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Going back to the original topic of protection, though.
My girlfriend has a savings account with my name as a co-signer. If I'm sued and lose, is her savings account at risk?
I also have a small eTrade account, just a few hundred dollars in it pre-COVID. Is it also at risk? It's not a huge...
I don't disagree with you guys (non-gender specific intended) at all, Google Images definitely complicated things! I see WAY too many times where someone will search for an image, see it on Google, and think that it's public domain.
But that's not what I was doing.
What I don't really...
I don't mean to distract from the topic, which has been well answered :-) But I couldn't resist replying to this comment:
From my perspective (not legal at all, just what feels like common sense), having their data published in a public RSS feed that has no apparent licensing requirements or...
Interestingly, I can't find any list of publishers that Yahoo includes in their feed! Which means that I wouldn't even know who to ask :-/ And I can only assume that they'll add other publishers without warning, and I would have no way of knowing when that happens.
Which puts me in that bad...
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not arguing with you all, just frustrated at the situation. From my perspective (and I suspect most people that would use an RSS feed), if they didn't want their data to be used then they wouldn't submit it to a public RSS feed! It's mere existence implies consent...
One minor thing to add: I have never made any money at all from posting these news headlines, so it had absolutely no financial benefit to me. And, obviously, I never claimed them as my own: there's even a prominent "News provided by..." caption.
The only reason I ever used the feed in the...
Mods: I'm fine with my previous post being deleted completely, I'd rather not risk them finding it and linking it back to me.
I'm in a tough position where the money simply is not there to hire a copyright attorney... not that there's one within 200 miles of me, anyway. And it really doesn't...
I don't want to mention my state on the off chance that those shady lawyers find this and somehow use it against me! LOL But I can say that my state doesn't require insurance for my field, which means that I have no business coverage. If I'm sued then they'll be going after me, personally.
If...
Thanks for all of the advice! That's very helpful. I honestly doubt that it goes any further, the firm threatening is well known for being pretty shady. I got the first letter demanding money over 6 months ago, and I think that if they were going to do something then it would have progressed by...
My business is several years old, and is a sole proprietorship.
I've recently been threatened by a law firm for a bogus claim that could go to court. I know that I haven't done anything wrong, but of course that doesn't stop them from suing anyway; sadly, I've dealt with lawyers like that...
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