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How can I make a fan game entirely legally?
I would like to make a video game based on IP I do not own. I understand that there are many legal issues with this and it seems that most of the answers online are either “you can never do it” or “nobody will catch you”. I would like to know what…
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How long can I let other people's mail sit in my house?
I sometimes get first class mail addressed to other people. The right way to handle this is to write "not at this address" on it and send it as outgoing mail.
How fast do I need to do this? Can I pile up all the misdelivered mail and deal with it as…
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What is the difference between "murder", "manslaughter" and "homicide"?
Do "murder", "manslaughter" and "homicide" have different legal definitions? Or are they just terms referring to the same act used in different jurisdictions?
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Is there any merit in the argument "this data processing is required for my business model so it is strictly necessary in terms of data protection"?
The company BlockAdblock has an argument that their anti-adblock script is compliant with EU data protection law. It is quite long and has many somewhat unrelated aspects, and I certainly do not want to get into the specifics of the case. There is…
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How would mathematical demonstratives be used in a court?
I remember in a children´s show when I was little that one episode featured a court case where the villain was accused of having too much land area in contravention of the laws of the town they were in. Part of the point of the story was to tell…
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Is it legal to backdate monthly software license fees if you reactivate a license?
I live in the UK and use software from a US-based company. I currently pay a software licence fee of $150 every six months.
This covers access to support and access to monthly software updates, new features, security and bug fixes.
They are now…
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Has anyone been charged with a crime committed in space?
Has anyone, in any jurisdiction, ever been charged with a crime for acts (allegedly) committed in outer space?
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Why the same-sex marriage Supreme Court decision applies also to Puerto Rico when the Fourteen Amendment does not apply to territories?
This is in relation to a comment on this question that I also made.
In one of the comments, one of the users made this statement:
The Fourteenth Amendment talks about states (and Puerto Rico is not one), not about the federal government. "No State…
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Do schools have permission to use pictures containing my face taken inside school forever if I agreed to it?
On day one of my first year in high school me and basically every other students were given a few documents to sign. One of them included a clause that allowed the school to publish pictures of us doing activities on the school website. Back then I…
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From what age may children walk home alone from an activity/sport in Germany?
In the UK, there are strict safeguarding rules for children. If a child is not picked up after school or an activity by their parents or caregivers, the teachers need to wait until they are picked up and their responsibilities are clear to ensure…
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Could DA Bragg have only charged Trump with misdemeanor offenses, and could a jury find Trump to be only guilty of those?
My understanding is that one of the most legally controversial parts of DA Bragg's indictment of former President Trump is the decision to elevate the charges of falsifying business records — ordinarily a misdemeanor under New York state law — to…
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Is murder unconstitutional?
I've heard a number of times now that the U.S. Constitution regulates the government and not private entities. This is why, for example, private organizations can limit free speech but the government cannot.
I got to thinking: Is murder…
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Who owns copyright of a photo taken by a camera after the timer is set to 10 seconds?
Who owns copyright of a photo taken by a camera after the timer is set to 10 seconds? Is it the person who set the timer? But he/she didn't take any picture. A machine did.
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Does how a court interpret a contract depend on whether it's a layman or expert who wrote the contract?
The title sort of says it all, I'm wondering if a contract would be read differently or more literally if written, or signed, by a trained lawyer then if it was done by layman.
So let's say that I sign a contract with someone that has an ambiguous…
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Death Threats on the Internet
I recently read a bunch of stories about people making shooting/bomb threats on the internet and being arrested for it. These are often written in a matter-of-fact way.
But I know I have also seen people also make death threats in a joking context,…
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