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General legallity of selling advanced malicious software systems [duplicate]
Generally, within the United States, would it be legal to:
Develop an advanced network exploitation system that has capabilities like The NSO Group Pegesus Spyware.
Market that software to any US ...
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Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
For some context, I live the US, in an at-will state, and there's no employment contract involved.
When I was younger, I worked at a warehouse doing inventory-related activities as an hourly employee ...
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Does re-implementing a software API violate copyright?
Company A sells a software services. To promote adoption, it publicly documents the programmable interface.
Company B develops a competing software servic implementing the same interface (but blackbox ...
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Is making a copycat proprietary software against the law?
Suppose I build and sell closed-source and proprietary software that exactly looks like Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, both in appearance and functionality, but uses a different source code, name, and ...
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Does the end user need a license for embedded software? Or just the manufacturer?
According to this answer, legal responsibility for operations performed via computer isn't as simple as always attaching to the owner of the computer or to the person who hit the button. It attaches ...
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If I pay for a software, do I have the rights to access its source code?
In other words, can I reverse engineer the software that I paid for? I feel like since I spent money, I should be able to know what the software is actually doing and does it have any hidden malware ...
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If a person is working for two companies as a regular employee who owns the copyright to software created by that employee?
The general rule is that if you are an employee software you create in the course of your employment belongs to your employer.
In the United States an employee can work for more than one company ...
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When will the baseline patents for encoding/decoding the AAC format expire?
The MP4 container is the most ubiquitous video format in the world. It is commonly used with the H.264 video codec, of which there has been a lot written about when the patents for this codec will ...
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Can ex-employer ask/require in a severance agreement that if I plan to disclose information about the severance agreement, I must tell them first?
Can a severance agreement ask/force an employee to inform the ex-employer if they plan to disclose the severance agreement?
My understanding is that the National Labor Relations Act allows me to share ...
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Is it common for software licenses to, as written, technically prohibit normal and expected use of the software?
In Is distributing software that makes modifications to video games legal? an example snippet of a video game license is given, which reads:
You may not copy the Software (except as specifically ...
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Is it against the DMCA to use the recent implementation of the Windows XP's product activation algorithm if one has an XP licence?
The Windows XP's product activation encryption algorithm has recently been "cracked", and a software implementation that emulates the telephone activation question / response procedure is ...
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Are licenses on "source available" products binding?
There are a number of companies which make their source code available in various public forums like Github or Gitlab. These products are not open source, but the source is available for public ...
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Are there any cases that establish a precedent regarding software patching?
My question concerns the legality of "software patching", specifically making changes to the compiled code of an existing third-party software application in order to alter its behavior. My ...
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Can a software include a list of deities/gods?
Consider a software that allows users to create profiles that identify the user. If this software includes and allows users to choose what god/deity they believe in (or their favorite god/deity), is ...
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Does anti-discrimination law apply to software licenses?
Related: Can a software license validly restrict place of use, or impose restrictions on the type or purpose of use
As per the above thread, it seems like it is perfectly legal in the USA to attach ...
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