Questions tagged [legal]
Questions related to the law and how it relates to websites and their management.
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Can you be sued for using publicly used images on a blog without copyright permission?
Lets say I write a blog post about the new Batman movie or a the new Grand Theft Auto game and i decide to use the boxart/poster or a wallpaper as the main image for the blog post, can I be sued for ...
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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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Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark?
A search on google for "iphone developer" turns up loads of websites which have "iphone" in them, a trademarked name by Apple.
So I'm led to believe that having a domain such as iphonedeveloper.com ...
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What are some good resources for generating privacy policies and terms of use? [closed]
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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How (il)legal is it to get data from a 100% accessible but not "exposed" API
I found a website that provides a huge filterable table with up-to-date data about cities in a country. This site uses an infinite scrolling approach to load the rows for the table.
By exploring ...
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Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
So Google uses cookies when performing its usual duties of tracking users on a website. That is just it though; Google are setting the cookies and not your website as such. This is by virtue of the ...
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When does a website require a privacy policy and/or terms of use?
I am curious to know if every website should have a privacy policy and/or a terms of use page. What are the legal implications if a site doesn't have them? Are there certain categories of websites ...
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AdWords: unauthorised use of trademark in keywords
I recently identified 2 companies who are actively targeting ads through Google AdWords using our trademark (registered in the UK). I filed a complaint with Google, although they are not willing to ...
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Am I legally allowed to cache other people's web pages on my site?
I'm developing a small content aggregation app that frequently relies on posts from other web sites, which occasionally go down or remove the content. Would it be in breach of any legal structure if I ...
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Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the EU?
I have been reading up about this EU cookie law, and have also had in depth conversations with my girlfriend who is a solicitor/lawyer and with colleagues while building websites. While we are now ...
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Am I legally liable for user generated content and comments?
I know that it is in your best interest to enforce specific policies in regards to what is appropriate for your site, but are there any legal issues with not filtering their content?
For example, ...
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Has the EU sued any site(s) yet for not complying with their cookie "law"?
EUROPA websites must follow the Commission's guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not being used to gather information unnecessarily. - source
Many people find ...
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Why are these sites cloning my content, and how do I stop them?
So I was searching for one of my own websites on Google: http://www.botlibre.com
and to my surprise found some clones of my website, like:
http://83waystowasteyourtime.adidas.com
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http:// ...
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Alot of Pirated Material on Someone's Website - What Can Be Done?
We've developed our website for over 10 years. Recently a website in China has begun to pirate our images and product descriptions (they are showing "new" March offerings). Nearly all of the ...
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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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Loading another domain's content in a modal iframe - acceptable?
Is it okay to load another page in an iframe in a modal pop-up window - in terms of legal and ethical standards around displaying 3rd party content?
I remember a few years ago there was controversy ...
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Putting altered social media logo icons on my website, can I get sued?
I would say most websites with a somewhat thought-through graphical design use social media icons (i.e Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) which are altered to fit the theme and design of the site.
Now, ...
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Can company "Elephant" legally take the domain "elephant.chat" away from the company "ElephantChat"?
Related, but not as specific: Can a company take my domain away from me?
In this scenario:
I am making a chatting app called "Elephant Chat", and I bought the domain elephant.chat for my app - under ...
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Is it legal and ethical to remove license notices from third-party code?
I want to use third-party code as my front-end framework, for example Bootstrap. In the code for Bootstrap and jQuery, there's a license. For example in boostrap.css:
/*!
* Bootstrap v3.0.3
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Using competitors domain with different ending to boost traffic
Imagine my competitor is getting 1000s of views a day and is established in Google search engine.
I plan to launch my website in a weeks time but will have to work hard to get into google search ...
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Website "theft" - what is the best way of dealing with these individuals?
I was doing a duplicate content search on the web for our site content and found that someone has downloaded/mirrored our entire website and is hosting it on a subdomain of their own main domain. When ...
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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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What do I need to do to enable my site to accept credit cards?
I want to store my customers' credit card information in my database so that they can quickly check out again without having to re-enter their info. What do I need to know about security/https/etc to ...
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Where to store users consent (EU cookie law)
We are legally obliged in a few months to obtain consent from users to allow us to store any cookies on the users PC.
My query is, what would be the most effective way of storing this consent to ...
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Why is the EU cookie directive causing so much excitement?
I am confused by all the excitement surrounding the EU cookie directive; why is it such a painful thing?
As far as I can see cookies that are required for your site to function are allowed such as ...
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Countering a DMCA removal from Google Search for a root category page
A category page got a Notice of DMCA removal from Google Search, submitted through Lumen Databases, for a copyright infringing thumbnail. We have noticed this is becoming a pattern and category root ...
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Legal information on a website
I'm in the process of re-developing my website.
We're currently a non-monetary website, funded entirely by ourselves, but we'd like to start earning some money from adverts and possibly paid content.
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Who is affected by the EU cookie law?
Every source on the web keeps telling me what the cookie law is, but not whether I have to obey it or not. So I'm asking here: who must obey the cookie law?
Is a website hosted by a server physically ...
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MediaWiki and EU cookie consent
I own a MediaWiki website that is showing Google AdSense. As of September 30th 2015 AdSense requires compliance with the EU cookie law.
The Google Adsense Team is pointing to https://www.google.com/...
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Copyright word or symbol
After reading this post I was wondering which is best to use for websites out of the following,
Copyright © 2010 "COMPANY"
© 2010
Copyright 2010
Also, if we license everything we produce ...
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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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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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What's the legal way to stream music online?
It's really hard getting a definite answer on this so I'm going to ask it here. Is there a legal way to stream new music on a website without getting artist consent first. There seems to be a lot of ...
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Does a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License" classify a nonprofit as a "commercial entity"?
If something this license applies to is used by a nonprofit, is the nonprofit considered a "commercial entity"?
Because the license says:
"NonCommercial — You may not use the material ...
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How can I use Google web fonts statically instead of dynamically?
In Germany, lawyers can legally demand money from people who use dynamic web fonts on their websites, if they do not ask the user for permission. (Because of IP data storage.) I used to have this code ...
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Can I use the words Python, Ruby, or Perl in a domain name?
I was wondering, can I use any of the following words in a commercial domain relating to that specific industry?
www.xxxxxPython.com
Python doesn't seem to be trademarked as this word and also there ...
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How copyright laws apply for commonly public things?
I am making website which display quotes like brainyquote.com.
So how copyright laws affected in this situation?
I know that all quotes ( I have around 10,000+ quotes) are on the different ...
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Is it legal republish any article with Credits and Canonical Link?
Is it legal republish any article with Credits and Canonical Link?
After the end of the post I will mention a note like Originally published at www.example.com/post.
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Is it legal to cache RSS images on my server?
I have some RSS feeds showing on my website, for speed up loading time I like to cache images directly on my server.
Is it legal to credits the source inside the post and store images from those ...
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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 at http://menplus.vn and is now being hosted on a .vn (Vietnam) domain.
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Getting around US law [closed]
Let's suppose that someone is interested in starting a website that might be in violation of some US laws (such as copyright, gambling, pornography, etc.). I know this question isn't in the best taste,...
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