Questions tagged [legal]
Questions about the legal aspects of Stack Exchange sites, such as the terms of service, using content and/or code-snippets, attribution, copyrights, patents, using trademarks, etc. General legal questions are OFF-TOPIC but may be asked on Law Stack Exchange.
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The Public Network Terms of Service navigation should include all subsections
In order to increase transparency and better comply with the various (inter-)national privacy/transparency laws, I recommend expanding the navigation section of the Public Network Terms of Service. ...
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Stack Exchange should allow existing users to opt out of arbitration
Please allow users to opt out of arbitration, even if it's more than the 30 days since they signed the agreement.
Currently the terms of service read:
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT BY USING THE PUBLIC NETWORK,...
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Did Stack Exchange and Facebook discuss any ownership rights for the site meta.stackexchange.com and meta.com? [closed]
I am curious what the legal ownership is around websites such as meta.stackexchange.com and meta.com considering they are both titled the same. I understand the legal definition of a word is not ...
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My consent to the data-dump is not stored server side
When you ask me to consent to certain conditions like
I understand that this file is being provided to me for my own use and for projects that do not include training a large language model (LLM), ...
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We've made changes to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy - July 2024
We’ve just made two adjustments to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy:
For the Terms of Service, we moved Copyright and DMCA information to a dedicated page.
For the Privacy Policy, we updated ...
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Please add some explanation for the available options on the Data Request page
This is a follow up to my two previous questions, "In the data request page, what does the "Object to Processing" request type do?" and In the data request page, what does the &...
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Preparing for the company to breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA license [closed]
I am expecting that at some point in the future and possibly quite soon, the company will breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA licence that I grant to them as a content creator.
As is my right, when this ...
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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?
While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page.
In its first paragraph the policy reads:
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Do I own and retain all rights (copyright) to all the content posted on my profile page? [duplicate]
Does the 'public Network' include content on the profile page such as the profile picture and display name?
Does the answer to Do I have to give attribution to SO when using my own content elsewhere? ...
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What’s with the new cookie banner with "legitimate interests" only on certain SE sites?
Stack Overflow has a new cookie banner/setting page which includes somewhat hidden "legitimate interests". Which also have to be objected to individually, not by using the "necessary ...
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Does Stack Overflow require that OverflowAI partners refrain from using Stack Exchange contributions in contravention of the license?
This is a subset of What, exactly, is Stack Overflow's agreement with OpenAI?, but it seems that we are playing Twenty Questions this month.
Representatives of the company (e.g. the Chief Product ...
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In the data request page, what does the "Object to Processing" request type do?
Following my earlier, still unanswered question "In the data request page, what does the "Do not sell my information" request type do?" I noticed that the aforementioned page ...
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What, exactly, is Stack Overflow's agreement with OpenAI?
It's difficult to know what, exactly, the accord between Stack Overflow and OpenAI is. Per the meta announcement:
anything specific promised about how this will work here could change
but that's ...
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How do I remove my contributions from Stack Exchange, in the event of a license violation?
Stack Exchange is now partnering with OpenAI. While the company has received a commitment from OpenAI that attribution will be maintained, and the company has not relicensed our contributions (as of ...
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What aspects of Stack Exchange are copyrighted in the case of a fork?
Here's a hypothetical scenario.
Say that the Stack Exchange management does something that the community thinks is so counter to their core values, that a large majority decides to set up a new ...
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