Questions tagged [copyright]
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How well is Substantial Part defined in copyright law?
The UK Government says this about the relevance of substantial part to copyright law:
Infringement is where someone uses the whole or a substantial part of your work without your permission and none ...
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Is it permissible to use public domain books from Project Gutenberg on a commercial translation website? [closed]
I am developing a commercial website that offers translation services for books into various languages and includes paid subscription options for its users. I am interested in using books from Project ...
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Fair use on naking a VR TCG Viewer App from an existing TCG
There exists a TCG (Trading Card Game) with all its card art and text being hosted on their website.
Would I be ok to make an App to pull data directly from their site to display a virtual version of ...
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restoration of motion pictures [closed]
A motion picture as The Alamo 70mm this was only produced on a old Laser disc many years ago and no longer sold as a new item : the quality as only that of old crt tv sets not Digital
WE have restored ...
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Where can I access records of the 1947 Superman copyright trial?
I'm a comic researcher, seeking court records from 1947 in the United States related to Superman's copyright case. While there's a Wikipedia entry on this case, I couldn't locate the crucial court ...
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Is there any legal justification for content on the web without an explicit licence being freeware?
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI has expressed an opinion that creative works published openly on the web without an explicit licence are freeware and the restrictions of copyright do not ...
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Can a video game developer restrict how people stream game content?
I've recently come across this page published by the developers of the game Tsukihime. These "guidelines" state the following:
Please be sure to follow the provisions listed below when ...
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Is it breach of copyright to hotlink/tweet images in paywalled papers during research, criticism and review? [closed]
Many scientific papers are paywalled. A common pattern is for the abstract and low resolution images to be available to everyone, and the full paper is only available to those with access. That full ...
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Hotlinking img as profile picture
I have an img on my website which is used as the profile picture of the user.
It is embedded as <img src="${Hotlink}".
The user can specify an URL and that is used as his profile picture.
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Does using game cartridge assets on a small-scale digital distribution infringe copyright?
For example, let's say I was writing and distributing a digital zine with a 3DS game cartridge banner on the cover, and the "Nintendo Seal" and such.
Such a work is obviously not a game (due ...
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If one creates a copy of a copyrighted work for a licenced purpose can one reuse the copy for another purpose?
Multiple lawsuits have been filed relating to training of generative AI models on copyright protected works. A recent suit seems to focus particularly on this aspect. It seems there could also be a ...
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For copyright determination purposes, how can AI-generated content (eg.lyrics) be proven as such rather than human generated?
Most answers I have seen to the question of whether AI-generated content is copyrightable cite law in the US and other countries limiting copyright to human-created content. However all the answers I ...
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Is it legal in the US to name a business after a property in the public domain? [duplicate]
For example, if I were to name my LLC "Sherlock Holmes Enterprises LLC", would that be legal?
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Criminal repercussions for sellers of fake items
Say Rob is selling fake copies* of certain rare/collectable Christmas cards on UK eBay. The originals of these cards are issued in limited quantities by a certain well known artist every year (each ...
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Why is a license necessary to design a microarchitecture for the arm family of instruction set architectures?
In order to design a microarchitecture that uses the ARM instruction set architecture (ISA), one has to buy an "architectural license".[1]
However, I don't understand by what mechanism ARM ...
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