Copyright Questions

As an ISV/software publisher, would you produce your own licensing/copy protection solution, or would you buy into a professional solution? Which route would you choose and why?

Software Copyright Licensing

asked Jun 8 '10 at 18:59

Clare
61 points

Is there an inexpensive way of filing a patent? We talked to a couple of lawyers and the cost to file a patent is hovering around the $20K range. Is that normal? It seemed absurd at first, until...

Legal Patent Copyright Lawyer

asked Jun 20 '14 at 14:42

Gary Russell
12 points

I finished creating an app and am expecting a good amount of users after I start advertising it. I live in Canada but I have my green card and am eligible to live in the US at any time. I plan on...

Copyright Registration Sole Proprietorship Startups

asked Sep 25 '14 at 20:32

User34140
6 points

We have a small B2B application and have poured a lot of energy and resources into designing a great user experience. Our closest competitor just "overhauled" their own UX and it's a blatant rip...

Legal Competition Copyright User Interface UX

asked May 11 '14 at 18:25

Sheryl Garcia
2 points

I've been pondering over this one for quite a while now, and after doing some research, nothing appeared to come up. So, my questions is, when you use a website builder like webs, weebly, or other...

Legal Website Tools Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Dec 4 '13 at 13:23

Dylan Katz
10 points

I'm working with little funds so hiring a lawyer isn't an option. I'm starting a website like gazelle.com, nextworth.com, etc. and I was wondering if I can just use their concepts and piece...

Legal Copyright Terms And Conditions

asked Oct 30 '13 at 15:10

Colton
26 points

Given that to be protected by copyright, a picture must be original/unique, I have read on the internet that the "product pictures" (of general use products like fridge, mobile phone etc.) are not...

Legal Website Ethics Copyright

asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:07

Data Smarter
1,274 points

We had a software engineer who joined our startup for two months. We only signed an NDA with him. The engineer was supposed to get equity but our negotiations broke down and we parted ways. During...

Contract Copyright Code

asked Sep 4 '13 at 23:36

Karl
16 points

For example, if an Amazon competitor had the exact same product categories, or if a Craigslist competitor had the exact same categories...I'm mostly talking about how you categorize what you're...

Legal Copyright Trademark

asked Aug 20 '13 at 16:08

Aerovistae
115 points

I currently work within a call centre as a manager and I have a lot of admin work to complete. During my own time, at home, on my own PC I started developing a system/tool via Excel that would...

Competition Employees Side Projects Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Aug 21 '13 at 21:50

Jim Cullinane
41 points

I have an idea for a gamification/human-computing application/service which can be used to solve an AI-hard problem more efficiently, like reCaptcha. I can build and promote it, but I'm worried...

Patent Copyright

asked Jul 26 '13 at 22:06

User27171
6 points

I am currently involved in a Canadian tech startup, and as I am about to enter equity negotiations, I would like to clarify the ownership and copyright of the code base, to better understand the...

Co-Founder Technology Equity Canada Copyright

asked Jul 8 '13 at 08:55

Chris
6 points

A is currently employed at company X which in turn is a vendor for company Z. A realized that certain aspects of running the business for Z which X is failing at can be productized/offered as a...

Legal Business Copyright Intellectual Property

asked May 2 '13 at 00:32

Moonstar2001
186 points

This is a cross-post from stackoverflow; I was told you guys might be more knowlegable in this area... I have an idea for a project which, ideally, I would like to eventually make money...

Software Legal Copyright Software Licensing

asked Apr 14 '13 at 14:52

Araisbec
16 points

When local bands play songs made famous by recognizeable artists, does that violate copyrights on the lyrics, music or the recording artist's performance and recording? If so, why does it appear...

Copyright

asked Apr 14 '13 at 21:25

Patrick Moloney
126 points

I will be joining a new start-up as a technical partner. Other two partners are business administration role. I will be the one who will program everything from scratch and build the new web based...

Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Mar 26 '13 at 20:14

Abhijit Navale
245 points

I am a 50/50 owner in a small dissolving LLC. To this partnership I brought my software and through the course of several years continued to develop it. In the partnership agreement there is...

LLC Partnership Copyright

asked Mar 17 '13 at 01:16

User25503
6 points

If I create an application for a client and I am employed as a contactor to the client by a contracting firm in a different capacity, who owns the copyright?

Software Contract Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Feb 21 '13 at 02:32

Victor Clough
6 points

I am outsourcing a commercial project(software program) to elance. I was wondering if after the work is finished, I own the copyright to this work fully. This is very important since i want to make...

Legal Copyright

asked Feb 27 '13 at 15:23

Spyros P
132 points

About four months ago I asked a question about using product images (posters/cover art for movies, games, music, tv-shows and books) on a website without asking for permission. Most of the answers...

Legal Copyright

asked Feb 28 '13 at 04:17

Oskar Persson
109 points