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Literary translation and copyright
A US friend would like to translate literary works published in Farsi. What should they do (if anything) to ensure this is legal assuming the works are not yet in the public domain?
Or do the ...
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Publish a vocabulary list from a Korean Comic
I'm learning Korean through comics. So everytime I read a chapter, I always make an extensive vocabulary list containing an English translation for each Korean word in that chapter.
My question is: ...
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German Online Law [closed]
Since moving to Germany you're always faced with stories of fees to pay upon internet usage (streaming movies, z-library, google adblocker add-on, VPN add-on etc.) what's the punishable acts online in ...
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Can a Japanese Company sue another Japanesse Company in US Court?
The company Pocketpair recently released a game that many allege violates Nintendo's IP rights. My friends and I were discussing the situation when I brought the Idea-Expression Dichotomy, a feature ...
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is it legal to monetize a translation of a foreign song
Suppose I find a copyright-protected song that has not been released in English. Could I release and monetize an English translation/interpretation of this song?
Is it possible to copyright my ...
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What countries don't have fair use in copyright law?
I know that Japan is one of these countries without fair use, are there any others?
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Is an image published in a book in Australia in 1925 public domain in the US?
I want to use an art image that was published in Australia in 1925 and publish it in the US.
Australian copyright law states that the image is protected for 70 years after the artist's death, who died ...
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What legal questions must be answered to determine the international copyright status of generated art?
Below is my best understanding of how art is generated by machine learning. I understand that the copyright ownership of the final product and any infringement in the process is currently an open ...
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Can a person be held liable for copyright infringement for sharing a meme on social media?
This has been a topic of debate in recent years, as memes often include images or videos that are copyrighted. Some argue that sharing a meme constitutes fair use, as it is typically used for comedic ...
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Creative commons license on sheet music of classical pieces and performing in public
Suppose that there is a piece of classical music (let's say written by Bach in 1726) and there is a recent arrangement (sheet music) of that piece which was made available through Creative Commons ...
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How to determine which national copyright legislation applies if I put someone else's work online? [duplicate]
Suppose there is a work by author A, whose copyright expires tomorrow (i.e. it goes into public domain) in their country of birth C1. I upload it (tomorrow) online on a blogging site by a company E ...
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Which country has jurisdiction over copyright violations?
If an individual registers an LLC or S Corp in a country with lenient copyright laws and lives in a country that takes copyright more seriously, which country has jurisdiction over that individual - ...
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Are commercially published British fashion plates from early 1800s in Britain in public domain in USA?
I'm designing a deck of card that will incorporate many British fashion plates from roughly 1790 to 1825. The magazines in which they were published have gone out of business long ago.
I am working ...
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Is there any safe Threshold of originality internationally for copyright?
I'm maintaining a web service where we ask everybody to accept the EULA (which includes required license to share the user submitted content within the site) before we accept any permanently stored ...
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Transcription law
(I'd be interested in UK, US, or any internet/international biased opinions here; as well as anything I could further ready up on!)
Let's assume a physical Text exists.
Is it legal for person A to ...
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How does multinational criminal copyright infringement get settled?
Let's say,
The plaintiff, lives in the UK and published a literary work (e.g. A Book)
The defendant, a corporation headquartered in the US, wilfully infringing plaintiff's copyright worldwide.
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Is it legal to copy the KJV?
If I understand correctly, the King James Version of the Bible is copyrighted in the UK but nowhere else. I live in the US. If I upload a copy of it to my Web site (which is hosted in the US), is that ...
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How is the GNU Unifont and other bitmap fonts public domain?
The U.S. doesn't recognize type design as a copyrightable thing, only vectorized fonts, but what does that really mean?
Is a bitmap font made in the United States public domain abroad?
Are only the ...
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Are there any countries without copyright?
Are there any countries that do not recognize any form of copyright, and you could legally (for example) strip the DRM from a just-released movie and share it online?
If so, what happens if I (a US ...
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Are works created by US government employees in the performance of their duties treated as public domain outside the US?
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred ...
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Is the Scarborough Fair Melody Really in the Public Domain?
According to Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarborough-Fair-Melody.png
the melody to the tune Scarborough Fair (which had been popularized in the 1960s by Simon and ...
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What is the copyright status, in the US, of the old USSR textbooks?
The textbooks published in the USSR had their copyright listed as "The Ministry of Education of the USSR." I am not interested in the "author rights." I am only interested in the ...
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How is videogame medium protected by copyright in practical terms?
Before some people get all worked up, the question is being asked in the context of modding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_piracy
Video game piracy is the unauthorized copying and ...
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How important is the © symbol in copyright notices?
Many years ago, probably some time around 1990, a lawyer was sent around my employer (in the UK) to brief all the programmers about the need to include a proper copyright notice at the top of every ...
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Conflicting different country laws when browsing the Internet, as you connect to servers worldwide [duplicate]
When a user browses the Internet, downloads or views content and websites, which law are they under, the law from its own country, from where they are browsing the Internet, or the law from the ...
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Creating a cover song for a video game
Based on some cursory internet searches, I understand the following:
If you create a cover song, you still need a license for it from whoever owns the original song.
If you want to put a song in a ...
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Are Gutenberg books illegal to sell in Germany or any non-US countries?
I am building an eBook reading service (paid) and I aim to distribute free classics available on Gutenberg Project. (at least for the start)
I have gone through all Gutenberg terms which allows me to ...
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Who owns the work created on freelance platforms like Fiverr?
Imagine this scenario: I go on Fiverr and hire an artist to create a piece of artwork for me. Everything went well, the artist created the piece, I'm happy with it and I paid for it.
Now, who owns the ...
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Should I ask author/publisher for permission if I want to create a free game out of the book?
I want to create a free and open-source (licensed with GNU (A)GPL v3) using the plot and maybe the title of the book. I won't sell it and will have no income from it. I have some questions:
Should I ...
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Adaptations of partially expired copyright in some countries
Let's say that there are 2 (hypothetical) countries with different copyright durations:
Country A has a copyright duration of Life + 70 years.
Country B has a copyright duration of Life + 50 years.
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