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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Arguably the information is not public until it is available to more than just twitter employees. And trading on non public info can be securities fraud.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Any host gets safe harbor as long as they accept DMCA takedown notices and respond to them within a reasonable amount of time. You don't need a lawyer to comply with this law in general, but if you are in the business of hosting legall
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
This seems like a really cheap way to get the desired outcome, more people exercising
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
I understood the Perfect 10 case to be decided not on the merits and on a pretrial motion, and that the standard for fair use is not the same. Almost certainly the plaintiff will make a prima facie case, and an affirmative defense is needed
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
It sounds like you are talking about copyright in the context of fair use. Fair use matters for using work without permission from the rights holder. Editorial vs commercial for the purposes of a license has some difference in the legal sta
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Flat depends on your perspective. The death rate per capita is higher than anywhere in Asia, despite many of those countries being denser
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Commercial use in the context of copyright is not about money at all, but if the images are used to advertise a product or service. A newspaper could use a non commercial licensed photo to provide context to an article, even though the news
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Charging money for something is not a factor in whether something is a commercial use. It is only commercial use if the images are used for advertising purposes. None of your examples are murky, and none of them are commercial use.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
>First, parody is part of Fair Use, which means that it's an "affirmative defense": in a lawsuit, the burden is on the defendant to bring it up and prove it. That's in contrast to ordinary defenses or arguments around
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Copyright only protects the written implementation, not ideas or likenesses. The amount of protection a likeness gets varies a lot more between states, it is a different set of laws, and outside of advertisements or defamation it often is n
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Whether or not something is a derivative, or it is a new transformative work is is legally transformative in a lot more cases than you would expect. Cariou v. Prince page 4 and 5 is the most famous example, and even this minimal change is l
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
No. The video in question was not. And more generally just because an ad plays along side a video does not mean the video itself is a commercial work, in the same way a newspaper or magazine can have ads alongside editorial content.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
It looks like just residential. Here is a link to the order. http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgenda... But commercial evictions are still done judicially in CA unlike some other places,
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Independent contractor, self employed, and gig workers can get unemployment now because of the stimulus bill even though they aren't normally be eligible. If you are making substantially less than before you can get partial unemploymen
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
CA unemployment is near $1000 a week with the federal stimulus.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Alameda county flat out does not allow evictions for non payment of rent for covid-19 related reasons. The landlords can get back rent on a 12 month payment plan, and they can pursue small claims court if this is not paid.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
The US is approaching 20% unemployment. The stock market dropped ~32% from the peak, and is down about 15% from the former peak presently. But the richest person in the world has 50% more money than they did 6 months ago.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Microsoft and other large companies are made up of many smaller groups, and to make this work there are a lot of extra rules. For the most part those rules serve a purpose and the benefit outweighs the cost. Sometimes these rules create ext
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
You want to check through different sources, direct to consumer, through a mortgage broker, and through a bank you have an existing relationship with. It is worth shopping around with the direct to consumer lending, there might be a $10k di
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
The median home price in the bay area is under $1m. There is also some stickiness right around this price point, and most buyers are not getting jumbo mortgages in the bay area.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
This should be easy to find out. Hospitals are required to publish chargemasters because of the ACA, basically the list price for their services.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Many constitutional rights have qualifications, and "the law" is both statutory and based on case law. You don't have a constitutional right to a trial by a jury of your peers for non-serious crimes. A serious offense is gene
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
There are a lot of people who have pre existing conditions and have no idea, even in the military. There was a marine recruit who died during basic training because of a heart defect, it wasn't an issue his whole life and it didn'
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
The stock market dropped nearly 35% from it's all time high. So it did tank. But also the value of stocks is largely speculative. And they are priced compared to the next best alternative. The bond market is not great now, and investin
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
France does not have common law with the notion of case law setting a precedent, they have civil law.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
A huge part of our military spending is to ensure that we have the requisite domestic production to fight a war, without spending years retooling the economy. Additionally domestic manufacturing output is at an all time high for a huge numb
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
You can have a free lunch. Economics is not a zero sum game. If more people are willing to purchase your goods because of the fraud protection, ease of use, or rewards, it is better than only accepting cash for business, and better for con
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
It is much more likely these would continue to operate as short term rentals, but with a new owner. And in a lot of cases these investors can ride out a couple months of no bookings. The CARES act covers mortgages for many investors of resi
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
This certainly varies by country. In the US and many other countries travel insurance typically excludes pandemics.
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by gnopgnip 7y ago
Doesn't the D&O insurance cover this?

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