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70,656 | 1 | 2021-08-10T17:19:29.717 | 3 | 111 | 2021-08-10T19:03:15.873 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Are math questions copyrightable? I am thinking it is, but to what extent and what are the limitations? Because some question like 2+2 are too basic to be copyrightable, but some other mathematics question in calculus 1, 2 and 3 are easily copyrightable, or at least should or might have to be. I am asking, because some... | copyright | Are mathematics questions copyrightable? |
6,010 | 1 | 2015-12-23T17:02:21.667 | 3 | 95 | 2015-12-24T01:29:25.340 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I watched many American movies in which they tell about a person who writes a personal real life story of his best friend without his acknowledgement.
And the movies said that person is wrong and in some cases his best friend can sue him to the court.
Is writing a real-life story about a person is illegal in USA?
... | privacy | Is writing a real-life story about a person is illegal in USA? |
50,784 | 1 | 2020-04-17T20:49:32.037 | 3 | 175 | 2020-04-18T10:03:39.957 | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I understand that a contract can be created by the actions undertook by the involved parties. When you visit a website you agree to the ToS by using the website (regardless if you read it or not). Related to my [previous question](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/50775/can-an-employer-charge-employee-contractor-... | contract-law | Can reading a something mean agree to to a contract? |
5,272 | 1 | 2015-11-18T14:17:31.350 | 3 | 54 | 2015-11-18T18:46:54.040 | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Some universities do not provide solutions/mark-schemes to exam papers. If someone (e.g. a student) was to upload online (e.g. via a blog or in a document) solutions that they themselves have made would this be legal?
**Additionally**
On a very related topic what about uploading the answers to problems in textbooks... | internet | Providing exam solutions? |
45,240 | 1 | 2019-10-03T21:13:50.483 | 0 | 200 | 2020-07-31T14:05:15.630 | 2 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Under what guise of law, would state actors (UK, US, etc.) be able to issue secret (unpublished) subpoenas that require industry / utilities to provide government **access** to their systems? Examples of **access** include [phone companies, which were forced during the Clinton administration to build digital networks t... | privacy | Is there precedent of secret subpoena that compels government access? |
53,531 | 1 | 2020-07-23T09:06:02.773 | 0 | 96 | 2020-07-25T22:51:47.007 | 2 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Usually when a contractor creates some new solution for their client it is understood that “tools of trade” used by the contractor are owned by the contractor, while any *new* IP created for the client is owned by the client.
What happens when the client wants to own ***all*** the IP? Does this ever make sense?
Wou... | copyright | Is it normal for the client to own all IP for work created by a software contractor? |
19,564 | 1 | 2017-06-13T09:58:03.630 | 1 | 16 | 2017-06-13T16:01:49.937 | 0 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | There's a maker of toys on the market and they only produce physical toys which are quite peculiar, unique and distinct from everything else. Suppose I have an idea to buy several toys from them, make photographs and drawings of those and sell that art on my website. Is there a general law (in the US) that could prohib... | copyright | How broad can a copyright be in case of a graphical representation of a physical object |
14,026 | 1 | 2016-09-16T20:20:55.503 | 0 | 134 | 2016-09-17T00:27:32.320 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | MAGIX likes to sell sound packages that they proclaim as "license-free and royalty free content for non-commercial use only" (e.g <https://www.cloudswave.com/creative-tools/s/magix-soundpool-dvd-collection-20/compare/magix-video-slideshow-sound-archive-8/> ). Sometimes they offer products that they advertise as "comple... | licensing | How can sound assets be "license and royalty free" but also "non-commercial use only"? |
75,073 | 1 | 2021-12-05T17:26:50.747 | 0 | 79 | 2021-12-05T17:47:30.763 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | What does the law state about the legality to purchase an objectively legal good or service from a marketplace that also sells objectively illicit goods?
As far as I know, it is legal:
1. To physically browse items at a store in a bazaar that sells legal items (eg authentic Nike shoes) and also illegal items (eg co... | internet | Is it legal to purchase something from a marketplace that clearly sells illicit goods? (silkroad, darknet markets) |
72,381 | 1 | 2021-09-02T18:00:22.040 | 1 | 225 | 2021-09-02T19:35:07.603 | 3 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | To save on textbooks in college, I intend to borrow someone else's and take pictures of the pages, and then read the pictures. However I do not intend to at any point publish the pictures, and would only use them for personal use.
Is this technically copywrite infringement, because I am not supposed to be able to rea... | copyright | Is it copyright infringement to take pictures of textbooks for personal use? |
52,397 | 1 | 2020-06-16T04:09:11.937 | -1 | 153 | 2020-06-16T05:08:31.713 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I like goodreads but it lacks many features, i want to develop an app that view quotes in more modern way with more advance filters and features .The app is free with the option to pay for extra features.
Is that legal or illegal?
| copyright | Goodreads app (Scraping quotes) is it legal? |
51,642 | 1 | 2020-05-20T22:22:32.953 | 0 | 59 | 2020-06-22T19:41:27.373 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Or is there, in other words broad leeway for when a judge or a court can decide based on all of the other materical circunstances, when or when not he should enforce an otherwise unenforcable promise?
