Legal Questions

I have recently learned how to do constraint processing and I figured out how to generate sudoku puzzles. I thought it would be interesting/fun to create an interactive website for these puzzles. I...

Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 8 '11 at 12:39

Jbranchaud
168 points

This question is related to one of my earlier posts about the ability to copyright sudokus. I have written a program that generates sudokus and I want to make a website with these sudokus. It seems...

Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 9 '11 at 01:19

Jbranchaud
168 points

I promised someone that I would enter into a contract with them in the future. Basically I promised that I'd sell them a website for a fixed price in the future. This was an informal, oral...

Contract Legal

asked Mar 23 '11 at 21:12

Picardo
116 points

Basically, why should one incorporate in the US? I'm interested in three cases: 1 - Most of the revenue and employees are in the US. 2 - Most of the employees are in the US, but the revenues...

Incorporation Legal Tax Localization

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:41

J Delage
277 points

We are interested in using digital signature in our extremely paper intensive world. However, we need the signatures to be valid digital signatures. Are there open source solutions available that...

Software Technology Legal

asked Mar 25 '11 at 07:03

Scott
468 points

I'm seeking advice in how to go about writing a disclaimer for a software service I'm developing. The software program is to record client medical treatment forms. I basically want to say...

Software Legal Business

asked Mar 27 '11 at 11:44

Emmanuel
118 points

Adobe CS5, for instance. Is the risk solely that the publisher could sue, or is the property that I create with the pirated software also in jeopardy? And as a corollary, what if I use someone...

Legal Ethics

asked Mar 28 '11 at 04:30

Amit
146 points

I am going to be starting a LLC business (wedding photography) and I was curious about the associated costs. The business will be registered in Massachusetts. I understand that an exact number may...

LLC Incorporation Legal

asked Mar 14 '11 at 14:01

Brian David Berman
140 points

Can I signup for a merchant/seller account of either Paypal, Google Checkout , Amazon Checkout using my credit card info and receive payments for the products sold online ? Would my credit card...

Ecommerce Legal Selling

asked Mar 15 '11 at 04:39

Saurabh
11 points

We're getting closer to launching our e-commerce platform, that will be hosted on our dedicated servers, provided by a well known hosting company. I suppose it's a good idea to have us covered...

Legal Privacy Terms And Conditions SLA

asked Mar 16 '11 at 16:34

Martin Hn
234 points

If I have access to a big hall/room in a building I own and I wanted to convert it into a personal gym. Then one day I say to a friend, you can use my gym if you give me $100 a year, and I will...

Payments Legal Tax

asked Mar 17 '11 at 04:23

Oshirowanen
201 points

Currently operating a very small, early-stage startup. Just received first round of seed capital and looking to expand operations this summer. I have been looking for a developer (employee #2) to...

Hiring Visa Legal

asked Mar 17 '11 at 05:43

Travis Truett
127 points

If I pay someone via paypal, do I still have to fill in the 1099 and/or w forms?

Ecommerce Finance Legal Tax

asked Mar 17 '11 at 19:00

Oshirowanen
201 points

From what I understand, I can write off up to $5000 of startup costs from the taxes I pay on my personal income... http://www.morebusiness.com/write-off-startup-costs Let's say I start a website...

Legal Tax Accountants

asked Mar 18 '11 at 01:30

Sk24iam
344 points

I'm looking to start a website to supplement my day gig. I have the ideas, funds, and skills to do pretty much everything by myself, except for the front-end design. I plan to own the site under my...

LLC Legal Website Partnerships

asked Mar 22 '11 at 07:20

User8810
13 points

I'm a super noob when it comes to this stuff, so please bear with me... I do a little freelance application development work on the side, and this has recently started to increase. I just took a...

LLC Legal

asked Mar 22 '11 at 23:39

Mike Cole
106 points

My company provides fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product. We have not bothered until now much with ToS before but with increase of fee-based clients...

Marketing Sales Legal Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 14:57

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

I recently registered a NY LLC with LegalZoom. The LLC is complete but I have to do a few things in order to have the LLC in good standing like sending back a few tax-related forms and completing...

Legal

asked Mar 6 '11 at 09:11

Matt
141 points

We are a 7-month old startup, founded by three entrepreneurs with different backgrounds. We do not have any clients yet, but the product is ready and we are already in talks with four clients. One...

Recommendations Legal

asked Mar 7 '11 at 03:13

Karan
54 points

I've been running a software startup for the last year - basically the business model is that I customize the software products released under GPL for my end customers. These customizations are...

Legal GPL

asked Mar 9 '11 at 16:51

Ajay
13 points