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83 views

Is it legally right to put movie/music/games cover art on a website?

We want to launch a website where we put information about movies, music and more. Each item (movie, music etc.) will have it's own page. On this page there will be some information about the item, ...
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1answer
54 views

Legality of selling recreations (website templates)

I've been doing webdesign for a couple of years now and I really enjoy designing the initial layout for my pages. That being said, I've also had some fun projects were I created "look a-likes" of ...
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3answers
320 views

Use of copyrighted brand images On commercial website

I can't seem to find any exact language on using a company's copyrighted logos on a website. I am going to make a website for a business who distributes products related to a large soda company. ...
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1answer
142 views

Will naming my website like this be a case of copyright infrigment?

I want to create a website for a particular industry. There is a term that is used quite widely in the industry - for the sake of argument, lets say the expression is "great scott". The term is used ...
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85 views

Incorporating somebody else's project in my own

Let me take a general example to demonstrate my dilemma. Say I am making a web-based project (which I am). Now I want to use some code that is used some other place already. Say I want to incorporate ...
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2answers
49 views

Protecting user's data to be used by everyone

I am planning for a website startup, in which i use the data added by the people which is accessible to every other user. Now i want to make sure that the data that has been entered by a particular ...
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2answers
59 views

When should I register as an agent to receive copyright infringement notices?

I am developing a user generated content site right now and its almost finished so I have been researching a bit on what I need to do legally. I know its going to take a lot of hard work and time to ...
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4answers
327 views

How sustainable is a website that uses stolen images?

I would like to start a website where people can discuss whatever they please. They will be allowed to upload images of the topic they're talking about. For example, a user writes a review on the ...
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1answer
50 views

website still active although supplier and trading office cancelled agreement

How can one legally make a company remove the website due to false representation. The domain belongs to the trading company as well as the company name. But the supplier has terminated the ...
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2answers
145 views

Copyright Issues With Creating “Social Search Engine”

I want to create a "social search engine" website. The idea is for people to search for jobs (or articles, or recipes -- I am necessarily targeting jobs), and be able to view them on my site, comment ...
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3answers
121 views

Creating a QA site - Becoming a lot like SE

I wanted to create a new website that was a Question and Answer site in a specific niche (one that SE is not in right now). My problem is that the more I design and create the website, the closer it ...
3
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2answers
159 views

How do you get a copyright on your web pages?

If I were to release a web app what is the procedure to procuring a copyright on it?
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4answers
282 views

Should I move forward with my idea if it is similar to someone else's?

I have two ideas for websites that basically take the same idea as some other site, but make that idea better. Kinda like Myspace being plowed by Facebook. I had the ideas on my own, but then I did ...