Questions tagged [international]
For questions about the interaction of two or more sovereign states, including agreements and laws between them, and disputes of jurisdiction for civil or criminal matters.
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When unmanned objects, such as satellites, are used for military purposes, do they become valid military targets according to international law?
In the current conflict in Ukraine there has been some speculation that Russia may try to knock out or disable satellites used in support of the Ukrainian army.
Notably, large civilian constellations ...
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Are commercially published British fashion plates from early 1800s in Britain in public domain in USA?
I'm designing a deck of card that will incorporate many British fashion plates from roughly 1790 to 1825. The magazines in which they were published have gone out of business long ago.
I am working ...
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How can Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian, be sued for defamation by Hans Niemann in Missouri?
Hans Niemann is suing multiple people for defamation (full complaint):
Among the defendants, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is listed. I don't get how this is possible: they're two separate countries with ...
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Who owns the ancient alien bases hidden underneath Antarctica?
I know most of you don't believe in "aliens," but my friend John MacQuoid believes there are underground ancient alien bases in Antarctica.
Yeah, I know this sounds ludicrous, but according ...
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Is adjusting the shipping rates after purchase allowed?
So, I (USA) recently made an order at an online store (Japan). I paid with debit. My order was taking a while to ship but I thought nothing of it because I'm patient and shopping online is just like ...
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Why are Russian combatants in Ukraine considered soldiers rather than terrorists?
The question bothers me since February 2022. Why (legally) are Russian combatants in Ukraine considered soldiers (thus POWs when captured) rather than terrorists?
There is no formal declaration of ...
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International sexting and suicide threaths
Im here asking for someone very dear to me whose been struggling with something similar. So let's take this as a hypothethical question.
Let's assume a girl (18 from Slovakia) and a boy (17 from ...
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Is there any framework for prosecuting environmental crimes as war crimes?
It is in the news that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines is an environmental catastrophe. There are calls for this to be treated as a war crime:
Methane leaking from yet-to-be explained ...
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Do I need to present a GDPR banner to IP addresses outside of GDPR regions?
The context of my question comes from this comment:
The problem with solving GDPR compliance with country codes is, it is not in general sufficient to determine if a user is covered by the GDPR. The ...
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Are there any international laws governing the change of country of a region?
Russia last week held a referendum on whether the occupied regions of Ukraine would want to join Russia. Many states and international institutions have already made clear that they will not accept ...
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Contracting with a prototype maker in China from the USA [closed]
I have a product that I want to build a prototype for.
How do I protect myself if I am contracting a company in China to develop the product? I am in the US. How do I prevent them from stealing my ...
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How can I travel with a cancelled passport?
Say one day my passport is cancelled because I wrote "president s***s" on my Twitter a few years ago. I have only 1 citizenship.
This would probably happen when I'm outside the country (A). ...
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Is there any safe Threshold of originality internationally for copyright?
I'm maintaining a web service where we ask everybody to accept the EULA (which includes required license to share the user submitted content within the site) before we accept any permanently stored ...
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Is overseas cybercrime is rarely prosecuted
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Let take a cybercrime is happend with minor overseas. But it is too lightly.consider it is chatting between two people-adult and minor and no photos are sent. Does it prosecutes ...
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Is using the word Roleplay with overseas minor can land me in jail
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I am using an adult app (18+) for roleplaying. A girl from South Africa joined. She told her age is 14. I asked "wanna do roleplay?" She also kept her category in ...
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Vietnamese were chosen as applicable law, should the CISG govern contract ? May the parties choose laws of Indonesia to be applicable of the contract?
The contract is signed between the company, which is located in Vietnam, and company in France / Germany / Australia / Korea.
From the Contracting States of CISG between Vietnam and U.S. activated, ...
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A tourist can request political asylum?
Some countries like Uruguay accept political asylum request ONLY if the person enters the country illegally, for those with tourist visa they have a way more complex mechanism. But generally speaking, ...
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What countries enforce patent licensing deals with royalties beyond expiration of the patent?
I heard that in the USA, licensing deals that involve royalties beyond 20 years is no enforceable.
Is this common? Are there countries that allow royalties in perpetuity or beyond expiration at least?
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What are the detention without charge time limits?
In researching detention without charge, I find this accusation asserted at many countries as if each example is uniquely bad. However, surprisingly I can find no research paper or even informed ...
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What happens if a Constitutional amendment passed after ratification of a treaty contradicts that treaty?
Suppose a Constitutional amendment was passed establishing an absolute right to circumvent DRM. This is in direct contradiction to the WIPO copyright treaty, which requires signatory countries (...
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What is a lawyer allowed to do?
There was a report about a crypto currency company sending 10 million Australian dollars to a customer by mistake (they entered the account number instead of the amount for a $100 refund) and finding ...
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Transcription law
(I'd be interested in UK, US, or any internet/international biased opinions here; as well as anything I could further ready up on!)
Let's assume a physical Text exists.
Is it legal for person A to ...
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Why do the manufacturers using an operating system have to pay patent royalties based on the operating system?
https://rcpmag.com/articles/2014/08/04/microsoft-sues-samsung.aspx
In 2011, Samsung signed a contract agreeing to pay Microsoft royalties
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Does GDPR apply to a non-EU company communicating with me?
Someone used my e-mail address to create an account at one on-line service in a country that is not in EU. I told the company about that and they responded with that they have undone that.
