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**Police officers do not get to order citizens to do "whatever they want"!**
In traffic stops, police often ask (in a tone that could be construed to sound like a demand) to search your vehicle during a traffic stop. More often than not, people assent even when they have illegal drugs, weapons, and all other manner... |
**Police officers do not get to order citizens to do "whatever they want"!**
In traffic stops, police often ask (in a tone that could be construed to sound like a demand) to search your vehicle during a traffic stop. More often than not, people assent even when they have illegal drugs, weapons, and all other manner... |
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* **You don't know.**
* **You can't know.**
* **And you can't force the officer to tell you.**
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<h3>Detention Status</h3>
As a practical matter, you have no way of knowing if you are compelled to follow an officer's order because you are being detained unless the officer volunteers that inform... |
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* **You don't know.**
* **You can't know.**
* **And you can't force the officer to tell you.**
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<h3>Detention Status</h3>
As a practical matter, you have no way of knowing if you are compelled to follow an officer's order because you are being detained unless the officer volunteers that inform... |
A common answer to problems and situations includes *researching your state/country's law* to check what are the perks of doing that action.
As a layman, it is difficult to do this research effectively, since it's hard to find a unique resource/channel of this information, and Legislative Language is complex and ve... |
How to effectively search laws? |
A web site's Terms of Service are not a contract but, rather, a license. [law.washington.edu][1] has an interesting discussion of contracts vs. licenses and asks the question, "Does it matter?"
In the case of a web site, the owner of the web site is granting you a license, subject to certain terms, to access the web... |
A common answer to problems and situations includes *researching your state/country's law* to check what are the consequences of a particular action.
As a layman, it is difficult to do this research effectively, since it's hard to find a comprehensive resource/channel of this information, and Legislative Language i... |
I have heard this from 3 people now and I am trying to find the law being used.
In the NYC Transit system, if a party is even questioned by NYPD (something happens where they call in your drivers license), if said person has received 2 or more tickets in the system, whether paid/case closed or not, that party is goi... |
I recently moved out of a room that I rented in a house in Oakland, California. In my lease it under terms of vacating the premise my landlord added a clause stating:
"All moving must be done in rear of driveway or pay $250 (near basement door)"
However, my parent's truck was too large to fit in his dr... |
Can a landlord dictate where I can park when moving in out of an apartment? |
My dad wants to get a drivers licence . He passed the written test. But his English listening is not perfect. We are from India btw.
So, may I legally be at the back seat of the car just in case he does not understand something ?
I know one can do this in Illinois. PLEASE do not tell me to call to the dmv and a... |
Can a person bring a translator to the driving test in Arkansas? |
Julian Assange [is currently living in the London Ecuadorian embassy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Political_asylum_and_life_at_the_Ecuadorian_embassy) to avoid being extradited to Sweden.
It's my understanding that diplomats are immune from prosecution, detention, and (presumably) extradition. Whil... |
Why doesn't Ecuador make Julian Assange an ambassador? |
Can a landlord dictate where I can park when moving in/out of an apartment? |
You are conflating the crime against the state of [possession stolen goods][1] with the common law tort against the owner for [conversion][2].
To your questions:
>How would this proceed? It seems like it would be very difficult to prove (short of getting public surveillance footage) that I even bought the item.
... |
I am an adult programmer who knows (absolutely) nothing about law.
1. What must I do to start a MMO browser game?
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I mean a massively-multiplayer online browser game similar to (for example) Travian, OGame or Tribal Wars.
**Just like Tribal Wars was developed by InnoGames, I would need a company as wel... |
What must I do to legally create a MMO browser game? |
## Agreement ##
You say:
>my landlord added a clause stating: "All moving must be done in rear of driveway or pay $250 (near basement door)"
Was this addition made at the time you signed the lease or subsequently? This matters because the terms of a contract cannot be changed unilaterally, they must be agreed.... |
This may or may not help you, I am aware that common law and Germanic law have very different origins, history and consequence; but, since I know nothing about German law I will give you the common law answer.
An essential part of a common law contract is the offer and acceptance. One party makes an offer and the ot... |
Suppose I did business with a large corporation, ABC, in the U.S. state in which I live and wish to sue it for whatever reason. I check the state's Secretary of State Web site and discover a dozen ABCs that look promising. Of course, I want to sue one that can be found liable and that has money to pay. How do I figure ... |
What company to sue? |
I'm not a law student, but I'm very interested in the topic and learning in general.
I got curious about contracts and signatures recently, so I wondered if there have been cases where contracts have been voided because of invalid signatures.
