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How would one go about a DBA on the internet?

AFAIK a DBA (Doing business as) needs to be for the target market, not for the place of the business. If I'm wrong, that's that. If I'm correct, then how would one who is selling over the internet to (...
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What are the liabilities of inadvertently copying and storing illegal pornography?

I'm a software developer who has been working on a yet-to-be released content filtering application. One of the filtering categories is of course pornography, and once upon a time I decided I was ...
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Section 184 of the Canadian Criminal Code and Foreign Actors

This is inspired by recent events, but I will not be naming names. My understanding of section 184 is that people in Canada are allowed to intercept communications by any means provided that they ...
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Is there a specific law protecting undersea cables?

It is in the news that the Yemeni republic are saying the Houthis may target the undersea communication cables that run through the red sea. Shipping is protected by specific international treaties ...
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Do I need to present a GDPR banner to IP addresses outside of GDPR regions?

The context of my question comes from this comment: The problem with solving GDPR compliance with country codes is, it is not in general sufficient to determine if a user is covered by the GDPR. The ...
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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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Are Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines allowed to copy website text because of the copyright fair use exception? [duplicate]

These sites certainly send bots out that copy the entirety of websites by stepping through links and then store the entirety of websites in databases. Then they show any part of a quote from a website ...
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Ensuring Worldwide Legal Compliance for an App

When selling an app, developers need to meet the legal requirements of each country in which they sell the app. In practice, this seems like an impossible task because there are so many different ...
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If a crime happens between two parties in different countries over the internet, what laws apply? [duplicate]

Lets say, for the sake of example, it's a severe crime (punishable by jail time) in the United States to say that someone stinks. Person A is from Brazil where no such law exists Person B is from the ...
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On the Term "Commercial Use" and the Usage of an Apparently Free Font

I am in the process of finishing up a book which I anticipate will be published in the United States. For the book's cover, I would like to make use of a font that is freely downloadable; and, as far ...
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Is it illegal to give advice to a 17 year old girl who wants to pursue a 50 year old man once she turns 18?

I met a girl on an internet forum who expressed how she at 17 years old liked an older man (a 50 year old). As I am someone who had a similar experience (but I was an 18 year old woman, so legal) she ...
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International sexting and suicide threaths

Im here asking for someone very dear to me whose been struggling with something similar. So let's take this as a hypothethical question. Let's assume a girl (18 from Slovakia) and a boy (17 from ...
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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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Does the federal government of USA have any powers over functioning of ICANN

Since the very inception of the internet, as we know it today, USA had a pivotal role to play including in the management of DNS (Domain Name System). However internet evolved to be more free. However,...
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Internet Domains and Trademarks

I have owned a domain in the U.S. for last sixteen years. A foreign entity, who started operations in their country of origin (in Europe), filed a conflicting trademark in their own country in the 70'...

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