Carr also threatened the site with copy infringement for publishing the photos, indicating that Andrews now has legal ownership over them.
Without legal ownership, de Soto says, such assets are just dead capital.
That pattern certainly appears to be very true in American cities, at least with respect to legal gun ownership.
Gun-rights advocates, including the NRA, have raised concerns about tracking this data, including the possibility that acknowledging legal gun ownership could bring higher insurance premiums.
Separating legal and equitable ownership, results in a very powerful mechanism to help you to avoid probate.
There has been a long legal battle over ownership of the paintings, which went all the way to the US Supreme Court.
The country ranks 15th in the world in terms of legal per capita gun ownership.
Spain won a five-year legal dispute to claim ownership for the treasures found by a US firm.
But the commission's inquiry has concluded that any legal action to establish Crown ownership of the range would have little prospect of success.
"Before I'd put this property on the market, they would have to have a legal document" spelling out ownership and rights, says Sandy Yeatman, a real-estate agent in Kennett Square, Pa.
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It would also end a byzantine ownership structure that spawned numerous legal disputes and battles for control of the famous property.
Less than a year earlier, the Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab both had their IPL contracts terminated due to irregularities in team ownership structures, but a legal battle ended in favor of the teams, letting them remain part of the league.
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The Milton Keynes centre reverted to Crown Estate ownership because of an "obscure legal rule", when its previous owners went bankrupt.
Yukos officials are defiant, saying that, if the idea is to strip out the subsidiaries and leave an empty shell, their complex ownership structure will make it a tough legal battle.
If an ownership challenge arises, the insurer funds a legal defense.
Thankfully for team ownership, the Bombay High Court offered some legal relief by setting a hearing for September 24 and ruling that the BCCI must wait to take offers from new prospective ownership groups, like the 32-bank consortium that made an offer over the weekend to manage the team.
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According to Wolk, the prior legal efforts by some shareholders of Stan Lee Media to pursue ownership rights of the superhero characters were stymied because the claims were brought derivatively, with minority shareholders of Stan Lee Media trying to stand in the shoes of the company without its authorization, against both Marvel and Lee.
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In other words, an industry-wide standard for returns is a good idea, but it faces a serious uphill legal battle and only resolves a small portion of the problem over digital ownership.
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The end user license agreements (EULAs) of many online games state that the relevant game operators have exclusive control and ownership of the games, and virtual items therein have no legal significance or status.
Lately a lot of the international discussion about music has come to focus on ownership, a concept that itself is married to a history of legal disputes over sampling, band names, and musical compositions.
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Mr Chapman also said legal work was currently under way to push through a compulsory purchase order, so ownership of the pier would first transfer to Hastings Council and then the trust early next year.
De Soto argues that the "surprise revolution"--the movement of millions from the countryside to cities--has been choked in its potential for uplift not because slum dwellers lack talent or energy but because the legal systems in their new locales don't allow them to be secure in ownership and accumulate wealth.
The ownership of the remaining 51% of PTC is currently at the centre of a legal dispute, with Deutsche Telekom saying it had an option to buy Elektrim's stake without reference to Vivendi.
Management agreed and signed a legal document that made the web publicly available in such a way that no one could claim ownership of it and that would ensure it was a free and open standard for everyone to use.
She continues her presentation with the desired percentage of ownership the Angels want for their investment in the company, and a request to include employees in a stock option plan of up to 15% of ownership in the company prior to the Angels investment, along with a list of legal requirements and terms.
If there are indeed such links, then the foreign ownership of PTNNT is raised to an unacceptable 51%, and Newmont may face a legal action for violating its contract.
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