What constitutes a person's official signature, and what are the crit... |
How to prove the genuinity/nongenuinity of a signature? |
IANAL, but according to the [Google Maps API Terms of Service](https://developers.google.com/maps/terms?hl=en), it appears as though one is not allowed to store geocoding results in a database:
> 10.1.3 Restrictions against Copying or Data Export.
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> (a) No Unauthorized Copying, Modification, Creation of Derivat... |
Storing Google Maps Geocoding Data: Developer Site Tutorial Contradicts Terms of Service? |
IANAL, but according to the [Google Maps API Terms of Service](https://developers.google.com/maps/terms?hl=en), it appears as though one is not allowed to store geocoding results in a database:
> 10.1.3 Restrictions against Copying or Data Export.
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> (a) No Unauthorized Copying, Modification, Creation of Derivat... |
IANAL, but according to the [Google Maps API Terms of Service](https://developers.google.com/maps/terms?hl=en), it appears as though one is not allowed to store geocoding results in a database:
> 10.1.3 Restrictions against Copying or Data Export.
>
> (a) No Unauthorized Copying, Modification, Creation of Derivat... |
Let's say I wish to record my own version of the song *Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon*.
It is obvious that I'm required to pay royalties to the original owner of the song.
But while promoting my song, am I allowed to mention the fact that the original version was used in *Pulp Fiction*?
For example, can I write ... |
This year Jordan hastened the execution of terrorists in retaliation to daesh killing Jordanian hostage Moaz al-Kaseasbeh, having threatened to do so. That is, Jordan treated its own prisoners as hostages in some respects.
Apart from the application of the death penalty, and potential issues relating to the fairness... |
My friend asked me if he could record a cover of a song that I put on [SoundCloud][1] called [Gratitude][2] (License: All Rights Reserved).
1. What legal rights does my friend have? Does he need my permission?
2. What benefits, compensations, acknowledgements, etc. am I legally entitled to? Does my friend have to... |
Can anyone record a cover of a song I put on SoundCloud? |
>What legal rights does my friend have?
Whatever you choose to give him.
>Does he need my permission?
Yes
>What benefits, compensations, acknowledgements, etc. am I legally entitled to?
Whatever you negotiate and agree between you
>Does my friend have to pay me mechanical royalties if, e.g., he publishes his ve... |
I have made a funny site not really trying to be serious, which may involve hitting your head on a wall. I state this is a joke, and not meant to be taken seriously. But I'm just trying to cover my bases, and make sure I'm not open to a law suit.
It's not currently available to the public, but I would like it to be... |
**No**, if, as you say we put aside the human rights questions surrounding the death penalty itself and assuming that the prisoners had been legitimately charged, convicted and had exhausted their appeals process.
Once a person has been convicted, sentenced to death and has exhausted their appeals then the timing of... |
Say a company gives an assignment during the hiring process of a Software Engineer role and ask for the code to remain private.
Can they legally ask to keep that private? Who has right / ownership of this project? |
Can one publish an assignment completed during a hiring process? |
17 USC §106(5) says that the copyright holder of work holds the exclusive right to display the work publicly:
> (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual wo... |
How does the exclusive right to public display apply, e.g., to t-shirts? |
17 USC §106(5) says that the copyright holder of work holds the exclusive right to display the work publicly:
> (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual wo... |
In general, when I download the copyrighted file which I don't own it, it is illegal.
But does having [metadata (hash)][1] of the copyrighted material is legal?
Further more, what if I've program (like [Mathgen][2]) which generates random document and at some point it generated the copyrighted material.
Anoth... |
At what point computer generated file is illegal? |
At what point having computer generated file is illegal? |
In what circumstances can you go to jail for not paying taxes in the US/UK?
For instance the company doesn't pay taxes for very long time and government can't take any money from the company. Is it different whether it's sole-trader or sole-member LTD/LLC company? |
Can you go to jail for not paying taxes? |
It depends on what the explicit agreement was but generally speaking based on the facts you've given yes they can ask for it to remain private. In consideration for being a job candidate you agreed to do work and keep the work private. Their half of the contract was to evaluate you as a job candidate and your half was ... |
I am a physician and almost routinely am inundated with forms from lawyers to fill for my patients so they can get disability. They get paid for these cases but expect me to fill these forms at no cost.
Am I legally bound to fill these at no cost to my patients or their lawyers? |
Suppose I did business with a large corporation, ABC, in the U.S. state in which I live and wish to sue it for whatever reason. I check the state's Secretary of State Web site and discover a dozen ABCs that look promising. Of course, I want to sue one that can be found liable and that has money to pay. How do I figure ... |
Suppose I transacted with a large business (perhaps a chain store or a hospital) that has a publicly-facing name "ABC", in the U.S. state in which I live, and wish to sue it for whatever reason. How do I find out the correct entity to sue, that is, the legal person with which I transacted (absent any paperwork that ind... |
Suppose I transacted with a large business (perhaps a chain store or a hospital) that has a publicly-facing name "ABC", in the U.S. state in which I live, and wish to sue it for whatever reason.
