Questions related to the law and how it relates to websites and their management.
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Can I be charged for letting a domain expire?
A few months ago I let a domain expire that I no longer wanted. I just received a bill from a collections agency saying that I owe about $100 because although I let the domain expire, it's necessary ...
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Make money off a website developed in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
Is it legal to make money of a website developed in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (which is free)?
Or do I have to buy a license or something?
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Hosting torrent tracker in legal countries
In what countries it is legal to host torrent traacker? I mean without future issues with laws like illegal movie, software downloading.
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Are there any legal implications to reading a user's privates messages on a forum?
I'm the webmaster of a forum and we are having trouble with a user and we suspect he uses privates messages to do illegal business (not illicit, but illegal according to the forum rules).
Are their ...
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Is it legal to host very, very detailed summaries of copyrighted material?
I have a website where people can discuss books of various topics, mostly technical and practical stuff. Lately I have noticed that some members are posting very, very detailed summaries/reviews of ...
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Would it be wrong to register a local domain (.ro) which has the same name as a famous forum .com?
Let's say there is a niche forum called HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.com (I'm making it up, of course) and it's in English.
And I want to create a similar forum in Romanian, registering ...
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Can embedding a content from another website be considered as a violation of copyright law?
I would like to embed a content from another website (a webcam object) to my website. Can it be considered as a violation of copyright law? Both my website and the embedded are within EU. There is no ...
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Am I allowed to save basic user data from Facebook in my own web app's database?
In general my app deals with data that is unrelated to Facebook but also includes a Graph API based app.
So it would be helpful for someone to login with Facebook (without registering in my own web ...
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Is it legal to host unlimited domains in an unlimited hosting plan?
I have an unlimited webhosting plan from http://www.domainindia.org/web_site_hosting_india.php.
I want to give my users a registered domain name like usersite.com and provide a cpanel to them which ...
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General Properties\Legal Domain warning on flash
I had a website containing 2 flash items (menu and banner). Everthing were fine, but for some reasons I had to change its hosting to a new server. Now, I have a warning frame on the banner that says:
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Someone Reported That My Company Is Out Of Business [closed]
I Googled our company name and found that someone had given us a review on the maps site. He gave us a 1 star review and his review was simply "Out of Business". We are definitely NOT out of ...
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Creating image thumbnails and serving from own server
I would like to display some images on my website. This website got indexed content from different websites. It display content in a way that you have image, short description and link to website ...
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Mentioning celebrities as customers
My client owns a dry cleaning business. He serves people who stay at certain hotels in NYC.
Some celebrities have been his customers while staying at those hotels. He would pick up and deliver their ...
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Where do you pay taxes when you sell digital services with paypal?
I know about a Paypal feature to charge taxes. But You must pay taxes where you receives the payments or where the services is paid (mainly USA)?
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I own a domain and recently got a Trademark Infringement for it can I offer to sell it to them?
I own a domain related to an iPhone Game and have been sent a Trademark Infringement on said domain by the company.
It makes me a few dollars a month but nothing great, And I would like to offer to ...
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with a website created in Belgium, hosted on google app engine, which county's laws does my site need to obey?
with a website created in Belgium, hosted on google app engine, which county's laws does my site need to obey? I know that as a company, you have to obey the law of the country where you are based, ...
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Does a DMCA takedown require you to prevent the same file from being uploaded again?
If I allow users to upload media (images, videos, etc.) and I get a DMCA takedown notice for a specific file, do I have to prevent users from uploading that same file in the future?
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Legal responsibility for emebedding code
On our website we have an HTML5 arcade. For each game it has an embed this game on your website copy + paste code box.
We've done the approval process of games as strictly and safely as possible, we ...
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Legality of using/embedding MP3s?
I am working on a language learning startup. I think that one of the best ways to study is through music. For that purpose I would like to include MP3s on the website, together with related study ...
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Can I display ads on a site whose domain name includes a trademark?
I own a domain containing a trademarked word.
I don't want to get into trouble with the trademark owner so my plan is to use the domain to display information (wiki-style) about the service the ...
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Legal issues for adult content websites based in United States [closed]
As part of an escorts contact portal (VIP).
1.- What legal issues is needed to take in account inside US?
2.- In case of needing of professional support, Is there some online service available for ...
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Can I legally use a competitor's business name on my site to compare products?
Simply put, does a company have any grounds for legal recourse if their name is used on a competitor's website in the following manner?
{Product Title and Description} (Comparable to {Competitor's ...
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Where to place privacy, legal, etc info on a website?
Every website I've ever been to has links to legal, privacy, tos, etc on the bottom of every page.
Is this required?
Can I have all that info on a specific about page rather than on every page?
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Registering a website with “YouTube” in the name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark?
Are there legal (or other) issues with registering a site with "YouTube" in the name? An example ...
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Where do blogs get their pictures?
