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Tagged with united-kingdom copyright
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Can an open source licence be revoked if it violates employer's IP?
Suppose a developer's contract says that all intellectual property (IP) rights to her code belong to her UK employer. While employed, she develops a library and open-sources it under the Apache 2.0 ...
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Hiring part-time IT contractors who are under an IP assignment clause in their day contract
I plan to engage a contract developer part-time in the UK through his own Ltd. He's currently contracting in the day time for a software company. My project is in a very different area. However, that ...
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Commissioning work: Who owns the rights in this scenario?
My Colleague is currently in debate with someone they previously worked with last year in collaboration, under who owns the rights to the items in the following scenario.
The scenario is:
A group of ...
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Is making a home music server legal?
I am planning to make a Local-Area-Network personal music server program.
The idea is that the program lets you host your music so you can stream it from any of your devices on your local network (...
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Data Scraping public athlete name and performance data. Does this need to be treated as personal data?
Consider the following data for amateur/professional athletes:
Athlete name,
Athletic event + best performance data
e.g.:
Joe Bloggs
5k 19:00
10k 40:00
Half Marathon 85:00
other events etc...
and ...
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Am I allowed to reverse engineer/decompile a computer program?
I would like to gather information about how something works from a computer program and use it in my own. However, there is a software licence that forbids it.
Except as and only to the extent ...
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What recourse do I have when someone has bought an old domain of mine, and mirrored my content (badly)?
I am based in the UK and I have run the opendomesday.org website as a free, non-profit history site for many years.
When I originally built the site, about 8 years ago, I registered it at domesdaymap....
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Write Play based on translation
I am in the midst of writing a play based on the Persian poem Layla and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi. To do this I plan to make use of quotes from an English translated version of the poem. Archive.org ...
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Is a shop that prints your photos on cakes allowed to print photos including people wearing (licensed) brand t-shirts?
A large supermarket chain in the UK allows you to have photos printed on to cakes (they print it onto a layer of icing, then stick that on a cake). It's someone's special birthday and my wife took in ...
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Derivative softwares copyrigths from a more generic software
Imagine consultancy C has a generic software for analyzing data S.
Now C has a client C1 and from the software S it derives a software S1 to analyzed some specific data for C1. The overall dependency ...
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Copyright on code from public source
Let's imagine consultancy A develops a code for client B that use some free available code from a website so it's a derivative work from the free code (MIT license). Can consultancy A re-use the same ...
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software copyright : implementing the same class structure but for different specific clients and purpose
Let's assume the same consultancy implements for client A a software to analyze text data from internal communication of the company. The client B asked the same software to analyze text data from ...
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Can I register a trademark after leaving a company in the UK?
I've been working on a new product for a company as a software developer (creating it from scratch). I've come up with a name for it as well which my manager didn't tell me to do but I decided to be ...
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Can copyrighted work be distributed for free if it was done so by the owner previously?
Once upon a time a UK music band put one of their songs on their website for free download. Time has passed, the website has changed drastically and the song is not available there anymore. Neither it ...
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Commercial "natural language processing" algorithm on TV shows
I am thinking of running an algorithm on TV shows which will output a written account of each show's contents. An example would be a written copy of the recipe used in a cooking show, which would be ...
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