How do I find out the correct entity to serve process on, that is, the legal person with which I transacted (absent any pa... |
How to find where to serve process on a company with a non-unique name? |
>Yet I publicly wear shirts with copyrighted designs all the time.
I'm unclear about this; do you mean T-shirts you have made yourself using copyrighted images or T-shirts you have bought?
If the former then it is a *prima facie* breach and you could be sued by the copyright holder. You would probably not be as ... |
If I'm looking to build an app or write a book and I wish to use statistics, am I allowed to basically use their numbers as long as I cite where it is coming from? If I do make a profit from it, do I owe any royalties to the original scientists/surveyers? Must I ask them for permission?
Currently, the poll data in q... |
US Can public survey or experimental data be used in profit content if cited? |
Suppose I transacted with a large business (perhaps a chain store or a hospital) that has a publicly-facing name "ABC", in the U.S. state in which I live, and wish to sue it for whatever reason.
How do I find out the correct entity named "ABC" out of a list of several potential matches that represents the legal pers... |
## Copyright ##
Prominent at the bottom of the page is:
> © RealClearPolitics 2015
This is nice because it tells you who you have to approach for a licence. If it wasn't there the **material would still be copyright** you just wouldn't know who owned the copyright.
## Questions ##
So:
>If I'm looking ... |
Upon an accidental argument/fight in which the husband is being told of assault for pretrial and if the wife which is the victim is wanting to talk to the husband (defendant) then the victim should be able to request a form to allow the wife to talk directly or indirectly with husband.
How does the wife go about... |
Let's say Person1 takes camera pictures of the following items and releases them as public domain:
- The external cover of her own USA passport
- The external cover of the USA passport of a willing Person2
- The external cover of the UK passport of a willing Person3
Is it legal?
Or is it somehow forbidden to... |
My understanding of the rationale behind [joint and several liability][1] is that the tenants would be most knowledgeable how to fairly distribute a cost amongst themselves. My question is what can be done to make sure that one person won't be held accountable for everything? For example I've heard stories where the ... |
If someone wrote an agreement down on paper and someone else signed it, does that make it legally binding? For example something silly like if Bob wrote on a piece of scrap paper that he will pay Alice $5 a day for her to walk his dog for the next 3 weeks, and if both Bob and Alice sign it, if Bob decides he no longer ... |
When is a contract legally binding? |
As a data scientist, based in the UK, I am thinking about downloading the recently leaked Ashley Madison data, producing some interesting statistics (none of them incriminating), and using them to write a data blog post or making a dashboard about them. I would make all text completely impartial towards Ashley Madison ... |
I am planning on buying a worn down property that has 4 big rooms to fix it up, and then rent it out 2 rooms room by room, while I would live with my family in the other two (at least for the starters and potentially rent everything out and move out somewhere else after 2 years.). Today I got copy of existing lease agr... |
I am planning on buying a worn down property that has 4 big rooms to fix it up, and then rent out 2 out of 4 rooms - room by room. I would live with my family in the other two (at least for the starters and potentially rent everything out and move out somewhere else in couple of years or so). Today I got copy of existi... |
These are some thoughts about the state of affairs in the US, I do not know how it works in the UK.
In the US it seems to be a legal gray area. Gray enough that I do not think any lawyer could say for certain that the use of the data is legal. The data is stolen. If possessing stolen property is illegal then possess... |
I understand that, in the United States, adverse possession is a legal (but very rare) way to take ownership of someone else's real property against their will.
What I don't understand is how this is materially different from theft, other than that it has to take place over a period of time determined by statute, an... |
What distinguishes adverse possession from theft? |
The technical difference is that theft is illegal, and adverse possession is not. I'm assuming you're talking about *why* there's a difference. Historically, there are two basic reasons for adverse possession.
First, land lasts for a *very* long time, and a sale is generally invalid unless the seller has valid title... |
I only recently started appreciating the differences between Civil Law and Common Law.
The following map on wikipedia shows the distribution of different legal systems around the world, which makes a distinction between Napoleonic law and Germanic law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Legal_systems... |
Out of curiousity, I googled my own e-mail to see what kind of results would show up. To my surprise, I found a website (blogger) that contained people's e-mails and leaked passwords for a service. For obvious reasons, I won't disclose the link or what service. The author of the blog also has a bunch of other shady shi... |
How do I convince google to take down this page which contains people's leaked e-mails and passwords? |
I only recently started appreciating the differences between Civil Law and Common Law.
