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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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Can I share a copy of Adobe Standalone Flash Player?
As you all know by now, Flash is dead. However, people still want to play flash games. People used to be able to download the standalone adobe flash player to keep playing games flash games, but ...
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My app modifies the display of website content. Can I suggest a specific list of sites for my target audience?
I'm working on an app idea which offers users a "read view" of websites, which includes stripping the content of ads, changing font and changing the layout of sites to make it easier for ...
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Is it legal to record streaming video for time shifting?
In the UK there is an explicit exception to copyright for the purpose of time shifting:
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the ...
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Fair-use of mathematics educational YouTube series based on "Byrne's Euclid" (1847) and its latest renditions
I want to create a mathematics educational video series on YouTube based on "Byrne's Euclid" (1847), which in turn, was a rendition of "Euclid's Elements" (circa 300 BC). The ...
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Taking donations on website with copyrighted material
I have a personal website where I post educational material and it contains copyrighted material.
The legal owner requests to seek permission to use his material before anyone use it in his/her work
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Chrome Extensions That Inject Content On Retail Sites [closed]
I am prototyping a chrome extension that adds functionality to eCommerce sites. It injects HTML/JS/CSS into the page and adds UI elements that when clicked perform some sort of action.
i.e. Adding a ...
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Do search engines need permission to start searching?
I was talking to my friends a few days ago about search engines and we started discussing whether or not they need permission from websites to crawl them. I looked this one up and it said on Quora ...
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Is it illegal to remove a watermark?
Inspired by this poorly worded question on graphicdesign.stackexchange:
I want to remove a text watermark
Is illegal to remove watermarks?
Off the top of my head I can think of 3 possible legitimate ...
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Can maps from Google Maps be used in school presentation?
I'm doing a presentation for a class in college. Am I allowed to include images of Google Maps? To clarify, I'm not using the actual photographs or street views of google maps, just the street names. ...
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Is it legal to modify the display of website content?
Several apps and sites like longform and readability offer users a "read view" of other sites, which includes stripping the content of ads and changing font to make the text easier to read. I am ...
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Is it legal to post GIFs/videos of NFL plays online?
On some blogs I see GIFs or videos of certain plays from NFL games. Is it legal to create these and post them online? You always hear the disclaimer on TV about using the footage, but I see this stuff ...
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Is it legal to use Youtube thumbnails on another website?
Let's say I have a website where each page has an embedded Youtube video, and there are also a list of this web pages, can this list display those video thumbnails as the image of the link to the page ...
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Is it fair use to discuss a fictional work on a webpage?
On my for-profit website, users can rate and comment on works of literature, film, and music, most of which are copyrighted. The only information I include is:
1.) Title
2.) Release date
3.) MPAA ...
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Could a webpage about a fictional character, that reveals no detail about said character, be considered fair use?
It is my understanding that since fictional characters generally belong to copyrighted works, revealing details about a fictional character on a for-profit website falls outside of fair use and makes ...
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