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Way to first publish a work outside of the US in the Internet era
Suppose that I live outside of the US and have a standalone website where I post original works created by myself: photos, articles, software sources, music etc. The site is hosted outside of the US ...
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US extradition or domestic prosecution of US based foreign cyber crime?
I’m a cybersecurity professional familiar with the extradition of foreign cyber criminals to the US. But what if the situation were flipped? Given the following scenario what would likely happen?
US ...
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Why OpenBazaar is legal and Silk Road was busted? [duplicate]
I don't get it. Why OpenBazaar is considered legal and LE is ok with OB2, but Silk Road was the devil inside. Is it due the the ways it did marketing.
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How to ensure that no one can copy my app design and name
Can an application developer from outside the USA prevent other developers in the US from copying the name and design of the application? How will this work?
How can a developer who has published a ...
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
if I used United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for my game name and publish google play store then in this world no one can use my name to publish both App Store and google play or ...
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Is it legal for a website to require registration in order to submit a DMCA?
This is about one of the big file sharing websites that currently has 30+ links to my original content. I sent them an official DMCA, they replied to make a registration on their website and use their ...
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Excluding all people from the EU from my blog - is this allowed?
There's a new law from the European Union I simply cannot comply with (GDPR).
Its way to complex, not even big companies can comply with it. I also don't know what google does with the data from my ...
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Which country's law applies when scraping / crawling web pages?
I'm interested in the legal aspects of gathering (scraping) data from web pages with web robots / scrapers / crawlers. I am not sure which country's law applies in the case that a website is hosted in ...
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Choosing Domain Name and Avoiding Lawsuit?
So say I wanted to create the blog "TheSportLad" that is about sport news and "Lad" as in (young man). Say there is a small blog called "TheSportLand" also doing some news about sports. Would I be ...
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International sexting: how often is sexting overseas prosecuted? (Please read details)
I am asking for someone dear to me. This will be a hypothetical example.
Hypothetically, if a 19 year old male (living overseas, say in Turkey) sexts/exchanges nudes with a female who says she is 18 ...
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Can arrival/departure stamps on an expired passport be used in court to prove someone wasn't in the country?
Can arrival/departure stamps on an expired passport be used in court to prove someone wasn't in the country and is therefore innocent?
Hypothetical question: For example, if someone commits an ...
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Do courts have jurisdiction over online service providers from overseas?
Consider this pretty common scenario: company (or person) A, incorporated/residing in country X, provides online services all over the world. Technically, the services do not require any physical ...
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Is it legal to bypass location restrictions on web sites?
Some web sites refuse to offer content to connections which appear to them to be coming from certain countries (or all countries but one, or offer different content based on the apparent location of ...
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What is the relation between Trademarks and Domains?
For what I have read here, I understood that if I buy a domain of an already registered trademark (in which country, by the way?), I might have a problem at hands.
But it is not clear to me what ...
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On what grounds can a government delegalise the use of specific software and is that compliant with international laws?
As I read in the "Government use" section in the VPN blocking article on Wikipedia. It seems that Iran and China (used to) block access to use VPN software. I'd like to widen the scope of the question ...
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