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Can a website incur liability for linking to a funding campaign for a lawsuit against it?

A large website that hosts user-created content has recently announced that it is redacting links to a fundraising campaign for a lawsuit against it "under direction from [its] legal team." Is there a theory of liability under which there is some…
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Why does Disney omit the year in their copyright notices?

I was trying to sort a stack of movies chronologically. Most boxes contain a copyright notice e.g. “(c) 1985 Acme Pictures LLC“. However, Walt Disney Pictures consistently omits the year, e.g. “(c) Disney”. Why does Disney do things differently?…
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Is it defamatory to publish nonsense under somebody else's name?

Imagine that a supposedly academic journal intentionally publishes an AI-generated article which is full of claims which are easily verifiable nonsense to any expert in the field. The article is published under the name of a real academic who works…
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If I have posted my own "homebrew" content on RPG.SE, and plan to publish it (after revising based on feedback), what credits am I required to give?

I have posted numerous homebrew features on Role-playing Games Stack Exchange, and I have used advice gotten from that site to balance most of them. If, one day, I publish the subclass, would I be required to give any or all of the following…
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What is the copyright status of a journal article written more than 70 years ago?

I read (mostly on Wikipedia), that copyright to a written work expires 70 years after the author's death, or 95 years after the publication by a corporation. Having said that, the status of journal articles (scientific or other), that includes…
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Are the Quotations in a Book of Quotations Copyrighted?

I have a book of quotations that displays a 1967 copyright. I would like to use some of them in a current work of mine that I intend to publish. Many of the quotations in the 1967 book I can trace back to sources, the copyrights of which have…
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Someone is commercially using a feature of my (free) website. What can I do?

Suppose tht there is a website that allows users to create musical diagrams (sheet music). It is owned and operated by a person O. Suppose the website allows users to create and share sheet music. All of the website is completely free (no…
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Legality of online publishing of public records containing home addresses of large #'s of people?

Suppose that: (1) a person living in Washington state receives a large number of documents from a public records request, each containing names and mailing addresses (for hundreds of thousands of people in total), along with a variety of other data;…
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In which jurisdictions is publishing false statements a codified crime?

Whereas publishing false statements can often be a civil wrong (e.g. libel/defamation), I am seeking examples of where it has been criminalised and codified. Limitations: Reasonably genuinely democratic jurisdictions. Not interested in…
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Are Word-Frequency lists copyrightable?

If someone generates word frequency lists somehow. For example by analysing a web corpus or data from keyboards. Is this form of list of words and their frequencies copyrightable? For example if someone chose to publish this list online, can this be…
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What is the copyright law pertaining to photographs of 19th century paintings where the painters have been dead for over 100 years?

I want to publish a book where I pair my modern day photographs of ruined abbeys with paintings of the same abbeys by 19th century artists. The paintings are presented as photographs found on the internet. All the painters are credited by name, even…
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Does the DMCA takedown procedure apply if the original work is not online?

I am referring to this situation: document B is alleged to infringe the copyright of document A. Document B is hosted online (as I believe is necessary for the DMCA to apply). Document A, the original work, is not online e.g. it is a printed book…
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Posthumous publishing

My deceased father wrote three novels and my sister and I now possess the manuscripts for two. What copyright law applies if we were to publish these works? He has been dead for thirteen years and left his wife, our stepmother as his sole heir,…
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Is citing research publications in a blog post enough, or are there additional rights one must obtain?

Say someone is writing a blog post on some science topic, and wants to show some mathematical expressions in the piece. What are the rights one has in showing equations that appear in published articles? I imagine if the equation is a…
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Where are the limits of creative expression in graphical data displays?

In science is is common to show someone else's peer reviewed published graph of data in ones own presentation, in the form "Previously we knew X, see this graph from Y (reference) demonstrating data Z. I go on to show...". As I understand it the…
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