Questions tagged [licensing]
For questions about permission and terms to use intellectual property.
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When receiving dual-licensed content, at what point do you have to make the choice about which license terms to follow?
Suppose I receive a creative work that has been dual-licensed. One license is a standard Creative Commons license, such as CC BY-SA 4.0. The second license is a custom license that grants them "...
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Distributing Dual-Licensed content without explicit rights to relicense or sublicense the original work
Suppose I author a creative work and dual-license it to someone. One license is a standard Creative Commons license, such as CC BY-SA 4.0. The second license is a custom license that grants them "...
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Can a licence preclude class actions?
The Couchbase Community Edition License Agreement states:
You may only resolve disputes with us on an individual basis, and you may not bring a claim as a plaintiff or a class member in a class, ...
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Can I sell CC0 licensed work under a different license?
My understanding was that CC0 license - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.en removes all restrictions and I could do anything with such work.
But while reading it I noticed ...
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Can I end up bound by a copyright license I don't need?
Say I want to download some uncopyrightable data, public domain data, or data for which the copyright is not held by the person offering me the download. Maybe it's all the books in Project Gutenberg, ...
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Mechanical copyright on works-in-progress, or works that take more than 30 days to produce
If somebody (e.g. Fred) wants to produce a cover of a song, but after producing some recordings wants to e.g. solicit someone to record a backing track or other material, is there any formal process ...
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CC-BY-SA-3.0 and actions "prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation" [closed]
I'm planning to create a blog where I would publish screenshots I've made while playing Minetest Game. I'm considering making videos, too. Most generally, my goal is to understand my legal obligations ...
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Is the Acceptable Use policy of software enforceable on private uses?
There are several software that can be used to self host LLMs for private use. Is the "Acceptable Use" policy of certain LLMs (e.g. Llama 2) still applicable even through the use is private?
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BlueSky Statistics 10 now completely closed source = R-licence violation?
BlueSky Statistics 10.2 was announced to be open source like 10.0.
But now years have passed and even 10.3 is available while still no source. Also the hint – that it will be open sourced at some ...
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MP4 and h264 licensing requirements? [closed]
I'm working adding functionality to an application that will record a video stream (streamed from a file) and write it to a newly recorded file using FFmpeg functionality. The files customers provided ...
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Can a computer software that supports custom themes come with the color scheme from the UI of a video game pre-installed?
I already know that color schemes aren't subject to copyright unless they are complex enough, but that they can be protected by trademark under certain cases and uses. Can a computer software made by ...
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Is use of gradients background images legal?
Is using free gradients as backgrounds for users to generate images on my website legal?
Example: User selects a background option (a gradient background), enters text and can download the/an image ...
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Software license: Interpretation of the word "application"?
Considering terminology such as
"...you may use the software to develop and test your applications..."
What is a reasonable interpretation of the word "application"?
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Creative commons non-commercial license impact on copyright owner's rights
The Creative Commons license CC-NC 4.0 variants (e.g., CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) state:
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
As the creator/rights holder, am I allowed to use ...
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Could Sony have gotten away with not giving out refunds for Concord legally?
Concord a digital game was sold as a license, which they can terminate at any time.
Due to low players numbers they stopped selling the game, took the servers offline and refunded everyone who bought ...
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