Questions related to the law and how it relates to websites and their management.
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How should creative commons attribution for images be provided?
Clicking through from Flickr to the CreativeCommons.org definition for "Some Rights Reserved" you find that you can reuse an image as long as you provide attribution.
If we want to use the image in ...
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I want to write tutorials on web development [closed]
So I have been reading a lot of books on web development and have made more than a few dynamic websites. Now, I want to create tutorials for people just like all the many free tutorials on internet ...
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Is it legal to host user-manual documents on my server? [closed]
Is it legal to host user-manual documents (e.g. a user manual for an lcd television in pdf format) on my server? Also, if I made an HTML page that contains a list of all those hosted documents (again ...
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can a web design agency take credit for my work? [closed]
Recently, a client and I ended our work relationship and he will be taking his business to a web design agency.
I've noticed that it is standard practice of this agency to put "Web site designed by ...
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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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Is there any system in place to recover a domain that expired and someone else has registered?
There was a domain name that was registered for many years for a DOS based software package. The original owners of the domain and software package passed away several years ago and at the time we had ...
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Our website has been 'cloned' and is now running under a .vn domain - course of action?
Our website http://llidesign.co.uk - (design and developed in house and completely hand coded, no templates) has been cloned - http://menplus.vn and is now being hosted on a .vn (Vietnam) domain.
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What are some good resources for generating privacy policies and terms of use?
We've determined that our website needs a privacy policy and a terms of use page to protect our interests. Are there automated tools that will generate these for us? How do we go about creating ...
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Is there any advantage/disadvantage to using robots.txt to disallow access to legal pages such as terms, privacy policy, etc.?
As I understand, having repetitive content is a detriment to search engine placement.
Given that many websites that use similar or even identical "Terms and Conditions" and "Privacy Policy" pages due ...
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simple menus are very simple to code in css then how they can violate copyright? [closed]
I had created a book on CSS which contains every trick to create menu, layouts, tables,etc. Does this violate copyright?
As I had used my codes instead of copying from other sites I think it does ...
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Do I own a registered domain?
A couple of years ago I entered (as a silent partner) into a business. I was asked if I could get a website up and running, which included registering the domain. We have since parted ways but the ...
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Is it safe to have no TOS or PP?
I have coded my own forums from the ground up. I have tried my best to make my code as secure as possible and encrypting everything I can. I want to use this forum for a Minecraft server. I have one ...
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Copyright of pictures upload to a website?
I want to run a website like stock photos. How can I be sure that the uploader is real copyright holder of the picture? Is it possible to leave the responsibility of this copyright claim to the ...
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What are current ADA standards / requirements on images?
I am wondering what ADA (American disabilities act not dental association) currently requires when it comes to images and other things not easily read by webpage "readers". I am currently trying to ...
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How do people write legal and copyright pages? [closed]
I'm in the process of starting a selling market for people who want pet related products and am keen on knowing how people do this, I'm a college student so I have no know how in this matter. Do ...
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is it legal to use links from an established website to identify unique content?
Not sure if this is a good place to ask, but maybe someone here can point me in the right direction...
If I wanted to make a commercial, directory type website (where users can enter content) and in ...
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Is it legal for webmaster to read private forum email? (UK law)
On a website forum, I sent a private email to two users. The webmaster and owner of the website read the email and then used that content to ban me from his website.
The content of the email was ...
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Is it legal for a developer to claim ownership of a clients' analytics data? [closed]
We are working with a client who is having his analytics data held hostage by his previous developers. They are claiming that their contract states that they own the data, but I'm wondering if showing ...
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Using a trademark as a subdomain?
Let's imagine a website that deals with cars: www.cars.com
In order to categorize his website, the webmaster decides to create subdomains for the most famous brands:
ford.cars.com
chrysler.cars.com
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Am I legally required to remove all data associated with a customer (UK)?
A customer has asked that we remove all our stored information from our database.
From a moral standpoint, we have no problem with this, but simply deleting all the data will leave us with orders ...
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Can someone sue me/take my domain?
I have found a great domain that isn't in use, but the .com and .net domains are already taken. There's nothing on the domains though, it just says they are registered with Network Solutions and are ...
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How to safely saving users' data and NOT get responsibility of users' data?
I am programming a website which will save up users' inputs for their next visits. For example, I might save their phone numbers. The user will know that I save their phone numbers. However, do I need ...
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legal to post pictures…? [closed]
I am planning on working on an erotic website and I am wondering what might be the risks implied in doing so.