I see a lot of blogs that are full of picture galleries, of celebrities for example, and I wonder how they get all these pictures.
Do most blogs just take pictures from Google images? or is there ...
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Can a company take my domain away from me?
I have a domain which coincidentally is the same name of a company. Is there any legal way in which this company can take my domain away from me?
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How to best protect my web designs? Licenses?
I'm afraid one of my clients might ask his fellow software engineer to design a few page templates for a WordPress-based community I'm redesigning, according to my code and design. He just bounced me ...
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What is “condition of link to developer's website” condition in license
I want to use following icons for my commercial website for free.
http://www.gettyicons.com/free-icon/112/must-have-icon-set/free-remove-icon-png/
According to to above link:
Visual Pharm is ...
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Is collecting IP address and user agents on form submission illegal in the U.S.?
I'm creating a website where I collect the name, email, state, and an optional photo of a user. Before the user submits the form, they have to agree to the terms of the site. For testing and ...
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Would reducing the quality and/or size of images fall under fair use?
I was looking on flickchart tonight and was wondering how they legitimized the usage of movie posters on their site, as I figure that those posters would be copyrighted. However it's been online for a ...
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The Necessity of a Disclaimer
I am a blogger. I write science articles. I study science and write articles in my blog in simple words for the general public to understand. Does this require a disclaimer as I do not want to see ...
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Suspicion about Magento licencing
I have been doing webdesign for a small business in Denmark, which alrady have a deal with a larger company to create the final site.
Among this companys proposal, I see that they charge a rather ...
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Can I use a .net domain for selling goods?
I have a .net domain. I plan to use it for selling goods/commercials. Is that ok? Are there any rules about domain usage?
Thanks in advance.
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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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What liability concerns do advertising vendors raise, and how can I address them?
One of the websites I administer wants to provide free advertising in the form of direct links to vendors at an event they are running. Up until now, there has been no advertising whatsoever on the ...
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Legal terms required to email users - is opt in necessary
Creating a new site requiring membership to participate. I don't anticipate emailing members at this time except for password related issues. Perhaps down the road emails will be necessary.
I ...
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What can I do if someone is spoofing my site?
Someone registered a domain name that is close to mine used a different suffix (.info) and ripped off the UI. They took a screenshot of our homepage put it on their site and put up a modal window ...
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Where can i get photo collection for website/template
I'm developing website templates and wonder how to get (free or buy) photos of product sample for my templates. For example, collection if furniture, shirts, lingerie? Maybe you have preferences with ...
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Using licensed custom fonts for commercial site
What are the legalities regarding using licensed fonts for webpages? It will be used for a for a commercial site. I do not want to get into trouble by using it without a license, (although I do hear a ...
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I found a SQL injection bug on a public facing website, what should I do?
I found (ridiculously easy to discover) a SQL injection bug on a public facing website. I strongly suspect that in the same database are stored credit card numbers of their customers (although not ...
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Why would you want to own just the MX rights to a website?
I acquired an existing small website not too long ago. When I went to register the domain on google apps, it turned out the domain was already registered and I would need to contact whoever had ...
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Can we trademark the name of our group of which the founder and president is no longer associated? [closed]
I am looking for advice. We have a social group. Our president chose to leave our group, (do not wish to name the name). This president founded the group and choose the name. The group pays dues ...
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How can I ensure I'm protected by the “Safe Harbor” clause?
I run a site that allows users to provide their own content & have it publicly available. I've got a standard privacy policy but am wondering what measures I should take to ensure I'm covered by ...
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How can I make my website compliant with various data protection and spamming laws?
On our website we collect an awful lot of personal information. People upload their CVs, and when they use their social networks to log in, we collect information from there too.
We use this ...
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Is it legal to show RSS feeds on my website from another website
I want to display the feeds from multiple news website on my website and create a site which would be something like http://paper.li
So is it legal to display those feeds directly on my website? The ...
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Can I copy TOS & Privacy from other websites?
Can I go ahead and copy TOS & Privacy from any other website and change as per my requirement?
Will it come under "copied" material and can it affect my Adsense approval application later?
Also ...
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Can I use translated versions of other sites' content?
I would like to add a "Comments" module to my online store to display external comments for an item; the comments will come from other big players in this industry.
The comments will be localized ...
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Legal to modify game art and screenshots for my own site?
I'm currently working on building a video game related website, and I'm wondering if it's legal to use screenshots or concept art that game studios post on their official sites. At most I would want ...
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domain name legal takeover
I was wondering; if I buy a domain name, say www.bananapeel.com. Then after a couple of years my site becomes big with plenty of revenue. Because of this someone decides to trademark the name ...
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Laws on credit card information?
I've heard that online merchants can only keep credit card information for set periods of time. Is this true? Amazon's express checkout feature saves credit card info, so does apple's app store. What ...
