Reasoning of the law

The lawyer I talked provided and in depth of information and answers for my questions. We talked about the differences in torts and crimes for where I was heading. "Because tort law is so broad, it takes a while to understand its boundaries." pg. 77 

My lawyer went into depth about his answers when I asked him the ones dealing with copyright. The lawyer answered my question on the important issue dealing with intellectual property he answered The first big issue is who owns the content. The question of ownership is very technical. It is almost like a complicated jigsaw puzzle. There are copyrights, trademarks, licenses, and all sorts of things that you need to consider first to make sure that you’re nice and safe. He meant that there was a lot to go through for my work to be protected and dealing with ownership. "A working knowledge of these issues can help everyone from business executive to citizen alike." pg. 103 

The lawyer had quite some answers and went to my questions in a certain approach. When it came to the question about infringement  he answered even if you run a blog site and someone uploads copyrighted material to it and you haven’t made certain filings with the U.S. Copyright Office for safe harbor, you’re in trouble. What he means is that I need to do certain filing and I can get in trouble regardless if it is not mine and I admit it but the fact with someone else's work on my blog can get torn down and pay a huge fine. It will make things for you better if you did know that you are liable for innocent infringement. It would worse if you did not know because that can land someone in a whole lot of trouble. 

  "Fraud refers to various crimes, all of which have a common element: the deception of another person for the purpose of obtaining money or property from him" pg. 114  

Fraud is what I would like to avoid next to copyright issues.

Legal Authority

It was not an easy task to reach a lawyer. I did my research online to find lawyers that dealt with copyright, patent, trademark, and intellectual property which ever subject would be just fine.. I stumbled upon Weide & Miller which dealt with all the subjects I have listed. Now I should remember "Unethical behavior is a risky business strategy and it may lead to disaster" pg. 20
I needed to make absolute sure that every single word coming out of my word did not sound like a kid in elementary school. I needed them to be professional, mature, and prepared to talk to the professionals."When making ethical decisions, people sometimes on the reason for the decision and they want to do what is right" pg. 20 I contacted the place and I'm suggesting the person at the front desk answered. I asked him if there was an attorney available for me to talk to on questions about trademark, copyrights, and all related topics. He tells me the attorneys will like to answer my questions for a cost of being to explain in depth questions about them. I was truly nervous because one screw up with my vocabulary meant the end of talking in an interview and the cost of me failing.That right there gave me an authority to talk to one of lawyers and amazingly I did. The man I talked lasted over half an hour. We went over my questions I asked and even went as far before even conducting the interview this is for a college project. I went in deep begging and pleading for him to help me out and even told him that you were in that time Mr. you know what it felt like to do projects that landed your career and made who you are today. The persuasion worked and the man was very nice and I'm very surprised I did not have pay to talk to him. The fact he did not charge me for the half an hour interview truly gave me a sense of hope. I thought this company that resides near Summerlin, Las Vegas was a great choice. I was truly surprised by how honest the lawyer was to me and how he was not a greedy cheap lawyer now these days. The interview went quickly and easily and I was satisfied with some of his answers and I did agree and disagree with some terms but occasionally we worked it out.

The Questions Final

Ian Galdamez
BUS250H Contracts, Negotiations, and Copyright
These questions I am asking to the lawyer are all related to the subjects of Intellectual property and copyright issues. Some indeed are important to not only for me in the future but for others as well. The terms involved here all deal with copyright and trademark issues and trying your absolute best to make sure all of your work is protected. "Each of us have a duty to behave as a reasonable person would under the circumstances" pg. 94

1. What is the most important problem related dealing with intellectual property for an online content publisher?
2. There is always going to be different terms and tasks for this but what is the difference an assignment, a work made for hiring, and a license?
3. There will be times where it can happen to not me but anyone else. Why should I care so much about getting ownership issues resolved
4. I may not know this either, and the penalty will be massive and put anyone in misery. When are there times where I can be liable to infringement?
5. This is constantly happening a lot. How do some sites such as YouTube get away with such acts?
6. How about when it comes to linking videos? Is it all right to do so?
7. How can I fully protect myself when I'm licensing my own content such as work, posts, and blogs?
8. Is labeling Your work with the copyright logo guaranteed that your work is protected from thiefs?
9. It is going to be a rough time for me indeed for this. How can I easily solve the very complex issues that deal with copyright and ownership?
10. How will I know what type of protection is available for my work and/or projects?

