What is the ruling on working for an educational website that offers various services with an annual subscription, including: downloading books that may be protected by copyright, advertising training courses, among them a course on "Google AdSense" which may display ads for prohibited products or pictures of unveiled women, and providing a free program from which the name of the producing company has been removed? What is the ruling on the earnings acquired from that, and what is the legitimate way out of these matters?
Three aspects of the work must be adjusted:
1. Electronic Books: These must be limited to what their owners have authorized for publication or what is not copyrighted, as intellectual property rights are reserved for their owners.
2. Removal of the Producing Company's Name from Free Software: This is impermissible due to the deception and infringement on the company's intellectual property rights. The prohibition is further confirmed if the company stipulated the retention of its name.
3. Advertising Google AdSense Courses: It is not permissible to advertise these courses because working with this program is impermissible. Advertising must be restricted to permissible items.
As for the money the questioner previously received as a salary, there is no harm in benefiting from it, because the original benefit for which he was hired was permissible, namely, managing a website that predominantly deals with permissible matters.
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