide and manslaughter and I didn't understand the difference between homicide and manslaughter. Let's say there are two friends walking down a busy street, teasing each other. One of them playfully pushes the othe... | criminal-law | Would killing a human by accident (without any premeditation or intent) be considered homicide or manslaughter? |
2,223 | 1 | 2015-08-31T21:50:30.850 | 28 | 5,179 | 2020-12-21T09:42:33.713 | 4 | 12 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | My browser is saving a copy of the web pages I visit on my computer. How is that not copyright infringement?
[in this answer](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/1805/copying-html-copyright-violation/1808#1808) I read:
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> I would hazard a guess that displaying an HTML webpage online is implicitly allowing ot... | copyright | Why does browser cache not count as copyright infringement? |
67,593 | 1 | 2021-07-11T14:03:18.983 | 0 | 138 | 2021-07-11T17:40:29.397 | 2 | 27 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | *Before some people get all worked up, the question is being asked in the context of modding.*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_piracy>
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> Video game piracy is the unauthorized copying and distributing of video game software, and is a form of copyright infringement.
>
>
>
Okay, so at least in one (... | copyright | How is videogame medium protected by copyright in practical terms? |
5,821 | 1 | 2015-12-14T23:33:04.980 | 2 | 1,292 | 2015-12-15T00:02:22.157 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have been accused of a crime, and the police informed me of such. However, I have not been charged. They have told my lawyer that I am under investigation but haven't given any more info.
Is there any limit as to how long I can be "under investigation" for until either I must be charged or the investigation has to ... | criminal-law | Canada - how long can a person be under investigation? |
48,428 | 1 | 2020-01-23T22:31:13.110 | 1 | 104 | 2020-01-28T09:18:58.287 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | What happens if the person of the second 'not allowed' contract sues me for breach of contract? Or if the person of the first contract sues me? Is the second contract nullified? Is the term of the first contract not allowing the second nullified?
| contract-law | If I enter into a contract that a previous contract I entered into says cannot be entered, what happens next? |
15,940 | 1 | 2016-12-20T07:13:27.530 | 3 | 862 | 2016-12-22T11:38:26.623 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have several old records and casettes of pop music albums some of which are damaged. While I am the legal owner of the recorded media, I do not own the copyright. I understand this.
Does purchasing the record or casette give me the right to listen to the music, and if so, could I legally download and listen to son... | copyright | Can I legally download an MP3 version of songs on a record or casette that I purchased but is now damaged? |
7,964 | 1 | 2016-03-23T19:44:37.190 | 0 | 39 | 2016-03-23T22:38:39.047 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Lets say I design an entertainment app and when I finish the app I realize that there is a lot of fowl language and want to use a GNU library for something like checking for curse words.
Would using a library as such be a problem legally for selling my product later? (or having it as a closed source project)
| copyright | GNU GPL license question |
27,876 | 1 | 2018-04-22T13:24:14.740 | 1 | 86 | 2018-04-22T18:44:27.290 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In many different situations, people will have an incentive to lie in court while the other parties cannot verify whether they are lying or not.
I'm wondering whether there are techniques that can be used to (relatively robustly) incentivize people not to lie, even though what they say cannot be verified/falsified. ... | criminal-law | What are techniques used in law to robustly incentivize people to tell the truth? |
4,128 | 1 | 2015-09-30T15:26:24.767 | 7 | 1,020 | 2015-10-01T01:38:50.787 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Let's say you're in California talking on the phone. Would it be legal to record just your part of the conversation without having approval from the other party?
