Are the new terms of use in Windows 10 forbidden (haram) or permissible (halal)?
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The Islamic Fiqh Academy, in its fifth conference, resolved that:
1. Names, addresses, trademarks, authorship, inventions, and innovations are private rights belonging to their owners, and they possess considerable financial value according to . Infringement upon them is impermissible. 2. Rights of authorship, invention, or innovation are protected by Sharia, and their owners have the right to dispose of them. Infringement upon them is impermissible.
Accordingly, the rights of the software owners are reserved for them, and it is not permissible to infringe upon them.
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