I don't have access to my college business law textbook for reference, so I can't check. What I remember is this: the... | contract-law | Do all estoppable promises have to be estopped? |
4,723 | 1 | 2015-10-25T20:00:06.097 | 5 | 235 | 2016-11-12T17:42:42.380 | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Is it a crime if someone is aware a device looks like a bomb and brings that device to a public place?
| criminal-law | Is it a crime to bring a device that resembles a bomb to a public place such as an airport? |
17,010 | 1 | 2017-02-08T16:01:04.150 | 0 | 98 | 2017-02-20T02:47:41.947 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Suppose there is open conflict between an executive administration and the federal judicial branch. The executive branch wants to curtail judicial power, but is hopefully limited by the Constitution in what it can do. Presumably there is also a certain precedence and decorum that discourages such conflicts from escalat... | constitutional-law | Executive/Judiciary Separation of Powers: Weaknesses? |
22,590 | 1 | 2017-09-12T16:13:53.793 | 0 | 49 | 2017-09-12T21:44:32.103 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I'm thinking about making my own games / applications and trying to make money from it.
I have two questions related to this:
1. I'm not sure if I should become a sole trader or create a business. I know the pros and cons of both of them, and the extra commitment is a bit of a turn off when it comes to creating a b... | software | Sole trader / business for app/game development |
24,600 | 1 | 2017-12-06T10:41:50.337 | -1 | 59 | 2017-12-08T16:39:28.783 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | The ["Petite" policy](https://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-2000-authority-us-attorney-criminal-division-mattersprior-approvals#9-2.031) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_Clause#%22Petite%22_policy)) is a set of criteria (based on policy, not the Constitution or statute) the federal Department of... | criminal-law | Is re-charging Jose Ines Garcia Zarate compliant with the "Petite" policy? |
55,434 | 1 | 2020-08-18T14:45:37.900 | 1 | 188 | 2020-08-18T17:00:38.813 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In relation to the definition of ‘sexual activity’ I am wondering if explicit/nude photos would be classed as "sexual activity" under [S4 SOA 2003](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/4)?
| criminal-law | Is it classed as sexual activity? |
26,003 | 1 | 2018-02-12T03:11:32.050 | 1 | 57 | 2018-02-12T20:45:03.720 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | A former employer deducted a "fee" charge when I contacted him to get my 401 funds moved to my new employer's roll-over account. It was 1 year after I was dismissed from his employment. Is it legal for him to deduct this "fee" from my personal
funds?
| employment | Can a former employer deduct a "fee" when issuing a check for my new roll-over? |
4,512 | 1 | 2015-10-16T11:29:58.693 | 3 | 1,300 | 2015-10-16T14:00:36.737 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Is it illegal to sell something on craigslist without adding a regions value added tax?
Say for example GST is 10%, and I sell my bike for $100; do I technically have to charge $110, and send $10 to the government?
| tax-law | Is it illegal to sell something on craigslist without adding a regions value added tax? |
53,407 | 1 | 2020-07-19T16:22:24.060 | 0 | 95 | 2020-07-19T17:34:42.967 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If someone reported someone else for sending ‘abusive messages’ to them under the Mal comms act.
Would unsolicited pictures of certain body parts be classed as abusive?
The act is ‘send communication/ article of indecent/ offensive nature’.
| criminal-law | Malicious communications UK |
46,788 | 1 | 2019-11-24T00:39:19.163 | 1 | 113 | 2019-11-24T02:30:36.790 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | *A Dictionary of Law* (9 ed. 2018). Edited by Jonathan Law.
[Quantum](https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198802525.001.0001/acref-9780198802525-e-3181?rskey=KW3ZdB&result=1)
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67,658 | 1 | 2021-07-13T03:00:24.060 | 0 | 56 | 2021-07-13T18:53:43.673 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Can you get patents invalidated without launching a civil lawsuit against a company? Can a person or a company let's say Samsung get a patent from Apple invalidated without launching a civil lawsuit? Is it also possible to hide your identity while doing so? Samsung wouldn't want Apple to know what it's doing and would ... | intellectual-property | Can you get patents invalidated without launching a civil lawsuit against a company? |
40,807 | 1 | 2019-05-08T02:03:58.623 | -1 | 382 | 2019-05-16T21:51:03.963 | 2 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am looking for some advice on copyright infringement.
We are an independent media run by volunteers and have not income, assets or offices at all. Therefore the staff varies. One of the volunteer download a photo from a blog that it seemed to be free use (the photo has been published hundreds of times in blogs that d... | copyright | How to negotiate a payment for copyright infringement? |
50,734 | 1 | 2020-04-15T18:38:01.483 | 2 | 57 | 2020-04-15T19:16:46.717 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Assume, there's a model called **CustomerDetails**, which contains the following properties:
* ContactEmail - an email address for contacting purposes,
* ContactAddress - a postal address for contacting purposes,
* DefaultDeliveryAddress - default address for delivery when creating orders,
* DefaultInvoiceAddress - d... | privacy | Is revision history (audit/change log) compliant with GDPR's right to rectification? |
15,284 | 1 | 2016-11-15T21:30:39.087 | 4 | 683 | 2016-11-15T22:27:06.080 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Lets say that an individual, Bob, has a regular job which covers his daily expenses, but also has an illegal side job. A decent percentage of his disposable income is due to Bob's illegal activities, but he has some disposable income coming from his legal activities. Both sources of income are placed into a bank, and b... | criminal-law | How does one determine if illegal goods were accepted if an individual who has both legal and illegal source of income pays another party? |
62,403 | 1 | 2021-03-22T19:19:10.983 | 3 | 104 | 2021-04-22T06:09:03.103 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The Criminal Code of Canada provides that
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> (a) in Yukon, in so far as they are inconsistent with *the Yukon Act*;
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> (b) in the Northwest Territories, in so far as they are inconsistent
> with the ... | criminal-law | Which part of the Criminal Code does not apply in the territories? |
3,824 | 1 | 2015-09-20T05:23:14.353 | 3 | 115 | 2015-09-20T14:20:12.480 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have created two images of a horse and an elephant from scratch based on Shutterstock images. I have changed some colors and added some more details but at the bottom line it looks very much the same.