For example, could you set up a recording device on the desk and have it recording what you're saying during the whole conversation assuming it's not sensi... | privacy | Would it be legal to record only yourself on a phone call without the other party giving consent in California? |
29,333 | 1 | 2018-06-07T16:24:12.063 | 1 | 4,965 | 2019-04-24T14:19:53.207 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In the following video, the narrative is that the police asked the young man to switch off his phone. He refused. They asked him to sit down. He refused. They then used violence to put him on the ground: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-QLZNTjqOQ>
Do people have to comply with a policeman's order to sit on the grou... | criminal-law | Can the police require you to sit if you are not under arrest |
35,759 | 1 | 2018-12-29T05:27:42.157 | 0 | 656 | 2018-12-31T03:56:09.440 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Basically, can I find a popular meme online and use it in a video-game that I am making money off of without giving credit or royalties to the creator / owner as often these are hard to find and people using these memes is so common.
For example, there is a grumpy cat meme picture at <https://i.stack.imgur.com/fzJBP.... | internet | Are memes fair use |
53,779 | 1 | 2020-07-30T13:18:30.113 | 2 | 178 | 2021-01-14T14:10:31.590 | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I live at Iran. I would like to know if downloading films, like Hollywood films, via internet is illegal, if I don't pay money to the owner?
I'm asking because I read [this](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb7k8j/its-illegal-to-pirate-films-in-iran-unless-youre-the-government):
>
> Iran's copyright law does no... | copyright | Does copyright law apply if I download films in Iran? |
6,255 | 1 | 2016-01-07T23:40:07.137 | 2 | 32 | 2016-01-07T23:40:07.137 | 0 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I run a small software consulting company. It is organized as a LLC in California, filing as an S-Corp.
I want to start a second business, but something unrelated to computers. I will need to purchase equipment to start the new venture.
Can I simply make this a new division of my existing company, and write off the... | tax-law | Can I write off equipment purchases for unrelated business |
77,371 | 1 | 2022-01-27T14:05:20.953 | -1 | 80 | 2022-01-27T23:50:14.720 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | A book author, who normally writes his or her content through many experimentations. Can I produce a content (video/webinar or others) based on the book and claim money for that content ? What does law normally say about it?
| copyright | Can content from others be monetised? |
57,118 | 1 | 2020-10-13T10:41:01.480 | 0 | 52 | 2020-10-13T12:21:29.833 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The author of the [Code2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code2000) font [stated](https://web.archive.org/web/20101122142710/http://code2000.net/code2000_page.htm):
>
> Users are required to register the font after a “reasonable”
> evaluation period if they like the font and continue to use it.
> However, determin... | copyright | Can one rely on copyright holder's vague language? |
39,168 | 1 | 2019-04-15T23:59:01.460 | 3 | 66 | 2019-04-16T00:53:05.830 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I often get asked by some fast food restaurants and other businesses to make a donation to such and such cause when I try to pay at the cashier.
If I say yes, who gets the tax credit?
Me or the business?
| tax-law | Who gets the tax credit, if I say yes to "Would you like to donate a dollar to xyz" at the cashier of a shop in the U.S.A.? |
24,121 | 1 | 2017-11-15T02:52:11.830 | 4 | 238 | 2017-11-15T04:19:55.843 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I often help people out on different stack exchange websites and never have any issues whatsoever. I usually answer questions on the Apple stack exchange website.
I was wondering, if I give out incorrect advice and someone damages their computer or device more, can I be liable in anyway for those damages? I'm not th... | liability | Can I be liable for damages for wrong advice I give on a Stack Exchange site? |
70,432 | 1 | 2021-08-04T22:57:46.447 | 2 | 149 | 2021-08-05T00:12:44.057 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Is it legal to make a film with lightsabers in it in a different universe than Star Wars? Is it legal to make a sci-fi films where there are no Jedi, but people wield lightsabers that are very similar to the ones in Star Wars? Assume for the sake of the question that every character in the film is blue-skinned and they... | copyright | Is it legal to make a film with lightsabers in it in a different universe than Star Wars? |
13,849 | 1 | 2016-09-07T18:00:24.967 | 1 | 618 | 2016-09-07T19:41:56.207 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Is it illegal to redistribute or extend the signals through the internet on otherwise open and free satellite channels?
