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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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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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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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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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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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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 there any law for using unlicensed or cracked software?
Is there any law for using unlicensed or cracked software for our personal use?
Can we use cracked versions of software in organization?
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Who's liable for copyright infringement when hiring a design company?
If company A pays company B to create an ad/logo/video/etc. and then uses it, what happens if company B used copyrighted material without obtaining the necessary permissions, unbeknown to company A? ...
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How risky is it to mail DVDs of pirated movies to other countries?
This is 100% hypothetical!
If somebody in the USA ships DVDs with pirated movies on them to some country overseas, for example the UK, could the recipient or the sender get into trouble by whoever it ...
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