I want to use those images in my website, can I do it without risking being sued for copyrights violations?
| copyright | Creating an image derived from a stock image |
7,879 | 1 | 2016-03-19T20:38:57.300 | 0 | 790 | 2018-11-17T02:15:07.010 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Akinator, the app and website, both display images of what I assume is copyrighted material. How do they manage to get around copyright law? Is this considered fair use?
| copyright | How does Akinator not violate copyright law? |
28,410 | 1 | 2018-05-11T13:14:38.827 | 0 | 71 | 2018-05-12T02:06:12.850 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | If a person were to setup a blog and got a few of their friends to also post on this blog. Who is to blame if one of those people were to get hit with a lawsuit for copyright infringement?
Since this is not a registered business, or even a business, is the owner of the domain going to be the target of the lawsuit or ... | copyright | Where do personal blogs stand with lawsuits? |
59,992 | 1 | 2021-01-09T18:16:11.007 | 1 | 130 | 2021-06-23T18:02:35.493 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Suppose that a person creates a website where the users can upload text (eBooks). There is no obvious way to be sure that users own the copyright to text that they upload. Assume that the website is designed so that after the user uploads the eBook the owner must approve the texts before they are displayed on the websi... | copyright | How can a website operator be protected from copyright claims |
9,699 | 1 | 2016-06-03T11:12:41.477 | -1 | 50 | 2021-01-07T16:04:50.397 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In April 2016 The DAO was launched (see <https://daohub.org/>, [The DAO on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_%28organization%29)).
It enables people from all over the world to invest money in different projects. Those investments are regulated by "smart contracts" which may contain payment terms so that ... | contract-law | How can DAOs assure the payout from successful investments as specified in smart contracts |
18,134 | 1 | 2017-04-02T23:59:52.103 | 0 | 61 | 2017-04-03T04:09:30.757 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I disputed with my roommate regarding the noise issue. During a dispute, I said "If you keep making noise in the future, I will 1. contact the leasing office for feasible solutions 2. report this case to your professor(advisor) 3. cut off the in-room Internet". He said it was illegal verbal threat and wanted to sue me.... | criminal-law | Weather my comments committed coercion in the second degree in NY? |
17,444 | 1 | 2017-03-01T03:57:54.800 | 3 | 2,099 | 2018-08-08T03:00:52.373 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I live in California. Soon I will hire a household employee to cook meals for me in my home.
Per California OSHA law the employee must be given and read a kitchen safety manual.
Must I pay the employee for the time spent reading the kitchen safety manual?
| employment | Must I pay new employee for reading the safety manual? |
11,097 | 1 | 2016-06-21T16:33:24.557 | 2 | 156 | 2017-10-15T09:08:57.153 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | If a public rental space allows for different groups, acts, and performances to rent the space, and is defined as a "public accommodation" for purposes of the law, can the space legally deny a group, act, or performance from renting out the space based on disagreement with the content of the performance?
Does this ch... | constitutional-law | Does the lessor of a rental space have standing to deny an act or performer from renting the space? |
30,251 | 1 | 2018-07-14T21:37:34.003 | 1 | 57 | 2018-07-14T22:50:14.797 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | By "my own sounds", I mean that I generated them or bought them.
| copyright | Do I violate a copyright law if I reconstruct the sound effect scenario, but use only my own sounds in it? |
9,562 | 1 | 2016-05-29T11:48:04.050 | 0 | 82 | 2016-05-29T15:57:13.880 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | What is the legal effect of a successful "as applied" challenge? Does it cancel out the whole law or just create new enforcement guidelines which suggest that the applied conduct should not be punished?
| constitutional-law | What is the legal effect of a successful "as applied" challenge? |
25,616 | 1 | 2018-01-26T12:24:38.130 | 1 | 103 | 2018-01-26T17:21:34.967 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | From the footer on all SE sites, user contributions are licensed as CC BY-SA 3.0:
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> site design / logo © 2018 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under [cc by-sa 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) with [attribution required](https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required... | licensing | How to dual licencing code on SE |
51,415 | 1 | 2020-05-10T21:12:25.973 | 0 | 56 | 2020-05-10T23:59:35.237 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Like many consumers these days, I now depend on home delivery for many of my 'non-essential' items.
I have been shopping online for a steel product which is often counterfeited (mostly from China), and have managed to weed out the more obvious fakes. Unfortunately, the very manufacturer that produces the item has co... | trademark | How to interpret "USA made" |
8,343 | 1 | 2016-04-06T01:09:38.720 | 1 | 4,224 | 2016-04-06T05:37:56.580 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I'm working on a NFP organisation constitution with a group of fellow members - we're very small.
