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by rprasad 14y ago
That's not how fair use works. Simply making a derivative work is not enough to take advantage of fair use. The derivative work must fall into certain categories of use. A lot of fanfic and sprite comics would not fit into fair use, thou
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by rprasad 14y ago
It may be fair use, if you do not distribute the game. Once you distribute it, all bets are off, and fair use would almost certainly not apply. Many media companies have staff lawyers to police their IP, so it does not usually cost them
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by rprasad 14y ago
Of all the comments I made today, this was the one I least expected to be downvoted...
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by rprasad 14y ago
Hopefully none, since Airbnb reports the income it pays out on Form 1099.
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by rprasad 14y ago
He may have imposed more than $20,000 in potential liability on the landlord (i.e., if something went wrong). Standard insurance does not usually extend to the hotel-style leasing that AirBnB offers, so the landlord (and the tentant) would
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by rprasad 14y ago
The Chinese suppliers who provided all that terrific melanine-spiked baby powder said the same thing! Why let such silly things as laws stand in the way of profit? Who cares if someone else gets hurt...
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by rprasad 14y ago
Possibly, depending on the jurisdiction. Most VRBO's provide this service to the home owners. Indeed, it seems that one of AirBNB's primary cost advantages over other VRBO's is that they don't cover tax withholding. This may not matter mu
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by rprasad 14y ago
"Hey look! My landlord just evicted me for leasing out my spare room in violation of my lease!" There is nothing stopping you from putting an ad on Craiglist. However, if you violate the terms of your lease, you can get evicted. Moreover,
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by rprasad 14y ago
Ironically, it would have been acceptable if she had used a normal VRBO service (like HomeAway), as those services usually take care of any licensing and taxes associated with renting out one's home.
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by rprasad 14y ago
It's really not about preventing competition. The primary barrier to entry for restaurants and food vendors is, and always has been, access to the capital necessary to get it off the ground. It turns out that buying physical goods and equ
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by rprasad 14y ago
* Can you stop a guy from making experimental taco flavored cereal at home then delivering it to people who ordered it online?* Yes, quite easily. For the guy selling tacos, possibly prison, but more likely fines. And since we're likely d
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by rprasad 14y ago
1 apple? No. 100 apples? Maybe. 1000 apples? Yes. You don't even need these "boxes" because you can apply common sense: you are selling a lot of apples. This makes you a "vendor." Apples are food, hence you are a "food vendor." At that p
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by rprasad 14y ago
Interestingly enough, I know a few people who got hacked, and all of them use the authenticator...On the other hand, none of the people I know who don't use an authenticator have (yet?) been hacked in D3.
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by rprasad 14y ago
I think you're expecting to much for twentiy five dollars.
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by rprasad 14y ago
My friend, let me introduce you to the wonders of modern science. Fresh fruits and vegetables are now heavily exposed to pesticides and other substances that retard decay (even organic foods, though the exposure is lessened). Cheeses now i
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by rprasad 14y ago
That's not how jury selection actually works in this country. Personal experience in a relevant field is generally not a justification for removing a juror for cause. A product preference is not a justification for removing a juror for c
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by rprasad 14y ago
While we may think of 5 miles as a quick trip, back then a 5 mile trip to the local market would have taken most of a day (and the trip itself could be a multi-day event, which is why we vote on Tuesdays). This is on top of any time the foo
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by rprasad 14y ago
Small businesses drive employ almost half of all employees (and more than half during boom cycles). The technology sector has an overinflated sense of the value it provides to the economy in terms of jobs created or productivity growth. No
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by rprasad 14y ago
Before the globalization of the food supply, climate change was the cause of death for many of the great ancient and not-so-ancient civilizations. Getting fresh food from any part of the world is (comparatively) trivial nowadays, but even
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by rprasad 14y ago
That is not the grounds on which the patent attorney was excused -- there is no justification for excusing someone whose personal experience bears upon the subjects brought up at trial. (In other words, you cannot excuse such a juror "for c
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by rprasad 14y ago
That's not true at all . Defense attorneys (especially criminal defense attorneys) want jurors who are more knowledgeable because they are more willing to actually think about what they're being told rather than just defer to whichever ex
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by rprasad 14y ago
That's not how it works. The second company would pay Kleenex for a license to use the trademark. This does not dilute the trademark, in fact, it actually strengthens it. The third company, which does not take out a license, would be subj
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by rprasad 14y ago
You're talking about a "license" for which the licensee is paying the trademark holder a royalty for the right to use the trademark. It's quite common, especially in the startup world.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Your experience is still relevant -- disclaimers don't work in every context. The danger is more relevant for a practitioner than a non-practitioner, since courts will interpret disclaiming language in favor of the "client". However, based
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by rprasad 14y ago
Same in Ohio and Cali; that is why the disclaimer must explicitly state that legal advice is not being provided. The key is that it must be reasonable for the recipient to believe that they are receiving legal advice. If they are explicitl
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by rprasad 14y ago
Yes, in their own defense, but not in the defense of others unless they are licensed to practice. I have heard of a handful of cases (related to immigration law) where persons who offered legal advice were held accountable for providing b
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by rprasad 14y ago
You did give legal advice, dude. Here's some legal advice for you to protect yourself in the future, a disclaimer you can place before you do something similar in the future: "The following [X] is/are not legal advice. It/They is/are inten
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by rprasad 14y ago
Nirvana, the issue is that you are providing a specific application of laws and rules to the OP's facts and suggesting a specific course of legal action. That is, by definition, the practice of law in every state in America. (Though per
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by rprasad 14y ago
Disclaimers have legal effect. If you include a disclaimer that you are not providing legal advice, and that your discussion is limited solely to specific issues (and may not include all issues raised by the fact pattern at hand), you will
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by rprasad 14y ago
Hell no. Zuckerberg has several billion dollars in the bank. He could buy several countries. He doesn't need my money, so he's got to have an ulterior motive if he's seeking outside funding.

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