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Advertise that buying one product will support the creation of a different product
The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InIs intentionally advertizing and billing for more service than provided legal if the contract mentions that the quality of service is variable?
Lets say i'm a video game developer, and I am coming out with a hot new game called 'X'. The time it takes to produce X is years and years. Through those years, I spent a month to take a break making game 'Y'. Y is a complete game. Can I say to potential customers of X, that "hey, Y is out, and you can buy that to support me, and support the continued creation of X".
I personally don't think it should be illegal, because it's true... but i'm not sure that's how the law works so that's why i'm asking here. Thanks!
ps. this is just an example... and just broadly speaking, I am asking if it is evidently illegal or not.
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Lets say i'm a video game developer, and I am coming out with a hot new game called 'X'. The time it takes to produce X is years and years. Through those years, I spent a month to take a break making game 'Y'. Y is a complete game. Can I say to potential customers of X, that "hey, Y is out, and you can buy that to support me, and support the continued creation of X".
I personally don't think it should be illegal, because it's true... but i'm not sure that's how the law works so that's why i'm asking here. Thanks!
ps. this is just an example... and just broadly speaking, I am asking if it is evidently illegal or not.
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What part of that are you concerned about being illegal?
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Lets say i'm a video game developer, and I am coming out with a hot new game called 'X'. The time it takes to produce X is years and years. Through those years, I spent a month to take a break making game 'Y'. Y is a complete game. Can I say to potential customers of X, that "hey, Y is out, and you can buy that to support me, and support the continued creation of X".
I personally don't think it should be illegal, because it's true... but i'm not sure that's how the law works so that's why i'm asking here. Thanks!
ps. this is just an example... and just broadly speaking, I am asking if it is evidently illegal or not.
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asked 1 hour ago
return truereturn true
1253
Lets say i'm a video game developer, and I am coming out with a hot new game called 'X'. The time it takes to produce X is years and years. Through those years, I spent a month to take a break making game 'Y'. Y is a complete game. Can I say to potential customers of X, that "hey, Y is out, and you can buy that to support me, and support the continued creation of X".
I personally don't think it should be illegal, because it's true... but i'm not sure that's how the law works so that's why i'm asking here. Thanks!
ps. this is just an example... and just broadly speaking, I am asking if it is evidently illegal or not.
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asked 1 hour ago
return truereturn true
1253
asked 1 hour ago
return truereturn true
1253
asked 1 hour ago
return truereturn true
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asked 1 hour ago
return truereturn true
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asked 1 hour ago
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What part of that are you concerned about being illegal?
– Putvi
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What part of that are you concerned about being illegal?
– Putvi
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What part of that are you concerned about being illegal?
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What part of that are you concerned about being illegal?
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That is entirely lawful. The law only sanctions advertisements that are deliberately deceptive, such as the practices listed in this statute.
One of the prima facie elements of fraud, unjust enrichment, or related torts, is that your representation of working on game X be knowingly false (which you mention it is not).
Most important, the circumstances may support the reasonable conclusion that the funds you receive are first and foremost for the video game you are actually providing in that transaction (game Y). In other words, the promise of releasing game X sometime in the future is not really what prompts customers to pay you.
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That is entirely lawful. The law only sanctions advertisements that are deliberately deceptive, such as the practices listed in this statute.
One of the prima facie elements of fraud, unjust enrichment, or related torts, is that your representation of working on game X be knowingly false (which you mention it is not).
Most important, the circumstances may support the reasonable conclusion that the funds you receive are first and foremost for the video game you are actually providing in that transaction (game Y). In other words, the promise of releasing game X sometime in the future is not really what prompts customers to pay you.
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That is entirely lawful. The law only sanctions advertisements that are deliberately deceptive, such as the practices listed in this statute.
One of the prima facie elements of fraud, unjust enrichment, or related torts, is that your representation of working on game X be knowingly false (which you mention it is not).
Most important, the circumstances may support the reasonable conclusion that the funds you receive are first and foremost for the video game you are actually providing in that transaction (game Y). In other words, the promise of releasing game X sometime in the future is not really what prompts customers to pay you.
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That is entirely lawful. The law only sanctions advertisements that are deliberately deceptive, such as the practices listed in this statute.
One of the prima facie elements of fraud, unjust enrichment, or related torts, is that your representation of working on game X be knowingly false (which you mention it is not).
Most important, the circumstances may support the reasonable conclusion that the funds you receive are first and foremost for the video game you are actually providing in that transaction (game Y). In other words, the promise of releasing game X sometime in the future is not really what prompts customers to pay you.
answered 48 mins ago
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That is entirely lawful. The law only sanctions advertisements that are deliberately deceptive, such as the practices listed in this statute.
One of the prima facie elements of fraud, unjust enrichment, or related torts, is that your representation of working on game X be knowingly false (which you mention it is not).
Most important, the circumstances may support the reasonable conclusion that the funds you receive are first and foremost for the video game you are actually providing in that transaction (game Y). In other words, the promise of releasing game X sometime in the future is not really what prompts customers to pay you.
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