If not in the US, how is it related to the international scene? The question of it's legality is not clear cut, as the signals are already open.
The internet company would merely be **replacing ... | copyright | Legality of redistributing free to air satellite channels over the internet |
47,432 | 1 | 2019-12-13T11:07:29.403 | 1 | 235 | 2020-11-01T17:07:46.410 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | As it commonly known, the [right to be forgotten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten) is a fundamental right in the modern informational society. It is the right of an individual to obtain erasure of his personal data from the online and offline directories immediately upon request without undue delay.... | privacy | Right to be forgotten in US legal system. Practical approach for erasure? |
14,339 | 1 | 2016-10-01T12:53:35.887 | 1 | 85 | 2016-10-01T21:28:37.243 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Suppose you purchase a CD containing some computer software (e.g. a video game) and a perpetual license to use that software. Included on the disc are songs encoded as, for example, mp3 files. These are not encrypted and can be read/copied by a standard operating system. The mp3 files form part of the software in the s... | copyright | Listening to software music out of context |
21,215 | 1 | 2017-07-15T00:21:36.373 | 0 | 122 | 2017-07-21T18:28:55.170 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I would like to rewrite an old story, written in the 16th century, in the hope that more people may benefit from its message. The latest reprint was in 1971 in Great Britain.
| copyright | Is it legal to rewrite a book written in 16th century English in modern American English? |
9,168 | 1 | 2016-05-11T14:44:09.757 | 1 | 132 | 2016-05-11T18:09:21.323 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Private WoW servers use a novel core, but need to be populated with maps, DBC files, and other content in order to actually have anything aside from an empty "world." Blizzard so far has refused to offer legacy servers themselves, but has gone after private servers.
One of the arguments that people use in support of ... | intellectual-property | Would Blizzard releasing intellectual property under a free to use license reduce their claim to the IP? |
4,585 | 1 | 2015-10-19T05:01:37.973 | 5 | 1,506 | 2022-03-09T03:03:15.283 | 2 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | My friend's beauty salon and beauty product shop was inspected some time ago and in the inspection report it is noted "Surveillance camera in the shop".
**Now I am wondering what the inspector might have actually meant with that note on her inspection result? Is there a law that requires notice to be posted?**
I c... | privacy | Do I need to post a notice in beauty salon if surveillance camera is on premises (California)? |
14,769 | 1 | 2016-10-23T16:33:54.663 | 1 | 279 | 2016-10-26T02:54:21.873 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | That is, the company employs you and pays you wages in return for money (even though you do no work for them).
| employment | Is it legal to pay a company to employ you in the UK? |
34,079 | 1 | 2018-12-05T03:23:06.207 | 1 | 311 | 2021-12-30T20:27:06.000 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I know this is a confusing matter and there's been number of questions here and articles elsewhere, but maybe it would be simpler in the situation explained below.
Assume there's a non-US company selling software on App Store and providing certain subscription services. The following information has to be provided to... | tax-law | What are "US Business Activities" and "Effectively connected income", again? |
11,185 | 1 | 2016-06-25T00:26:26.200 | 3 | 317 | 2018-03-28T14:51:59.487 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | As I understand it, the Right to be Forgotten was promulgated solely as an EU regulation[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European_Union).
Assuming that the UK follows through and leaves the EU, would search engines no longer have to remove results related to British subjects?
| internet | What effect does Brexit have on Britons' Right to be Forgotten? |
70,585 | 1 | 2021-08-08T20:54:44.717 | 0 | 73 | 2021-08-08T23:45:41.073 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Can you sue a foreign company in a civil suit even if it doesn't operate within the country in the United States? Let's say you decide to sue a company headquartered in another country and that only operates in that country. Can you still sue that company from the United States?
| civil-law | Can you sue a foreign company in a civil suit even if it doesn't operate within the country in the United States? |
50,145 | 1 | 2020-03-23T23:11:45.543 | 0 | 79 | 2020-03-23T23:37:23.613 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am a software engineer. While I was working for a previous employer I built a software system from scratch. Part of my employment agreement was anything made for that employer on company time or using company resources belonged to them. Approximately 6 months ago I left that position and took a position with a differ... | intellectual-property | Intellectual property after leaving job |
17,204 | 1 | 2017-02-18T05:33:20.237 | 1 | 89 | 2017-02-18T14:28:26.650 | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In this context, I have in mind a typical business transaction, not a complex contract with explicit terms and so forth.