Used Cars

In the movie of Used Cars for the crimes committed are:

1. Assault and battery in the bar
2.Speeding on the highway from the multiple cars on the road.

Bratz Brawl

Week 9 EOC Bratz Brawl 

The doll wars between the brands Barbie and Bratz heads back to the court once again. They head back to court this time to prove the idea of Isaac's Larian MGA Entertainment Inc. stole the toy's company intellectual property when it created the first popular Bratz dolls about 10 years ago. The main issue is to settle who is the official owner of the Bratz dolls. Some parts of the case have been litigated in federal court in Santa Ana, California will be going to dueling allegations that each of the companies have participated in a battle of dirty deeds in an effort to steal trade secrets. The company MGA disguised themselves as retails or toy sellers equipped with fake business cards in order to get into the competitors show rooms at toy fairs and collect information on their rivals. MGA will provide evidence for the court that shows Mattel involved in an unfair competition by getting a retailer to remove every single product from MGA from all of its stores and even go as far and ruin a deal with a video game company because of its alliance with Bratz according to the courts. The video game company was THQ. Mattel argues both allegations, Mike Zeller, an attorney for Mattel spoke that the information was stolen and were not trading secrets. MGA officially released in public. For Mr. Zeller, he says allegations about the stuff with THQ are not all correct. It is ok for a company to do work with another company until there is concerns. Mattel accuses employees of MGA for sneaking into its showrooms to peek at incoming products during toy fairs. Mattel also adds that MGA stole trade secrets by encouragement of employees from Mexico and Canada. The court will go in detail from both sides.

EOC Week 8

EOC Week 8-  10 Questions 

1. For projects on my career for visual effects, how are some ways to fully protect my work from others? 

2. My property is mine and mine alone, if I were to own a business and other employees and I'm an employer or owner, how can they use it safely without violation of taking credit for my work? 

3. What is an important issue with intellectual property for an owner especially when performing the task online? 

4. What is the difference between work for hire, a license, and an assignment? 

5. How will I know when I am truly liable for copyright infringement? 

6. What are some successful easy ways to deal with very complex issues of copyright and/or ownership? 

7. How are some ways to truly protect myself especially when I am licensing content for my work? 

8. Should I be careful for linking videos for work? 

9. How can YouTube get away with intellectual property issues? 

10. Is labeling your work with the copyright logo make it official to be absolutely protected?

EOC Week 7 Lawyers

EOC Week 7 Lawyers

1.       Collucci & Umans – Intellectual property Las Vegas, NV 646-480-1507/ www.collucci-umans.com

2.       Goldstein Law Offices, P.C. Intellectual property Lawyers serving Las Vegas/ 212-500-1845 Free Consultation/                                                www.goldsteinpatentlaw.com

3.        Preston Sterling Kerr – Intellectual property Lawyers in Las Vegas 702-608-0835 www.sterlingkerrlaw.com

4.       Weiss & Moy, P.C. serving Clark County. Full Intellectual Property Law firm. 480-999-1620 http://www.weissiplaw.com/

5.       Kenehan & Lambertsen Limited/ Patents and Trademarks Attorney/ 702-997-1732 http://www.johnlambertsen.com/

6.       McDonald Carano Wilson LLP. Highly rated Law Firm practicing intellectual property since 1949/  702-873-4100 http://www.mcdonaldcarano.com/

7.       Olsen, Cannon, Gormley, Angulo, & Stoberski A professional Corporation/ Practice Civil Trial and Appellate Courts/ 888-614-6103  www.Ocgas.com

8.       Neil J. Beller/ Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy, or real estate/702-706-8929                       www.neiljbeller.com/

9.       Weide & Miller , Ltd/ Intellectual property and Technology Law Firm/ 888-336-9296 http://weidemiller.com/

10.   Fredrickson, Mazeika, & Grant, LLP/ Practical to minimize the cilents litigation costs/                        (702) 384-4048                http://www.fmglegal.com/

EOC Week 6

In the northern area of the state of New York in a small town called Greece, the Supreme Court thinks the town that starts the sessions during the town’s board with prayers has been going over constitution boundaries. Supreme Court has looked back at the history of religion recognition and the court’s own traditions. The justices find this a difficult problem and also finding an absolute decision that won’t be satisfying for others. Even in the beginning of the session for the Supreme Court hearings, they say if it was a good idea to start with a prayer even though it is tradition that they start with one before the court session begins.

