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Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and charge for it?
It's allowed by the Creative Commons Attribution -ShareAlike license, and intentionally so. The Wikimedia Foundation wants things like this to be possible; that is part of the goal of open content. (...
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Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and charge for it?
"they end up ranking higher than Wikipedia itself on Google". That's a highly unlikely scenario, unless you could somehow convince all current users of Wikipedia that switching to a paid ...
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Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and charge for it?
Wikipedia does not make any attempt to stop people creating and placing online copies of Wikipedia, or parts of it. Indeed it encourages people to do so. Not only does the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license ...
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What is the most comparable American law to GDPR right to subject access? Privacy Act?
HIPAA seems comparable but only applies to medical data, but is there
anything more general than that?
Not really, at least at the national level.
There is no comprehensive national regulation of ...
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Copyright implications of dismissing Individual and Representative Plaintiffs v. Github Inc, Microsoft Inc, OpenAI (et al.) on derived LLMs
A motion to dismiss sets no precedent
Whether it succeeds or not, it does not result in a judgement on the merits, it is simply an analysis on whether the case as pleaded shows the defendant has a ...
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How does GDPR's right to erasure apply to deduplicated storage?
I think there are a couple of different ways to look at this.
Deduplication is a technical detail that's irrelevant here
While the data may be deduplicated on a technical level, the files remain ...
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Is Pushshift.io compliant to GDPR if they refuse to delete collected content?
Maybe, but probably not
The geographic location of the organisation is immaterial: under Article 3.2:
This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union ...
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Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and charge for it?
Yes, it can be done legally. Although creating a mirror is not that simple nowadays, as the complexity of the pages increased through the years (images, wikidata, LUA…). You would also need to keep ...
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Can you host a version of Wikipedia on your own domain and charge for it?
As well as forks, there are also "mirrors". These are like forks, but update regularly to match changes in Wikipedia, so don't end up becoming nothing but a one-off snapshot of the site. ...
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Can I request to delete an account with a government?
In order to process data (which includes storing data), a data controller must establish one or more of the lawful bases contained at Article 6(1) of the UK GDPR. Briefly, those are:
a) Consent of the ...
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Is it legal to ask users to pay for exporting their data?
Thanks to Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the answer to your question generally now seems to be "No, it is not legal to ask users to pay for exporting their data". ...
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Access rights to professional photographs
The photograph committed a felony in germany
Making photos of a person in Germany and then offering to sell it to them is considered Nötigung in Germany, which is a felony, and a violation of the ...
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Access rights to professional photographs
australia
You must be given access
The organisation may charge a reasonable administration fee for this.
They may impose a licence on copyrighted materials such as prohibiting use other than verifying ...
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Must medical providers/businesses give a copy of a patient's medical record to the patient if the patient requests it in France?
Yes, see https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F12210.
The rest of the answer is a partial summary in English of what that link says. If you can read French, go read the link instead. ...
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Is it possible to have any kind of ownership over historical family mottos?
In US law, historic mottos are no longer protected by copyright, if they ever were. That would include any published prior to 1927 at the moment.
However, short phrases, such as mottos are not ...
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Is Pushshift.io compliant to GDPR if they refuse to delete collected content?
It is quite possible that Pushshift is not subject to the GDPR. But it's impossible to know for sure until a court rules on this specific case.
As Dale M's answer correctly points out, we have to ...
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Can two or more different entities simultaneously be data controllers for the same data?
Not in the example
Alice is a customer of ACME. ACME is the Data Controller. ACME contracts Fastmail as a Data Processor.
Data Processors are different from Data controllers.
Yes in general
Let's say ...
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