The following map on wikipedia shows the distribution of different legal systems around the world, which makes a distinction between Napoleonic law and Germanic law:
[![Map of the Legal systems of the world (en).png][1]][2]... |
Out of curiousity, I googled my own e-mail to see what kind of results would show up. To my surprise, I found a website (blogger) that contained people's e-mails and leaked passwords for a service. For obvious reasons, I won't disclose the link or what service. The author of the blog also has a bunch of other shady shi... |
Both [Napoleonic][1] and [Germanic][2] law are subdivisions of [Civil Law][3] and both are inheritors of late empire [Roman Law][4] plus ecclesiastical law and traditional law.
The main differences between them are their route from the Roman Empire to the modern world. Napoleonic law was codified in 1804 under Napol... |
I was reading about the two types on insanity pleas, known as `NGBI` and `GBMI`.
For example, a good excerpt [is here on Google Books.][1]
However, something very obvious is bothering me:
How can you have a legal system where on one hand we consider insane people not guilty of their crimes and on the other say... |
How can Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty but Insane exist in the same legal system? |
Consider for example the starship enterprise (registry NCC1701) from the star trek tv series. If someone takes a picture of the ship from the tv show and sticks it on a poster, it is clearly a derivative work. But what if they only show part of the ship? What if they only show a small enough part that it is not recogni... |
How much of a work needs to be used for it to be derivative? |
I have recently asked [following question][1] around one of clauses I have in leasehold contract in property I am thinking of buying. It states that I am not allowed to sublet parts of building I can only sublet it as a whole (can't rent it out room by room). Which ruins my plans as I intended to live in couple of room... |
Can leasehold contracts be amended, and is this a common practice in UK? |
I have recently asked [following question][1] around leasehold contract in property I am in the process of buying. It states that I am not allowed to sublet parts of building I can only sublet it as a whole (can't rent it out room by room). Which ruins my plans as I intended to live in couple of rooms and rent out the ... |
At work can a manger tell an employee that they must come in to work after requesting a sick day? What if the reason is something like they need to go to the dentist to get their annual teeth cleaning? Does it matter if the employee is not entitled to any sick days? |
Can a manager decline a request for a sick day? |
For example, on OpenSubtitles, a website which offers 3.5mln subtitles we can read [Disclaimer][1]:
> These files are NOT illegal warez downloads, we only offer files that we believe we are free to redistribute.
Therefore when does creating/making open subtitles for commercial movies/TV and publishing it become i... |
When is making a subtitle file for a commercial movie legal? |
We're living in [freedom of speech][1] community.
However when writing controversial books, are there any topics which are not allowed to write about in First World countries (for educational purposes)? How do you know when you cross the line?
One example could be [Uncle Fester books][2] or WikiLeaks which are the ... |
What topics are not allowed when publishing open access controversial books? |
I just heard of this the other day, a patent from 2004,
covering creating legal contracts using templates. It's being pushed again:
http://www.google.ch/patents/US20060287966
Surely legal firms have been doing this before 2004?
Bit worried that what we currently do (making legal documents from templates) w... |
Tell the employee they must come to work? Or else... what? If they don't show up they get a demerit and after 1,000,000 demerits they get a verbal warning? What are the consequences in this hypothetical?
Of course a contract may dictate a different rule but in an at-will-employment state a manager can certainly tell a... |
Are vows not to remove rights legally binding? |
In [this answer](http://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/1673) on another SE, it is suggested that the anonymous authors of a piece of software might use a "[poor man's copyright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_man%27s_copyright)" technique to establish that they possessed the work before it was published, in case th... |
How does "poor man's copyright" work? |
When a web-application is finished we minify our source and combine all different CSS and JS files into one, to speed up the performance (pageload).
As I thought about it, I recognize that some tools delete all comments (from source) so that you've to add the copyright information on the correct place afterwards.
... |
Even if a government claims to respect "[freedom of speech][1]," are there any topics that can be prohibited from publication?
Examples might be [Uncle Fester books][2] or WikiLeaks.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Fester_(author) |
Are any subjects or contents off-limits for publication in "free-speech" countries? |
I was reading about how [Michael Jackson's father][1] used to beet him when he messed up when practising a performance. My question is when did beating your child become illegal? Or was it always and its just now days its implemented stronger? Is spanking a child technically legal?
A man I knew, who fought in world ... |
When did beating your child as a form of discipline become illegal in North America? |
I was reading about how [Michael Jackson's father][1] used to beet him when he messed up when practising a performance. When did beating your child become illegal? Or was it always and now it is just more strictly enforced? Is spanking a child technically legal?
A man I knew, who fought in world war 2, once boasted ... |
Does a landlord have to tell you the reason for entering your apartment? |
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