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Do you need to have filed a Copyright to enforce the DMCA
I lead IS for my organization and the other day we found out a competitor stole all of the Copy Text from our corporate site and pasted it nearly verbatim to their own (the only changes were to ...
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Copyright infringement on an image from an article of mine
I just received a notification from my hosting provider which told me that a certain company sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") copyright infringement notice regarding an image found in ...
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Can i link to other websites in my newsletter?
I'm intrested in adding several intresting articles on my newsletter from other websites.
Am i allowed to do that in general or every website has it's own rules?
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Photos - do I really need to look for the author and ask his permission when posting them on my site?
When I find a photo somewhere on the internet, without any explicit information of whether I can re-publish it on my own website, without any hint of who is the owner/author of that photo, can I still ...
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Non-intentional hosting of material that is protected by copyright law
I am interested how copyright law works in the case of Rapidshare, Youtube and etc. Just hypothetically speaking, what if I create a website for uploading and sharing MP3 files, and some users start ...
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title, content copied and title, name used! trademark issue?
I have a video website, server and domain bought 3 months 1 week ago, website actually started 1 month 1 week ago. Domain name plain and simple, easy to remember, bought with a yearly fee, nothing ...
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Is it allowed to use one frame of a hollywood blockbuster on my website?
I want to build a website where users can upload screenshots from movies. Does anybody knows if this is (il)legal? I'm living in europe/germany.