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I could not find the answer anywhere on the net, and I'm not sure if stack overflow is the right place for my question. (If not, I do apologize)
Here goes: is it illegal to post youtube videos on my website? I mean embedding it, so that other people can have direct access to the video on youtube, but of course from my website?
EDIT: I disagree with anyone stating that this isn't a coding question. Clearly, I will be programming something which will link up another website. So, despite the legal nature of the question, this question by NO means warrants -2 on the votes, as the legal nature is part of programming. For example, if you rip off something which clearly states that you need to pay a certain amount of money (fonts for example), then as a programmer you still need to pay for the font for fear of being sued. So, if I didn't know the answer to a legal question pertaining to coding, because the PROCESS involves coding, then the way to know is to ask people who deal with day to day situations similar to mine.
No its not illegal to share the YouTube videos. But there some restriction on sharing unlisted videos. Refer this link https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/157177?hl=en
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I am working with a company that is trying to build their online authority and they want to avoid any penalties from Google and other major search engines.
The site is a social network (adult related) and users can create public profile, post links, images, etc. It is an adult social network for people that want to make money talking on the phone.
So the question is, is it a good idea to nofollow all external links? Because it is hard to gauge the quality of sites that we may be linking out to and I don't want to have any issues with this..
Thanks!
This article on Google suggests you should nofollow untrusted user links.
If you can't or don't want to vouch for the content of pages you link
to from your site — for example, untrusted user comments or guestbook
entries — you should nofollow those links. This can discourage
spammers from targeting your site, and will help keep your site from
inadvertently passing PageRank to bad neighborhoods on the web.
I'd probably keep your own links as follow, and make some effort to seek out and remove dodgy links, though - nofollow does not protect your users.
The safe route would be, yes, to add nofollow to all of your outgoing links if you're going to allow users to be able to insert any link they wish.
A lot of large social networks and forums do this and have no issues.
I hope this helps some.
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How do the app Cal loads images from Tumblr?
I've seen that if you click on this photo source (it's a link), you go to something like this.
From what I understand, they are fetching all images from this user's posts. They seem to just reblog other posts they found with images.
Is it even legal?
How are they doing such thing?
They are probably using the Tumblr API
They also provide an Objective-C SDK ready for you to use in your projects here.
Regarding their policy, check this.
When you upload your creations to Tumblr, you grant us a license to
make that content available in the ways you'd expect from using our
services (for example, via your blog, RSS, the Tumblr Dashboard,
etc.). We never want to do anything with your content that surprises
you.
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I do not mean English. Just communication. I have this problem in my team that we are often discussing complicated topics, be it face to face, in emails, during meetings or in our issue tracker, and people often find it difficult to stay focused and understand each other.
What are the best resources (books, presentations) on that topic? Is there any way one can learn this quickly?
For your personal growth:
-take the intiative to be in situations that require this. Join the army! :D But on a more practical note: join a theatre group, start writing/casting a blog, TA some students (officially or not). Simply practicing this often (and getting the immediate feedback through the reaction of other people), you'll start noticing what is more effective and get in the habit of doing it.
-I recommend the book "On writing well.", William Zinnser. Well written and concise, and short enough that you have the time for it, and most concepts can be applied to communication in general, not just writing.
Note that even though it is quite easy to understand the concepts, this is very much a matter of charachter, so it'll take a while for your effort to become habit. Worth it though.
Are you also looking for ideas for your current situation, or just resources?
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On the one hand there is http://ckfinder.com/
CKFinder or the people behind it have always been very vague about their licenses when we asked information about them, so we aren't really fond of using their commercially licensed products.
So I've looked for an alternative and found http://kcfinder.sunhater.com which comes with an LGPL license, perfect for use in a commercial application that just wants to use the file browser and not modify it.
Now they both look very similar and my question is: is KCfinder a legal alternative to CKfinder? Or is it an exact and modified copy?
Does anyone know this or can find this out?
Yes. Just because KCFinder has a similar name and interface doesn't mean that it violates the license of CKFinder. To do that, it would have to reuse the CKFinder code, and the author says he developed KCFinder "because I was unable to find a usable free alternative of the commercial CKFinder." There's no reason to assume that he copied any code. If he had, the author of CKFinder would have undoubtedly found out, and it would no longer be available.
Its being featured on the SourceForge Blog should erase any doubt. blog
A good alternative is elFinder (http://elfinder.org/).
Licensed under a 3 clauses BSD license.
At least the name is clearly a low level marketing attempt to confuse users and disturb CKFinder. There is a good chance that this is a trade mark violation.
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The web site in question is www.eventid.net; my web based app will redirect the user to the site and send an event id in the url. The redirect will be: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1003&source=Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC
Do you think I can do this?
I have contacted the site owners with no reply.
It's a public website, of course you can.
It'd be a different matter if you were screen-scraping their results for your own application, but from your description that's not the case.
If you were operating a web site in Germany, and your site had a deep link to a Stackoverflow article, and that article contained copyrighted code from a German company (posted by an employee, for instance), that company could easily get you in trouble at any German court.
US courts have been much more lenient, so if you are doing business solely in the US, I would not worry too much, as long as you don't violate the Terms of Use here.
So, I think the answer "Of course, it is a public site" does not do justice to the potentially complicated legal issues that can arise when you take the question into an international context.
Some examples (only the big ones make it into English language news):
http://www.linksandlaw.com/courtdecisions-germany.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/11/heise_not_allowed_to_mention_slysoft/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10064740-93.html
Read through their Terms of Use carefully. Make sure you avoid violating their trademark. If it's not clear that you are redirecting to an external site, you may want to make it clear so your users aren't confused.