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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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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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Allowing users in embargoed/sanctioned countries to register on my site
I run a website that contains technical content and users gain access to it by purchasing a subscription. I am based in the United States, and I'm wondering what the laws are regarding sanctioned ...
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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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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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Is it legal to use Drupal, Joomla, WP, Zend Framework, jQuery icons on my page?
I would like to use Drupal, Joomla, WP and other well known recognized icons instead of written tags on my website. They would be like 16x16 pixels big.
Is this OK?
I mean it is just for information ...
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How to offer a cookie opt in/out to users? [duplicate]
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Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
I intend to use google analyticts, and as I understand it I will ...
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Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details?
Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details (Office, country and reg no etc) on a UK Based corporate website?
I know that E-Commerce websites do, under the distance selling ...
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EU Cookiee Law - Should I be worried? [duplicate]
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Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
Given that the year-long "grace period" is up in a day or two, I'm ...
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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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Laws Regarding content Hosted on your Website [duplicate]
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Am I legally liable for user generated content and comments?
As a webmaster are you legally responsible for content posted on your website. For example a forum, would ...
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SOPA PIPA CISPA and Similliar Laws
If we use non-US domain names, DNS and webhosting will we avoid these laws if any of them come to pass?
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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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Can .gov (or similar official) websites be used for partisanship?
If I were asked to design and maintain a website for a governor seeking reelection highlighting how his or her administration was helping the state to get by in "Tough economic times", would I be ...
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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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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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Facebook Promotion guidelines
Hi I want to build a Facebook promotional/competition page and just want to make 100% sure that I am within the laws governed by the Facebook Promotional Guidelines.
Here is a link to the guidelines
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 ...
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Domains, hosting and the law
Currently I live in the Netherlands. So, what if..
I register a .CN domainname and upload my website to it. Under which law is my website? The Chinese or the Dutch?
and I host my website at the Isle ...
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Do you need any special authorization to be allowed to host a porn website?
Do you need any special authorization to be allowed to host a (hardcore) porn website?
