Please help me answer these questions.

1(a)

You work for an individual that has paid another entity for the right to make copies of intellectual property. In this case, the owner of the company has licensed a plugin for your website that you, the developer has not integrated into the company's website. It's highly functional and has been increasing the value of your services. You speak with the owner about using the plugin with your own, unrelated site. You assure him that your website will not directly compete with his (and that's the truth). You pay him a rate to gain access to using the plugin and integrate it into your own website.

Read the below options and select the answer that best pertains to this situation.

This is legal because you have ensured that your business does not conflict with the business of your employer, who owns the copyright.

This is illegal because you have not informed the IP owner that you now have a copy and have already utilized it in your site.

This is legal, becuase you paid for the rights to copy from an owner of the IP

This is illegal because you have not paid the actual owner of the IP for rights to use the software.

2(b)

With respect to limited liability companies, if you hire somebody and place them in the title of manager, do they hold any ownership to the intellectual property that is being generated by your company?

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No, they do not. They are a hired employee to do a job you set out. Even if they generate IP, it's owned by the business.

Yes they hold ownership. Despite the fact that you are operating an LLC which protects YOU from lawsuits, it does not speak towards only you owning IP generated by the business.

3(c)

SCENARIO: I am eager to protect my work as I have been working with someone back and forth developing a new API (Application Programming Interface) for a project I am independently working on. I know that I have on occasion mentioned what I was working on to a few other developers who really seemed interested in the idea - they've even commented on what I'm doing every so often. I've not directly taken their ideas, but have used them as inspiration. I need to be sure to protect myself. I opt to put an incomplete version of what I've developed onto a thumb drive and mail it to myself to help prove that at this date and time, I had this much done. It'll serve as a historical document, if for any reason someone calls me out.

Read the below options and select the answer that best pertains to the situation.

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Sending myself a copy of the work through the US Mail will be helpful as it is stamped with a date, but ultimately is not something that can be used legally. This won't protect me.

This will provide me some legal gounds insomuch that I can prove that at least this much was done by me on that date. Anything that comes after needs further documentation.

Metadata in the file will be sufficient to prove that you are the owner. It will have all the information you need. Sending the file to yourself on a thumb drive provides further proof.

There are signficant concerns here given that you have spoken to someone about the work that you are doing, but this should be sufficient to protect you from any claims that you were not the original and/or sole owner.

(d)

You spend the better part of a year working on a project that you complete. On completion, you send pertinent materials to Washington D.C.'s Library of Congress. You begin distributing your software to users all over the web and collect fees. You are after all a business person who wants to generate income on your hard work. Six months go by. You then receive a cease and desist order from a law firm claiming copyright infringement. In an effort to defend yourself, you point them towards the Library of Congress record of your copyright. Unfortunately, the law firm rebuts with a similar reference to the Library of Congress with a record that predates yours.

Read the below options and select the answer that best pertains to the situation.

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You will have to discontinue because you cannot generate income if the complaintent is also generating income.

You can continue to operate as normal but will have to establish a contract with the IP owner or find some way to create a working contract so that you can continue. .

You can continue to operate as normal; this lawsuit is frivolous because you clearly had no contact with this individual and thus had no way to infringe upon their rights.

You will be forced to discontinue; your lack of knowedge doesn't negate infringement.