I would firstly ask sorry if this is not the right website to ask but there is not ...
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Embedding/scraping the Rotten Tomatoes “Tomatometer” score on another site
I run a local community site, and one of our services is a movies page with showtimes for local theaters, as well as links to the official site, IMDB page, Rotten Tomatoes page, etc. for each movie. ...
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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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Converting Free / Paid Fonts via fontsquirrel for Web Use
I was trying to upload a GillSansMTPro-Book font to fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
But I got this message
Monotype has requested that their font Gill Sans MT Pro Book be
blacklisted by the ...
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Legality of screenshot of another website
I wanted to write a blog post about a common feature of some popular websites. To illustrate, I'll need to take screenshot, crop and shows the specific features that's I'm referring to.
I wonder if ...
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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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Can I use the word rails in a domainname for a railsapp? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark?
Lets say i want to build a shop based on rails or something like this. Is it legally secure to use ...
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DMCA in Europe - EUCD?
There is a site to where I need to send a takedown notice. However, this site is hosted in Europe with an offshore hosting company that says clear in its TOS that they will not do anything if they get ...
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selling or using a domain name with trademark of other company [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark?
in domain name but the problem is its the exact same word of a big company i am not sure whether ...
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Limit website usage in court [closed]
I run a few websites for a non-profit organization. Recently, our neighbor has been taking us to court and attempting to sue over everything he can. He made a comment to a supporter of ours that he ...
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Paying out to users credit card using alias as payee name [closed]
I would like to pay out some money to my users credit cards but I am not really not comfortable to reveal my personal data to each person I make payment to, I know owning a company would probably do ...
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Is it illegal to use content in such a way?
I have a couple of questions about the legality of the content of some websites. I am currently working on two websites and I would like to make sure I am not breaking any laws, by using some content ...
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What is the current legal status of magnet links?
Prelude: I develop a cloud service which could be described as dropbox meets torrents and as side effect it enables distribution of arbitrary content via magnet links. Certain amount of magnet links ...
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Privacy policy and terms of use language
I have a Czech registered business with which I'm serving a web app mostly (but not exclusively) targeted to Italian customers. The server is in Amsterdam. The site will be multilingual (with 4 ...
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Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details on my commercial website?
Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details and other relavent information on my commercial website?
We are a magazine site and this would be placed for an additional resource ...
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Legal Web Fonts & Licensing
So I'm a little confused in regards to legality of using fonts for web.
Often from designers I get a PSD file and it uses a special font, and the font is supplied. However attempting to convert the ...
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How much is not too much? using snippets from other copyrighted sources
I'm going to add a news page to my website which will include short snippets from other copyrighted sources, I'm going to only mention the title and maybe a short descriptions and link them to the ...
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How do I make sure the web developer I hire will not steal my idea?
So I have a great idea for a new website. However, not the time to develop it.
I would like to hire a person or company to design it for me.
What steps do I need to take, to protect my idea?
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Are there specific legal issues for web developers working on sex dating sites?
Say I have created many ordinary websites which are not related to any dating/sexual content.
Are the rules and regulations for a developer the same when making a sex-related dating site?
I'm ...
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What do I do if a user uploads child pornography?
If my website allows uploading images (which are not moderated), what action do I take if a user uploads child pornography?
I already make it easy to report images, and have never had this problem ...
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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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How do I copyright my website?
My website has been in development for a long time and cost a lot of money. How do I go about securing an enforceable copyright on my website design and what is the proper way to post a copyright ...
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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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Competing against the same business name in search results
A client of mine had an acrimonious split with their business partner. My client owns the legal business entities but unfortunately the other partner has the server/domain details. The other partner ...
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Is it legal to charge extra fees for copyrighted content on mobile platforms?
this question just came up as we recently bought content from image stock portals. Many of those altered their license agreement in favor of charging more for using in mobile apps. So instead of using ...
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Illegal iphone app for website
I have a web site and someone had made an iphone app for my site without my permission and selling it. He is using my API without getting permission.
How can i report this to Apple?
EDIT: AFAIK, ...
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In the website for a mobile app, is it legal to show photos of actual phones?
In most websites that showcase mobile apps, photos of actual phones are shown as an example of what the app looks like. Sometimes, the phone's brand is visible; other times, the device is clearly an ...
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Is it illegal to distribute a program that downloads YouTube videos? [closed]
I developed a plugin which allows people to download videos from YouTube. It's open-source if that matters. Is my plugin legal to distribute and use?