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How does multinational criminal copyright infringement get settled?
Let's say,
The plaintiff, lives in the UK and published a literary work (e.g. A Book)
The defendant, a corporation headquartered in the US, wilfully infringing plaintiff's copyright worldwide.
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Telling to a different person of a very bad experience of someone
A graduate student in the UK told me about a really grave experience that they had in a different country. This experience has a long-lasting effect on their life and studies. However, I am not 100% ...
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If I sell an item to someone in another country, whose laws apply?
If I sell a large item (example car/caravan/boat) from the UK in a private deal to a person in a country in the EU, which countries laws (apply in the event of a dispute)?
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Can the Canadian administration ("government") enter into international agreements, treaties etc. binding Canada without legislative ratification?
According to Wikipedia citing a CBC coverage Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly told to reporters that "[u]nder the Canadian system the government, the executive branch, has ...
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Confusion about USA export regulations regarding electronics
I am an electronic hobbyist based in Canada. Recently I bought different Microcontroller development boards from Mouser.ca (a huge online electronics distributor based in Mansfield, Texas). This is ...
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Can an employer REQUIRE a foreign W-8 sub-contractor to have a US/stateside bank account for the employer to submit payment for services?
As an employer receiving services from a foreign individual (W-8BEN completed), can the employer require the W-8 employee to have a US bank account to send their contracted payroll?
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Working part of the year from Spain for a UK company, what are the implications?
I am an EU national based in the UK working for a British company. I would like to live and work remotely from Spain between 3 to 6 months per year. My current company told me they would not ...
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Tax Responsibility - American Remote Work in Toronto
I'm an American software developer working for an American financial services company that only services American citizens and permanent residents. I am a remote worker who lives and works in Michigan....
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Governing law clauses with parties in different countries
If I am in the United States, and I agree to a contract stating that both parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of a court in a foreign country, can I be compelled to appear in that ...
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Would Ukraine humanitarian scammers be commiting war crimes?
A cambridge article has an abstract reading as
Impeding humanitarian access and the starving of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law in times of both international and non-...
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Is it legal to copy the KJV?
If I understand correctly, the King James Version of the Bible is copyrighted in the UK but nowhere else. I live in the US. If I upload a copy of it to my Web site (which is hosted in the US), is that ...
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Can the US break-up a foreign company (specifically Bayer) after it has merged with an American one due to an increase in market power?
In 2018 Bayer and Monsanto had a huge merger. In the future it is possible that it will be in the US's interest to reverse their decision due to the sudden shift in market pressure. That said Bayer is ...
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Permission to work as freelancer
Is it permitted to work as a freelancer on upwork or another freelancer website if you live on Germany or not ?
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Uber files: Can Uber offload their past responibilities by claiming they are a new company?
The recently released Uber files report how the company built a network of lobbyists in close contact with many high level government officials around the world. These relationships include suspects ...
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Working for a company based in Paris remotely from Sri Lanka
I'm Sri Lankan, I live in Sri Lanka and I'm going to have a remote job in a Paris company(It'll end up my current job contract at next year July, which I bond to the Paris company by a Secondment ...
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Has "ideological payment" or "emotional payment" qualified someone as a mercenary in a Western or international court of law?
According to a certain rendition of the Russian viewpoints:
The persons were motivated entirely by private gain, in this case the "feel-good" emotion that comes with killing Russians [...]
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Would the EU's common security and defense policy force the entire EU to war with Russia if Ukraine joins?
Given that the common security and defense policy "also entails collective self-defence amongst member states" with the only (and debated) exceptions being Austria, Ireland, Finland, Malta ...
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Diplomatic law and car plates
What should the Ministery of Foreign Affairs of a country A do in the case in which the diplomatic car plate number is stolen in a country B? And what should the State Department do?
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How is the GNU Unifont and other bitmap fonts public domain?
The U.S. doesn't recognize type design as a copyrightable thing, only vectorized fonts, but what does that really mean?
Is a bitmap font made in the United States public domain abroad?
Are only the ...
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Are Wagner militants considered combatants under the IHL?
Are Wagner militants fighting in Ukraine considered combatants under the international humanitarian law? Here's what the OSCE has to say
Members of private military and security companies such as the ...
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Can a foreign name change document be accepted by US government institutions?
Suppose Alice Jones nee Smith got married in Turkey, and she is issued a Turkish marriage certificate which certifies her new married name, and then she moves to the US and applies for a driver ...
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Could the President, Senate, and a foreign country circumvent the House to pass a law?
If the Senate and President wanted to pass a law, but the House of Representatives voted against it, could the President and Senate pass it by including it in a treaty with a foreign country (assuming ...
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employee contract methods for working in multiple countries
What are legal methods of writing an employee contract so that an employee of one company can work in multiple coutries? Eg one week in country A, one week in country B, one week in country C, etc.
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Receiving transactions to a company bank account located in a different country
Can a company based in a country A receive incoming transactions to a bank account that belongs to the company but is in a different country?
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contradictory laws
If there are multiple laws:
a) in a country (all the laws in one country)
b) in multilple different countries and / or multinational unions (all laws in different entities, e.g. all in a different ...
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Are there any countries without copyright?
Are there any countries that do not recognize any form of copyright, and you could legally (for example) strip the DRM from a just-released movie and share it online?
If so, what happens if I (a US ...
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