There is a line "Save as provided in this Constitution...". And I'm thinking that whoever wrote that must have had 10 coffees or something, because it's woefully pretentious.
Any suggestions for simpler opening? Perh... | business | Is there a better way to say "Save as provided in this Constitution..." |
70,359 | 1 | 2021-08-03T02:09:18.823 | 1 | 121 | 2021-08-03T04:53:36.400 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I believe the copyright on Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf was appropriated by the Allies after WWII. But what about copyrights on other Nazi media?
Consider this image, for example: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Der_ewige_Jude_poster.jpg>
It was created for a Nazi propaganda film by Hans Schweitzer, who is no... | copyright | Copyrights on Nazi Media |
24,740 | 1 | 2017-12-13T15:56:15.387 | 0 | 106 | 2018-05-26T22:31:30.630 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Can a building management company charge me for work - cleaning up, fixes, etc. - that are the result of other residents' actions?
Eg If another resident(s) makes a large mess in a common area and there's a cost to clean it up - is it fair (correct legal term?) for me to be expected to pay?
| contract-law | Building management company: Can I be charged for something not my responsibility? |
5,569 | 1 | 2015-12-03T23:49:39.683 | 0 | 85 | 2015-12-05T02:57:47.700 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I am reading The Crying of Lot 49, wherein a fictional organization called "Trystero", that may or may not exist in the story, is associated with a symbol called the "muted post horn". The author, Thomas Pynchon, invented this organization and its symbol in this story, amongst other things.
The symbol as depicted on... | copyright | IP rights for an element from a story? |
59,974 | 1 | 2021-01-08T20:46:35.430 | 13 | 2,860 | 2021-02-11T02:44:01.470 | 4 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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> Prosecutors in the US Attorney's office plan to open a federal murder investigation into the death of Brian D. Sicknick, a US Capitol Police officer who died Thursday night, a law enforcement official tells CNN.
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[source](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/capitol-police-officer-killed/index.ht... | criminal-law | Could all participants of the recent Capitol invasion be charged over the death of Officer Brian D. Sicknick? |
1,391 | 1 | 2015-07-27T04:52:07.460 | 8 | 8,307 | 2015-08-03T22:46:28.733 | 3 | 7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | So I am trying to create a military shooter and therefore must have guns. I would like to include some weapons from real life (Ak-47, M16, Glock, etc.) and I would like to know what legal issues I might run into by using these names. Mainly if I could be violating copyright laws.
| copyright | Are the names of guns protected under copyright law in the US? |
18,646 | 1 | 2017-04-28T00:05:11.743 | 1 | 702 | 2021-03-13T08:53:17.233 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Is it illegal (or criminal) to break a contract? For example when you agree to a websites Terms of Service, if you violate a term, are you breaking the law?
| contract-law | Is it illegal to break a contract? |
8,132 | 1 | 2016-03-29T19:26:30.570 | 0 | 115 | 2016-03-29T23:31:22.150 | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Recently, a `node` software developer asked that his packages be un-published from an index of software packages called "npm" when the developer was threatened with trademark infringement. The package un-publication caused a cascade of functionality problems with software dependent on one of these packages.
The devel... | copyright | Duration of a license granted without specific bound |
72,937 | 1 | 2021-09-19T12:25:34.220 | -3 | 71 | 2021-09-19T16:38:16.213 | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Can you require a contract writer to make another official document that vulgarize the content of the contract in the United States? Or is it your responsibility to hire a lawyer and verify the content of the contract? I heard there's a law called fraudulent misrepresentation. But that law doesn't say that a party need... | contract-law | Can you require a contract writer to make another official document that vulgarize the content of the contract in the United States? |
48,403 | 1 | 2020-01-23T04:08:26.440 | 3 | 389 | 2020-01-23T19:05:08.870 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I would like to make a video where I teach something. My friend has a video camera and is willing to record me. Who would own the video?
I ask because I plan on uploading it to some sort of streaming service (or personal website) and would like to choose the correct license on there. Maybe I'm over thinking this but ... | copyright | For amateur recordings, who owns the video? The camera man or performer? |
37,690 | 1 | 2019-02-28T00:02:07.563 | -1 | 116 | 2019-03-05T23:23:33.643 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I've been in mediations with Alorica, a call center here in my city, for some time now. I was offered employment on two campaigns, one of which was a week long, and I accepted those offers. My background information didn't come back in time for me to begin training for the week-long Pizza Hut Superbowl campaign and I w... | employment | Can I sue an employer for not providing the active employment I was promised? |
28,209 | 1 | 2018-05-04T04:53:14.767 | 4 | 146 | 2018-06-23T23:23:28.977 | 3 | 6 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Ireland tax rate is low. 15%.
However, Seychelles tax rate is even lower. It's 0%.
So why bother incorporating in Ireland?
I mean are there any laws in US, Ireland, or Seychelles that motivate IT companies to incorporate in Ireland instead of tax haven like Belize?
| tax-law | Why do tech companies incorporate in Ireland instead of Seychelles? |
61,369 | 1 | 2021-02-21T06:29:42.233 | 6 | 1,812 | 2021-02-21T17:14:47.873 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My YouTube video is 10 minutes long. There is a one-second scene in a movie that I want to insert into my video to create a funny effect.
