Questions tagged [digital-content]
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Is Apple violating any specific rights of mine by preventing me from taking a fair use screenshot?
Apple's Safari web browser prevents you from taking a screenshot of DRM (Digital Rights Management) content, such as Netflix movies, by blacking out that part of screen (when taking screenshot) which has the movie (as seen the the screenshot).
This…
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Is "digital dropshipping" legal?
For example, there is a game on Steam for $15 and my site would sell it for $20, but I don't actually own the game, just buy it from Steam and take the $5 profit. Is this legal? Also, if it is, how can I check if it's permitted by the original…
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What are the repercussion for making uncensorable social media?
I'm intending to make and publish an experimental platform where user-generated content (UGC) is uncensorable and permanent. Although tech promotes itself as such, like the omnipotence paradox, man cannot create something that man cannot destroy.…
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The copyright issue of a movie review on YouTube
I want to review one part of a movie (less than 15 min of it) in my channel in YouTube. I will review the part from a different angle, interpret it differently from a psychological and philosophical point of view. Would YouTube make my video…
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How illegal would it be to use fictional locations, companies, etc. from a video game in a different video game?
Let's say I wanted to create a knock-off GTA-esqe game.
If I wanted to use locations like Los Santos, San Andreas, Blaine County, Paleto Bay, etc. would there be any IP concerns?
If I wanted to use fictional company names (such as Merryweather…
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Are there EU consumer protections on annual subscription renewals for digital content?
A year ago I had subscribed on an annual basis to an expensive online platform based in Portugal. I used it a few times in the first 6 months, found it the information provided to be inaccurate and unhelpful, and ended up forgetting about it…
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Legality of obtaining stolen digital content
Suppose I buy a stolen video game account and then get caught.
Obviously, the police wouldn’t really care about a game account but that’s just my example.
The reason I am wondering is because couldn’t you just argue that you didn’t know it was…
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Can we use images from Wikimedia Commons in a product that we sell?
Say we are creating an educational application that needs to use a number of images as part of its lessons. Since it would be prohibitively expensive if we had to hire an artist to create all the necessary images, would it be legal to use images…
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Liability when using content from third party content distributor
There are sites that offer images and music that is supposedly usable without paying any royalities (for youtube videos, placeholder images, and so on). The content is uploaded by third party (from my point of view) users to this site and the site…
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What happens when someone changes their license on an image (or other file) and you are actively using it on your website?
Say I find a CC0 (public domain) or other Creative Commons Share Alike (permissive license) image on Flickr or the web. Or any asset/file really, that is under a permissive "you can use this royalty-free/copyright-free/etc. for commercial…
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Copyright situation of small parts of different YouTube videos put together creatively?
In my YouTube channel I want to make a video about topic x. Now I find that in a number of other videos on YouTube there are content about x. I take small parts of each of these videos (a couple of minutes each at most) and make my own video. I…
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Video editing software - how does law deal with that?
In the recent past, I would expect a video to be admitted as part of evidence to prove a crime.
However, recently especially with AI, video fabrication and video editing have become so capable to the point that its hard to determine the truthfulness…
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Digital piracy laws in UK
Can someone shed some light on the possible consequences of downloading copyrighted material (pirated movies / music / video games) from the internet in UK?
What I've been able to find is this legislation, that says it's an offense to distribute…
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Self defence and internet laws basically
If Mrs A posts a joke on TikTok about using a deodorant spray as self defense, would that be termed illegal in the uk
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