Suppose a business receives an order from a customer, and payment for the order is received in whole or part, but the business has issues with delivering on it's end because of circumstances outsid... | business | Can a business keep funds it has collected if it cannot complete an order agreement because the paying party proves unreachable? |
27,401 | 1 | 2018-04-05T16:16:52.460 | 1 | 1,465 | 2018-12-18T08:44:43.303 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I'd like to create some original art using images from art history. Let's keep the question widely applicable and say that I might be interested in anything from old paintings and engravings to pen and ink magazine art to early photography, but all of it would be pre-1900s. Many of the images I'm interested in go back ... | copyright | How does copyright law apply to reusing images from before the 1900s? |
6,598 | 1 | 2016-01-25T07:16:17.327 | 5 | 4,551 | 2016-01-25T18:06:11.877 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | How can the federal government set a minimum wage? It seems like that would be reserved to the states under the 10th Amendment.
Is the interstate commerce clause? That seems iffy to me.
| constitutional-law | What gives the US federal government the power to set a minimum wage? |
17,746 | 1 | 2017-03-15T18:57:35.150 | 0 | 4,325 | 2017-03-15T20:14:04.107 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Are there statutes that prohibit an individual from texting another individual if the receiver request cease and desist with communications?
| criminal-law | Cease and desist texting |
39,260 | 1 | 2019-04-19T23:37:52.907 | -2 | 3,289 | 2019-07-27T23:50:57.270 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Paul Davies. [*JC Smith's The Law of Contract* (2018 2 ed)](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smiths-Law-Contract-Paul-Davies/dp/0198807813/ref=dp_ob_title_bk). p. 69.
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> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nyYyb.jpg)
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>
1. Is the Best Answer from [Yahoo ... | contract-law | What does "hold to order" mean? |
21,886 | 1 | 2017-08-10T22:18:31.953 | 2 | 1,030 | 2019-08-26T02:24:51.773 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I'm playing around with the idea of transcribing some of my favourite podcasts and recorded talks, putting them up on a website and accepting donations from users to hopefully help support some of the costs.
What are the legal implications of doing this? Am I even allowed to publish the transcriptions without permiss... | copyright | Copyright implications of creating transcripts? |
6,184 | 1 | 2016-01-05T15:55:36.787 | 0 | 248 | 2016-01-06T14:41:17.857 | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | If I write a book and I cite the works of other authors, what are the legal requirements for the citation? For example, I want to take about 1 or 2 sentences verbatim from the book titled 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'
I assume that I have to include the name of the author and the name of the work, which I... | copyright | Citing other works within my book |
37,868 | 1 | 2019-03-05T21:04:00.823 | 1 | 187 | 2020-03-21T22:56:11.273 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | A company advertises positions and receives far more applications from members of one sex than from the other. The company wants to interview the same number of people from each sex. It chooses the following policy: applicants are ordered within each sex and interviewed in pairs. If they run out of applicants from one ... | employment | Is it legal to invite applicants to interview on the basis of sex? |
71,181 | 1 | 2021-08-26T17:48:10.690 | -2 | 70 | 2021-08-27T09:38:12.577 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If my game would have outlines on the characters just like in the mobile game Brawl Stars, but with a completely different implementation (I sure hope so. I mean, I don't have access to their codebase to check), and the characters themselves look completely different. Would this cause legal issues?