Is this copyright infringement?
| copyright | Am I allowed to cut a 1 second scene from a movie and use it in my 10 minute YouTube video |
1,260 | 1 | 2015-07-22T01:52:23.613 | 4 | 262 | 2015-07-22T21:15:13.460 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I am making a website for a client who has a store and is trying to sell their products on the web now. I told the client that they would need to provide me with images of all of their products and instead, they directed me to the websites that sell the same items and told me to use their images instead.
I explained ... | copyright | How to avoid image copyright infringement |
56,174 | 1 | 2020-09-10T14:08:08.927 | 1 | 46 | 2020-09-10T14:40:16.200 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am written a theater play based on a hollywood movie. I am from Bulgaria so I have wrote my play based on a transaction from the original movie script. My question is to whom I have to write if I want to buy the copyrights for my play. To the original movie owners of the rights or to the owners of the rights which ar... | copyright | Writing theater play based on a movie (translated) |
16,538 | 1 | 2017-01-20T03:46:25.620 | 0 | 61 | 2017-01-20T05:46:07.460 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | There is a trademarked product used in therapy that is used to increase breathing capacity. I would like to use that product in a kit with protocols and instructions that would improve its current use and expand its uses. How do I do that without infringing on the trademark or being limited by the trademark owners?
| trademark | Using a trademarked item in another product |
76,428 | 1 | 2021-12-19T01:56:58.630 | 0 | 65 | 2021-12-21T19:31:20.057 | 1 | 9 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My research has led to unexpected discoveries and areas of learning relevant to the artisan.
Academic paper by Lemly refers to an academic paper by Brown only two years after the Lanham Act was enacted: *[The Modern Lanham Act and the Death of Common Sense](https://law-journals-books.vlex.com/vid/the-modern-lanham-ac... | trademark | Is the Lanham Act used to protect commercial trademarks? or for protecting the public from fraud? |
24,969 | 1 | 2017-12-28T06:21:13.390 | 2 | 252 | 2018-06-07T06:21:36.613 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | According to US law, when a person approaches a woman who is pregnant in the third trimester, usee a knife and "takes the life of the unborn child" while the woman survives, is this crime a murder or a personal injury to the pregnant woman, or both?
Does anything change depending on the month that the pregnancy had r... | criminal-law | What crime is killing a foetus without the mother's consent? |
49,429 | 1 | 2020-02-26T03:50:28.340 | -4 | 120 | 2020-02-26T21:25:32.990 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Would a holocaust in the us that killed six million jews be legal as long as it was justified using existing legislation such as national security? Would any attempt to change these laws afterwards to convict the holocausters be an ex post facto?
| criminal-law | Would something like the holocaust be legal today |
37,823 | 1 | 2019-03-04T09:15:35.473 | 0 | 926 | 2019-03-04T09:26:11.490 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I signed an internet contract with a fake address in California. I live in Georgia.
Am I under California or Georgia jurisdiction?
Contract does not specify.
| contract-law | Jurisdiction in this case? |
79,005 | 1 | 2022-03-31T23:18:04.140 | 2 | 81 | 2022-03-31T23:18:04.140 | 0 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Let us suppose that I am a programmer at a software company. Furthermore, let us suppose that I am learning a programming language that the company is using. Do I violate YouTube's Terms of Service if I am watching videos on YouTube that are explaining concepts and functionalities of the programming language following ... | licensing | Does watching YouTube's videos at work violate YouTube's Terms of Service |
12,074 | 1 | 2016-08-02T05:43:49.320 | 1 | 114 | 2016-08-03T16:07:46.777 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Consider the following scenario.
I am an independent Turkish game developer and I make profit by developing games for ios devices and app store. I am not happy about the high income tax rate in Turkey so I open a company in another country(say Bulgaria for convenience) with low tax rate. I stay in Bulgaria for 1 year... | tax-law | Income tax from digital goods |
9,552 | 1 | 2016-05-28T21:59:39.443 | 0 | 41 | 2016-05-31T07:59:51.630 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | For a comparison portal, that just lists and compares the products developed by others, it is allowed to copy the product description and the product tehnical details from the official website of the manufacturer?
Thank you!
Best regards
| copyright | Comparison portal is allowed to copy the product descriptions from manufacturer? |
14,376 | 1 | 2016-10-03T15:54:26.117 | 1 | 56 | 2016-10-03T15:54:26.117 | 0 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | A software company are refusing to cancel a subscription product I have with them which renewed in 16th July 2017 unless I pay a £239.40 early cancellation fee. The subscription began in 2014.
They have no record of my approval, just a record that I didn't disapprove it.
[![enter image description here](https://i.s... | contract-law | Is an autogenerated, opt-out email legally binding |
3,492 | 1 | 2015-09-09T06:29:37.877 | 1 | 2,350 | 2016-07-22T23:16:15.743 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | In France, you can pay a yearly fee to an organisation called ["SACEM"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_auteurs,_compositeurs_et_%C3%A9diteurs_de_musique) and use copyrighted works to make profit in various ways.
