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Personally i agree with the morals that are in play when it comes to piracy, i worked under the supervision of an I.T administrator at my company, and typically we dealt with a couple of programs that require volume licensing to be purchased. but there were also programs that had a blind eye turned on whether or not the company should invest in licensing for ...
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So, first of all, if A is a director, recognize that he will be involved in the business -- the board can delegate day-to-day decision making to the officers, but the board is ultimately responsible for the company's actions.
Secondly, you're mixing up some C- corp and S- corp ideas. In an S-corp, the IRS does not want owners coming along and saying "I ...
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I'm not a lawyer and not a tax professional, do verify everything with a licensed attorney and a CPA in California.
1 - A is the only Shareholder and the only Director owning 100% equity.
Fine,
2 - A will only be a passive investor who does not participate in the operations of the business at all.
Fine (as long as its a C corp).
3 - A ...
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Firstly I am not qualified to practice law in US so this is not a legal opinion.
However I can give you some case law on how courts have (sometimes confusingly) seen links. Basically the problem with many "free" services is that they need to monetarise your eyeball. In the past, courts have ruled that
deep-linking of content (no-no) where you have the ...
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To a certain extent this depends on the country you are in. The main test that tends to be applied is to ask if it would be "reasonable" for the man on the street to confuse the one brand or product for another.
It may be worth investigating if other companies in other sectors use an icon that is similarly styled. If there are many companies using a ...
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Here is now this type of situation typically rolls out:
The developer provides all available written documentation supporting the proposition that he owns all rights.
If the other party is concerned about any holes, the other party provides additional documents and asks the developer to have them signed by the relevant individuals or entities.
Irrespective ...
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Typically they would just want a document admitting in writing that you in fact do own all of the IP and that should their be any IP infringement the penalty / punishment will be on you.
Assuming you wrote all of the code and any open source code you used were released under MIT or some license that allows you to write commercial software based on it ...
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There's no way to avoid it in California. LLC members/Corporate officers is a public record.
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Create an LLC in Wyoming or Nevada using a registered agent. Both states allow you to hide the identity of the owners. However, hiring a registered agent may prevent your personal information from showing up in these directories.
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Trademarks need to be explicitly registered in each country to be eligible for protection. The cost is dependent on how many countries (and categories) you want to market your services and have the legal recourse against dilution. And that doesn't include policing it either.
participated in contests/incubators/events in different countries where the ...
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I wish there was an easy answer (I did my law thesis on the Australian Spam Act). You mention opt-OUT (presumptively you're in US) but many other jurisdictions to opt-IN ... ie you need to get permission BEFORE sending them unsolicited messages. The EU recently debating & revising the Data Protection Directive, and if the email contains "personal" ...
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This is a bit of a long reach ... but with the crowd-funding act now passed and SEC working on guidelines, perhaps you may consider using the social web to leverage your philothranpic activities. I'll toss an idea at you ... social-goals which in essence separates targetting from funding and implementation. Despite its flaws, one of the major structures of ...
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Good heads up in your blog article there! I would like to to know exactly how my affiliation with the business can be easily searchable by anyone on the internet. It seems that if I incorporate a business, then a quick internet search would reveal the business affiliation to me due to these people who obtain/sell this information on the net. This concerns ...
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Steve gives the correct legal answer, but setting that aside, I'd ask you what is your obligation to the guy paying your salary? Obligation has many different aspects, moral, professional even societal expectation. In the West we have duty to render performance. However I have observed other countries where employee loyalty is so scarce it's past the ...
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No.
It should be on any contracts, however, or other legal documents.
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Perhaps you could calculate the percentage based on what it would be if you did include vesting from day one. Considering that you left after six months typically you would get nothing because most vesting kicks in after one year. (E.g. 25% after first year and 25% each additional year prorated monthly.) However, you could consider a vesting schedule, e.g. ...
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The entire discussion, not just the details, belongs in the Operating Agreement.
Why are you inclined to address this subject in the Articles of Organization? The reason you cannot find an example to copy is because you want to do something that no one who is knowledgeable wants to do.
Please pardon my bluntness, but it is evident that you lack the ...
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Plain English works fine. I found a template for my Articles of Organization by googling 'sample llc operating agreement filetype:pdf'. This was several years ago (I would show you mine but I can't find my digital copy), and it was a pdf. I re-wrote the entire document in MS Word because the copy and paste functionality produced weird formatting. Anyway, the ...
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The reason you cannot find any is because in most countries (you didn't mention yours, so its hard to tell exactly) it would be considered as practicing law, and requires the provider of such a document to be a lawyer and you to be his client.
So, if you want specialized documents with specific terms and conditions - you'll have to get a lawyer and have him ...
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For the large media companies, there's usually a formal process
- a) identify the copyright "owner" ... this may not be straightforward as the site/location where you sourced the image from may only be a redistributor
b) some basic steps are look at the metadata for the (C) sign, trademarks pasted over the image are another strong signal.
c) work out what ...
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You really can't battle widespread, systemic ethical issues. I suggest you visit a good law college close to the city you work in and seek advice from the professors there. You may get referrals to better legal services. Who knows one of them may even be willing to consult for you once in a while.
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The answer depends in part on your jurisdiction and in part on your contract, written or implied, with your employer, and maybe on the contracts between the other parties, which you may not be aware of (exclusivity clauses, etc).
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In the UK there are a lot of regulations covering the handling of client monies, money laundering, accountability, etc, etc.
A UK Ltd company would be a fairly tax-efficient vehicle for this kind of business (corporation tax is relatively low, etc), although there are obviously tax-free offshore places where you can incorporate (BVI, etc).
I'm guessing ...
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You can
directly employ
subcontract (so long as clear on IP assignment)
outsource via 3rd party agent eg mechanical turk
The difference is the degree of control. I cannot speak to Indian labor laws but when you typically pay a contractor, they are responsible for their own taxes, insurance etc. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, you can order ...
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A director has significant legal obligations. They need not be shareholder (that's the owner) but under corporate law play a significant part in governance and are responsible for ensuring the company is solvent. I seriously do not recommend asking a casual mate or neighbour to be director. It is possible to ask a professional firm to be nominee and even ...
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If I were the other members of the team I would be interested in buying you out.
A reasonable number might be $30,000?
You could have earned $60,000 at a normal job, but instead you took a risk and you are now folding your hand - so I wouldn't expect you to get paid more than you would have if you took the safe route.
Also, you are leaving the company ...
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As a programmer, we have generic code all the time - its usually the technical glue that holds a program together and allows it to work without actually being a program in itself. Think of a website - the web server is 'generic code', and nothing to do with the website code. The dev might want to take his equivalent of a webserver, or parts thereof, away ...
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