The intent is to c... | copyright | Creating a game, where characters have outlines like in Brawl Stars |
27,453 | 1 | 2018-04-07T04:22:51.447 | 0 | 377 | 2018-04-11T00:24:43.450 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: [*Introduction to Law in Canada*](http://emond.ca/introduction-to-law-in-canada.html) (2014). p. 173 Bottom.
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> Superior Courts
> ---------------
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>
> Like the inferior courts, the superior courts fall into two categories: provincial/territorial
> and federal.
>
>
> ### Provincial and Territorial
>... | constitutional-law | Why did s 92(14) (of the Constitution Act, 1867) permit Provincial Superior Courts to adjudicate some matters falling under federal legislative power? |
74,961 | 1 | 2021-11-30T12:46:19.703 | 3 | 79 | 2021-12-02T10:51:19.017 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | <https://web.archive.org/web/20110713050011/http://blog.internetcases.com/2009/01/22/no-personal-jurisdiction-over-australian-defendant-in-flickr-right-of-publicity-case/>
>
> The court similarly found that any purported agreement with Wong via
> the Creative Commons license was not sufficient to establish personal... | copyright | What is personal jurisdiction and how can it allow someone to not respect the copyright of another individual? |
3,440 | 1 | 2015-09-08T02:54:24.680 | 1 | 155 | 2015-09-08T13:06:23.787 | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Say I'm selling at a swap-meet.
A person who, unbeknownst to me, is operating another store in the same area approaches my stall and purchases an item (specifically an old, but still functional laptop), then later demands a refund after removing the screen and hard drive claiming "*you said this still worked, but the... | business | What is this called? E.G: Competition buys product, breaks it, and asks for a return |
7,383 | 1 | 2016-02-25T22:37:35.950 | 5 | 58,699 | 2019-10-23T05:48:25.363 | 5 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Company A and Company B have a business relationship lasting for years. All kinds of agreements are in place between them. License Agreements, Supply Agreements, Development Agreements and so on.
Company A gets acquired by Company C. After closing, former Company A now operates as Company AC.
What happens to all the ... | contract | Do existing contracts get automatically transferred to the acquiring company? |
22,714 | 1 | 2017-09-18T16:44:43.883 | 0 | 359 | 2017-10-18T18:17:02.660 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In looking at Texas stalking laws, especially since 2015, in Section 42.072, it appears that even the following actions are illegal:
Person A and Person B are in an online but intimate and romantic relationship. Both live in Texas.
From time to time one of them gets upset at the other and blocks the other from their ... | criminal-law | How broad are Texas' stalking laws now? |
6,345 | 1 | 2016-01-12T00:20:45.113 | 1 | 475 | 2016-01-12T00:20:45.113 | 0 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I recently purchased an LLC via LegalZoom and they made a mistake by adding a comma in my LLC Name. I was told that I had to cough up over $150 just to get it corrected through them so I wanted to do it on my own as the filing fee is only $30 or $45 if I wanted to drop it off.
The form is located here: <http://bpd.cd... | business | How to correct an LLC Entity Name in California? |
64,108 | 1 | 2021-04-14T20:37:58.213 | 2 | 101 | 2021-04-15T11:40:00.030 | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Keyword: “hull splashing”
I have heard that any copyright created prior to 1924 is expired. Therefore, my question: If this is true, can I simply copy and sell any boat designed prior to 1924, i.e. the 12 foot dinghy?
In particular, I am not interested in the complete boat design, but only the hull, as this is the ... | copyright | Can I copy and sell any boat designed prior to 1924? |
36,917 | 1 | 2019-02-05T23:27:27.010 | 0 | 53 | 2019-02-08T23:17:17.603 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Customer gives me an e-book or a document, I record audio of that document and send it to the customer. I am not redistributing that work, I only charge the customer. Will this infringe the copyright law? The customer could be giving me an e-book that he bought.
| copyright | Convert document/e-book to audiobook |
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