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Questions tagged [ownership]

Questions about ownership of property. More specific tags include real-estate, intellectual-property, common-property, community-property. More general tags include property.

Ownership concerns rights to real, personal, or intellectual property.

Topics that fall under this tag include:

  • real estate
  • chattels
  • copyright and other intellectual property
  • transfer of ownership
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Other customer grabbing my shopping

A situation that was discussed on another site: A goes to a store, sees an item he wants to buy, and puts it into his shopping trolley. It's the only item of that kind left in the store. B comes along. B would also want to buy the item. But the only…
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Who owns the asteroid/meteoroid?

This is a question I’ve been thinking about but I have no law experience so I wanted to ask it here. Suppose an high valued (suppose billions of dollars) asteroid/meteorite falls and lands on the earth. The question is: who gets to claim ownership…
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Am I allowed to blog about technical topics I was paid to learn about?

I work as a software engineer on lots of research topics where I look into new technologies. These topics have intersections with my private interests which I research on my own time after work. The software I produce during my working hours…
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intellectual property rights infringement

if i download a picture of product from merchant website, who owns the IPR of the picture? manufacturer or merchant. The product picture can be anything like mobile phone, a picture of a house or even of a Donald Trump.
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Can only people or businesses legally own something?

FYI I'm a programmer not a lawyer so please bear with me. In the US (or abroad), what type of entity can own something? Particularly, in the blockchain space, there exist "smart contracts" that can buy and sell crypto assets autonomously under a…
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Abandoned Purchase

I sell online. My customers build a box with me to save on shipping. After 30 days of inactivity I close boxes,pack and bill for shipping. I also ship when a customer requests. I've sent repeated messages for the customer to pay their shipping. They…
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Protecting intellectual property

I have a startup and I just sent via E-Mail some sample images to a family member who owns a small marketing and design company in the US. My parents had suggested it since we are on good terms with the person and we trust him. The images I sent are…
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