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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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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Can the "Right to be forgotten" and a LLM "non-negotiable attribution" be reconciled? Do they need to?
I was trying to make sense of the impact of the GDPR "Right to be forgotten" rules in accordance to the growing number of LLM partnership the network is announcing lately.
The data subject ...
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In the data request page, what does the "Do not sell my information" request type do?
The recent "Upcoming privacy updates: removal of the Activity data section and Google conversion pixel deprecation" communication made me realize that the Data Request submit page includes &...
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Generalize the DMCA Takedown Help Center page
All SE sites have a /help/dmca-takedown page. Right now, it's very specific in both the title and the content regarding DMCA takedown requests. However, it would be helpful if it was generalized to ...
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Does the network minimum age requirement also include users without an account?
Context: why I am asking this
Recently the network Acceptable Usage Policy was changed. As a result of those changes now it is technically possible to include what the policy defines as "Sexually ...
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Updates to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) – January 2024
As part of our ongoing efforts to review and update policies, we’ve updated our Acceptable Use Policy. These changes come after a review period in which we made adjustments as a result of moderator ...
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Update to our Advertising Guidelines
Today, we have updated our Advertising Guidelines as follows:
“Retargeting pixels are not allowed on any campaign. allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.”
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