Questions about copyright as it relates to patents. Note that questions about copyright in itself are off-topic on this site.
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Can I use copy protected images on my facebook page? [closed]
Am making a page about Steve Jobs and am gonna need a lot of pics. Is it allowed to use pics i find on google coz a lot of them are copyright protected.
And is it ethical to do so?
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How to agree on app copyright with the partner? [closed]
The partner, a science institution has hired me to make an app for them, making their work easier to parse and mine raw data they collect. They know how data should be modelled but they provided no ...
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Can I use these images for a college publication? [duplicate]
I am a photo editor for a campus magazine. I am wondering about the use of publishing some of the images on 2008/0210728. It's about a solar backpack patent. Is this legal for a university to use? Are ...
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Making a game with patent art graphics
I'm considering making a game that uses patent illustrations (from Context-Free Patent Art) as graphics. I've read the answers to Are text and images in the patent copyrighted?, which suggests that if ...
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Registering Patent, Can a way of doing things be registered as patent or copyrighted?
I'm working on a method of user authentication. I Googled the whole web, different places like Wikipedia, and some science journals and didn't find the strategy I'm using. Can my strategy be ...
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warning before suing for patent infringment
I want to know that
if I make some software and start selling it.Later on someone finds out that the main Idea in my software is same as theirs and they have patent for it.
Now do they have to ...
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Does “Vessel Hull Design Protection Act” protects any kind of object of design?
I would like to know if any kind of object of design can be protected by the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, or if it is just to vessel hull objects.
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Can software or a block of code under the GPL or a similar license be patented?
Regarding software, can an application or block of code licensed under the GPL (pre version 3), or a similar license requiring the source to be made available under the terms of the license after ...
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Are text and images in the patent copyrighted?
Sometimes, during a patent research, I found patents which comprise one or more similar images and/or text paragraphs. Are text and images in the patent copyrighted? Does any 3rd party, other than ...