Is there an equivalent in the USA?
| copyright | Equivalent of the French SACEM in the USA? |
22,693 | 1 | 2017-09-17T14:18:35.900 | 0 | 544 | 2017-09-17T21:31:47.893 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Where can I find a lawyer for victims of cyberstalking? One can find a criminal defense lawyer but not the one help these victims.
| internet | Where can I find a lawyer for victims of cyberstalking? |
50,468 | 1 | 2020-04-04T21:15:18.540 | 0 | 50 | 2020-04-05T16:23:03.587 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I filled out a w4 upon hire and employer never took taxes out of my check. Is it legal for them to have a w4 on file and not take taxes out your paycheck?
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ETA: Exempt was not specified on the W-4 and no taxes were taken out of the paychecks at all.
| tax-law | W-4 filled out, no taxes take out of paycheck? |
46,954 | 1 | 2019-11-28T10:06:11.937 | 1 | 38 | 2019-11-28T10:39:45.567 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I have a contract which refers to schedule 1 which is another document. However in order to be able to add the document referred to in schedule 1 to the same document as my contract, I would need to convert the schedule 1 document to be the same filetype as my contract which I can't do.
So presuming that I sent the c... | contract-law | Can a schedule be a separate attachment in an email? |
7,988 | 1 | 2016-03-24T12:43:16.733 | 2 | 73 | 2016-04-23T15:20:57.017 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Assume the following situation:
* foreign national in the US
* working visa (e.g. H1-B)
* living permanently in the US, no other address, paying all taxes in the US
* savings account in home country (Europe)
* savings account incurs interest
Is there a threshold for declaring the interest incurred in a foreign cou... | tax-law | Is there a threshold for declaring interest income from a foreign country? |
37,387 | 1 | 2019-02-19T14:53:14.473 | 1 | 61 | 2019-02-28T04:54:02.113 | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Suppose, I have purchased a DVD of movie and my PC's DVD drive has problem. Is it legal to copy content the DVD of movie to a flash memory and then use it on my PC?
| copyright | Is it legal to store copyrighted content on other mediums for personal use? |
47,106 | 1 | 2019-12-04T14:37:32.333 | 1 | 491 | 2019-12-05T00:51:40.423 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In Ron Engineering, the supreme court ruled that a "Contract A" is formed when a bidder submits a bid. This seems to imply that Contract A is formed **by** the bidder, not the receiver of that bid, unilaterally. As I understand Ron Engineering, Ron Engineering made a mistake and could not retract their bid. In effect, ... | contract-law | In Canada's famous "Ron Engineering" case, what really is protected by Contract A? |
72,900 | 1 | 2021-09-18T00:24:18.947 | 17 | 4,754 | 2021-09-20T01:42:50.483 | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I was watching [a segment from CNBC on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybIfSkEOOco) and was surprised by the fact that the government intends to make the tax rate retroactive after the law is passed so that the new tax rates will apply to stocks owned before the law was passed.
I was wondering if in criminal... | criminal-law | Can criminal law be retroactive in the United States? |
64,407 | 1 | 2021-04-23T21:02:05.653 | 2 | 259 | 2021-04-26T03:24:03.797 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | My understand of contract law in general, is that an illegal or unenforceable clause does not render the whole contract void, but rather that specific clause is essentially stricken out, as if it did not exist.
So, if an employment contract has a clause which said ‘in order to resign you must kill a man’ that clause ... | contract-law | Is a contract allowed to have illegal / unenforceable clauses? |
15 | 1 | 2015-05-26T22:04:18.693 | 5 | 95 | 2015-05-26T22:51:41.430 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I live in the US and do writing of my own in various forms ranging from blog posts to content for handouts and trainings I might want to resell at some point in the future.
What steps I should take to legally protect the content I write so that it isn't taken and sold elsewhere later on? Are there additional things I... | copyright | How to prevent/protect my rights to content I write (US) |
50,076 | 1 | 2020-03-21T14:42:44.873 | 5 | 1,603 | 2020-03-21T16:15:03.823 | 1 | 11 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I have created an App at [helpathome.me](https://helpathome.me) which isolated people can use to fill out a form and request help from others.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/X0MUs.png)
I innocently thought this would be fine but a friend told me that... | internet | I have created an App to help isolated people in Corona Virus lockdown. Do GDPR rules apply |
73,684 | 1 | 2021-10-14T06:37:04.173 | -4 | 77 | 2021-10-15T02:02:53.853 | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | As the question arises in the title: What is the purpose of this [protocol](https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/registration/madrid_protocol/) and, especially, what are the benefits over the [Madrid system](https://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/)?
What is the need for this protocol?
| trademark | What is the purpose of the protocol to the madrid system? |
35,834 | 1 | 2019-01-01T07:15:51.683 | 0 | 111 | 2019-07-01T17:02:25.447 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In my ex-company, there were 2 layoffs with in a span of 1 month. In the 1st layoff, the severance pay package was better than 2nd layoff. Will the employees affected in the 2nd round have any recourse to go back and negotiate for a better severance pay?
