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Question concerning the legality of Software Patents
I have a question concering the public reveal of new patents filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd., and how such patents are legal given how general the concepts are, and how this would effect development of ...
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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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Selling software internationally and taxes
I'm about to go crazy due to the amount of information I have explored on this matter and still I have no answers. Anyone with at least some knowledge, please share it.
My case is very simple (I think)...
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Can I flight check-in on someone’s else behalf?
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this and if not please guide me to correct forum.
I am building a software that’ll help travellers with their flights. It’ll auto check-in to the ...
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Can a non US citizen work remotely for a US company and be under their payroll?
Some context: I've been in the US for almost 5 years under a F1 visa. In the last year I've worked under OPT for a company in the US. I have a SSN but my card says "valid for work only with DHS ...
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Which regions trademark has precedence in Google Play and Apple's app store?
If two different entities have registered the same trademark in different regions, one in the USA and the other in EU. Which of the two trademarks would have precedence within the Google Play Store ...
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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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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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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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Is my lyrics searching program illegal?
I have developed a program that scans your media folder, finds the lyrics of each song online and saves them.
To do this, my program manages to find the website where the lyrics is posted (I use ...
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Limit the usage of my software product
Given I am selling my video software online is it legal not to sell it to certain customers who are supposed to use it for processing "adult" content? If they check a tickbox before purchase where ...
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Is there a legal reason for why song identification apps can't [won't] identify some foreign music?
This question in particular concerns using SoundHound/Shazam/MusixMatch or other commercial song identification apps in the United States to attempt to identify Japanese songs, but this question is ...
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Where in the Protect America Act is it stated that the NSA can monitor all electronic communication?
There is a statement that I have heard floating around regarding the Protect America Act (2007) https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s1927/text and the powers it grants to the NSA (National ...
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Are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics enshrined in the law of any (inter)national jurisdiction?
The Three Laws are:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a
human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such ...
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