| employment | Difference in severance package between 2 employees within a one month span |
51,719 | 1 | 2020-05-23T12:08:59.720 | 3 | 82 | 2020-05-25T18:57:37.293 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Assuming the following:
1. Alice has drawn a painting.
2. Bob has somehow (legally) gotten a photo/copy of this painting, but does not have any additional rights.
3. Bob then goes on to publish this image on his Creative Commons Zero blog. (Not thinking about the fact the doesn't have the permission to publish the p... | copyright | Who is responsible when an image was incorrectly published under a permissive license? |
42,551 | 1 | 2019-07-01T03:36:51.780 | 2 | 116 | 2019-07-01T04:58:30.980 | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | So while shopping in a store tonight I witnessed a store clerk allow a customer to use their ID to buy cigarettes. The store clerk ask me if I could allow the customer to use my ID. I clearly and quickly told her that, I could not do that. The lady claimed to be of age. To me as a person with an MBA, would without rese... | business | Can a store clerk let a customer use their ID to buy cigarettes? |
45,284 | 1 | 2019-10-05T10:54:15.280 | 2 | 212 | 2019-10-05T11:47:49.787 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I have written a script that fetches some information that is on a website and upon command it publishes it on another place. Is it illegal to publish it on Github and also if you use it?
| internet | Is publishing a web scraping script on Github to get data from a website to publish it on another place, illegal? |
57,964 | 1 | 2020-11-11T01:41:44.130 | 0 | 115 | 2020-11-11T02:57:17.020 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I wouldn't say illegal as in criminal. However, I've heard someone sue "Ghettopoly" and win.
I check [Is it legal to publish a game that already exists but it was 100% developed by me](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/57946/is-it-legal-to-publish-a-game-that-already-exists-but-it-was-100-developed-by-m)
It s... | copyright | Is "Ghettopoly" legal? |
8,545 | 1 | 2016-04-14T11:50:05.313 | 13 | 4,545 | 2019-02-06T07:04:59.133 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Game art is under copyright of the designer or their company. When I play the game and take a screenshot, whose is the copyright?
* Mine, because I played the game to that point and created the screenshot file;
* The designer or their company, because they made the art?
| copyright | What is the copyright status of game screenshots? |
5,306 | 1 | 2015-11-19T20:38:38.990 | 1 | 269 | 2020-12-27T20:11:04.627 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am working on a software project that requires the use of a setup program. The one my company is using is InnoSetup.
On their [downloads page](https://jrsoftware.org/isdl.php) towards the bottom, under the section titled **Encryption Module** it says:
>
> "For legal reasons, encryption code is not built into In... | software | What legal reasons prevent this software vendor from including encryption in their code? |
23,712 | 1 | 2017-11-01T17:31:18.697 | 1 | 290 | 2017-11-02T12:11:39.297 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I live in the UK. A few months ago, I registered at a gym. The employee there told me that I could cancel the subscription at any time. I didn't sign any contract, just gave my information.
Fast forward last month, I asked to cancel my subscription. They responded that "a welcome email was sent to me after my registr... | contract-law | Canceling an "email" contract |
4,084 | 1 | 2015-09-28T23:54:55.510 | 5 | 190 | 2015-12-29T03:30:21.410 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | The District Court of California recently ruled that [Warner/Chappell Music do not hold the rights to the 'Happy Birthday' song lyrics](http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2056&context=historical).
Assuming that this is not overturned, and given that Warner/Chappell have been pursuing and co... | copyright | Can Warner/Chappell be sued to recover royalties paid to them for the 'Happy Birthday' song? |
24,265 | 1 | 2017-11-21T06:21:22.097 | 0 | 109 | 2017-11-21T06:47:08.983 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I see "*Linehan I* factors" mentioned in some civil commitment decisions published on-line e.g. [this one from Minessota](https://mn.gov/law-library-stat/archive/ctapun/0810/opa080962-1104.pdf). Can someone explain where they come from and what their status is in US law? From what I can gather it's a Minnesota supreme ... | civil-law | Please explain Linehan I factors to a lay person |
8,811 | 1 | 2016-04-27T04:06:56.943 | 0 | 84 | 2016-04-27T05:25:21.640 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Say I apply at McDonald's and give the conditions that I wish to work under:
1.No income is withheld from me -- **thus I am self-employed**.
2.I work like every other worker, **but get paid a fixed amount agreed upon**.
3.I am responsible for taxes myself.
4.I ask specifically for **no benefits other than money... | employment | Is it legal to hire an employee, but pay them as a free agent? |
31,376 | 1 | 2018-08-30T20:55:14.897 | 3 | 89 | 2019-01-21T21:18:12.693 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Suppose, a scientist is planning to publish a paper that is about an algorithm which analyzes Wikipedia articles. I'm wondering, if the European General Data Protection Regulation would be relevant in that case.
According to Article 13, one has to inform anyone whose personal data is collected:
>
> 1. Where perso... | internet | How to fulfill the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in science |
64,574 | 1 | 2021-04-29T23:57:47.633 | 5 | 343 | 2021-04-30T18:20:25.647 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | This is in part a followup to [this comment](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/64470/can-a-so-small-as-to-be-reduced-to-a-dot-confer-any-legal-protection#comment135391_64494) in which a user wrote:
>
> “fixation” broadly depends on publication. How else d’you think fixation is established?
>
>
>
In a lat... | copyright | Is a work copyrighted on fixation or publication? What's the difference? How is it proved? |
7,117 | 1 | 2016-02-13T16:34:45.527 | 0 | 505 | 2016-04-14T14:04:46.483 | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Is the amount of claimable damages greater during a breach of contract or is it greater during a fraudulent misrepresentation?
If company A wants to sue company B due to them being guilty of a fraudulent misrepresentation, would it be better for company A to sue company B for a breach of contract instead, if the part... | contract-law | Are claimable damages greater for a breach of contract or fraudulent misrepresentation? |
17,070 | 1 | 2017-02-10T13:09:40.963 | 0 | 65 | 2017-02-11T21:25:09.393 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I have a mobile app that applies filters to user photos. Suppose that i want to add a filter (or a set of filters) named "Gotham" or "Daredevil" or "X-Men". Suppose this filter (or set of filters) are available only after the user purchases it (that is, they are in app purchases). Does this use of trademarked words con... | trademark | Trademark infringement? |
3,581 | 1 | 2015-09-11T19:06:25.347 | 3 | 220 | 2015-09-24T03:16:11.973 | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | If I'm opening a hosting company and would there be any legal reason or requirement to obtain the home or business addresses of my clients?
| business | Are there legal reasons to maintain addresses for my clients? |
66,876 | 1 | 2021-06-18T17:08:35.840 | 2 | 69 | 2021-06-18T22:25:55.913 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Does U.S. law allow a U.S. plaintiff to sue China for damages stemming from COVID?
(I am not asking whether there is sufficient evidence to support such an allegation; only whether U.S. courts assert jurisdiction to impose tort damages against sovereign governments for such a claim.)
[This previous Q&A](https://law... | civil-law | Can China be sued in U.S. court for torts related to COVID? |
38,374 | 1 | 2019-03-24T07:13:36.813 | 2 | 310 | 2019-03-24T08:49:23.847 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | In scientific articles and textbooks I've found the following images (seen at end of this post). These images were created by different authors at different times. The images all describe the same thing/process, the experimental setup one would use to flow a fluid through a cylinder of rock. In each instance where thes... | copyright | When is an image considered a recreation of another image? |
44,348 | 1 | 2019-09-02T16:22:52.650 | 4 | 1,161 | 2019-09-03T08:46:41.253 | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Contracts generally have terminations clauses allowing either party to eventually end the obligation imposed on them by a contract. E.g. the buyer may have to notify the seller of termination in writing; the service may, at its sole discretion, terminate a user for breaking the rules; the agreement may terminate on a s... | contract-law | Are perpetual contracts enforceable? |
1,770 | 1 | 2015-08-12T00:01:35.787 | 2 | 60 | 2015-08-12T00:58:11.447 | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | The question:
If I am missing time at work, and spending free time, to do research to free myself from a 'crime' I didn't commit, can I sue 'the plaintiff'?
The background:
A rental car company is accusing me of doing ~2000 dollars worth of damage to the locks on one of their cars, they said that I must have locked m... | liability | Being Paid for Preparation Time |
4,739 | 1 | 2015-10-26T14:59:19.257 | 1 | 707 | 2015-10-26T16:12:53.733 | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Can anyone explain the difference between leaking classified information where the information leaked doesn't technically violate any laws (ie- wikileaks) & printing something like the drone report (drones violate international law but we knew that before the papers) and actually whistleblowing like cigarette companies... | criminal-law | Treason vs Whistleblowing charges? |
76,734 | 1 | 2022-01-04T02:41:37.767 | 0 | 81 | 2022-01-05T11:35:47.670 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I am writing a blog and often use some examples from my past (previous companies where I was working).
All of the examples are trivial (no financial info, no customer info, no know-how, and so on). And most of these events happened A LOT of time ago. So, as a result, I am pretty sure nobody cares.
However, one of m... | employment | What can a person legally publicly share about his previous employer? |
61,264 | 1 | 2021-02-17T15:41:01.327 | 2 | 120 | 2021-02-17T19:08:39.260 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Assume a person, who has a net worth of ₹1 billion; pirates and resells software worth ₹2 billion. A lawsuit is filed against that person and about ₹1 billion can be recovered. Is it possible to ask for an investigation in to, and compensation from, all who those received the pirated software for one more billion?
Wi... | intellectual-property | How deep can IP piracy lawsuits go? |
17,350 | 1 | 2017-02-25T04:19:26.790 | 2 | 2,714 | 2017-02-25T17:17:10.010 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I know in some contracts it specifically states "this contract can only be modified in writing by an addendum". I've read this is redundant as it's always true. I've also seen explicit terms in addenda saying things like "this addendum takes precedence, supersedes or prevails over any conflicts, contradictions or incon... | contract-law | When and how does an addendum apply? |
51,619 | 1 | 2020-05-20T03:09:03.047 | 0 | 59 | 2020-05-20T07:14:07.323 | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Suppose you have this scenario:
Company AA is an automotive manufacturer that needs to upgrade the IT system that lasted for 10 years. It asked the same supplier of old IT system to provide a feasibility study on how the system could be improved in terms of speed and efficiency. Company AA recevied a report that the ... | contract-law | Is it possible for a contract to refuse a contract award |
17,959 | 1 | 2017-03-24T09:33:15.920 | 0 | 61 | 2017-03-24T21:18:11.957 | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Many academic journals provide access to old articles via a digital copy of it (normally a pdf). Sometimes this is through a Third Party (like JSTOR, a database). Many of these articles are already in the public domain, as the author died more than 70 years ago (for the case of works published in the US and UK). The fo... | copyright | Does the digitalisation (pdf) of a work already in the public domain has copyright? |
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