Two women, one is a Jew and the other is an atheist, challenge the policy of the town and say that officials from the Jew’s perspective, ignore the requests to change up the practice or try to make it more inclusive. The quote from the woman’s perspective “It is very divisive when you bring up the government with religion. I don’t believe in God but to hear these ministers talk about Jesus and some who questions her motives personally, it is not right.”

Keep your Theocracy off my Democracy is another quote from the court hearings saying that religion should never ever be involved in the government. For me, since I’m very religious after reading on the session. The town never had a policy for the prayers. Honestly for me, I don’t really care what goes on. If the situation was forced upon to do the prayers, then it would make sense because I don’t want to leave my house for a couple of minutes and so something that involves me praying for a few minutes and ending the session there. Religion shouldn’t cross to those boundaries at all.

Week 5 EOC

The internet today as we know is one of the most tools in the world for such tasks, as work, gathering information, the news, and multiple other assignments. Though it is a reliable tool to use for almost anything you could do it also has its challenges especially in the modern times. One of the biggest legal issues with the internet is our privacy.

Privacy in simple terms is information or activity you withheld from the public. The public doesn’t know about what you do other than what you normally do such as work. On social media, you can have the option to privatize certain information that you think can be tampered with by others. Such information such as a phone number, email address, or relationships can be private and never revealed to the public. Based on J. J Britz, he says that technology such the internet are hazards to anybody for their privacy.  He tends to try to legally revert and enforce some acts to our privacy to make absolute sure that our privacy is guaranteed to never be seen or altered.

 http://web.simmons.edu/~chen/nit/NIT'96/96-025-Britz.html

Another legal issue with internet is how children explore it. It is quite a challenge to actually handle how children explore the web since the internet is becoming a part of our culture in the modern times. There isn’t really any practical solution for children to avoid mature content but there has been website blocks in schools such gaming sites, social media, and porn sites.

http://www.internetsociety.org/children-and-internet-0#overlay-context=localcontent

One other annoying issue with the modern internet is spam. Spam congest networks making them difficult to read also they can cause viruses to your computer or laptop not only those problems but it makes you trust the internet a little less. Internetsociety.org tries to figure a way out to try to reduce the number of spam on a website and improve the internet. The organization has developed a project to combat spam. They also want an effective law that deals with spam and how to fight it.

http://www.internetsociety.org/spam

EOC Week 4 Copyrights

Definition of Copyright from Google

Copyright is the exclusive legal right that is given to an originator or an assignee to either print, publish, perform, film, record literacy, artistic, musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. It gives the creator or authorthe right to reproduce their work, gear up for other works, create copies of the work for profit and the profit goes to you only, perform the work publicly, and display your protected work publicly without anybody taking the idea.

 Original works are protected under the constitution of the U.S. and also granted by the law. The works of authorship are fixed in a binding medium of expression. Both published and unpublished work are both protected by copyright. Copyright protects any kind of work created and fixed in a binding form that is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine, device, or written material. For any material to be fully protected by copyright you must have the copyright symbol, your name, and the year when it was created. The instant the registration for copyright is on your work then it is instantly protected. Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, facts, or techniques. It only protects the work from the idea.

For anyone who wants to use your work for their own personal or presentable use, they have purchase the rights for your work and they cannot do the near same work as the one as yours. They can still use your work but it has to be used for some other work and not the exact same as yours.

Definiton of Patent from google

A patent is a government authority or license referring to a right or title for a set period of right.

Patent protects your work from others being used for sale and profit for someone else. A list of examples that can be patented are machines, a process, or article of manufacture. There is a list that you cannot be patented and they the laws of nature, ideas, or inventions specifically the ones that are not useful and are offensive to the public morality.

http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp

http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/what-is-copyright.html?DCMP=GOO-BUS_Copyright-Whatis&HBX_PK=what+is+copyright

www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

EOC Week 3 Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts starred in the blockbuster box office hit Erin Brockovich. The movie was actually based on a true story back then in the year 2000. Erin Brockovich was actually a real person and the inspiration behind the whole film since the beginning. Erin wasn’t at the Shrine Auditorium to celebrate Julia on the film, she was instead somewhere else housing a sick child. Erin was a mother who had gone through divorce twice. Roberts also didn’t thank her for the real life inspiration for the film. In the real world problems Erin was in a mess with her first ex-husband for many problems also adding to that she was being sued by her second ex-husband for defamation. So three interesting things came up from out of this. The movie was inspired by someone based on actual events that were happening at the same time during the making of the movie which is really amazing. Erin was having miserable time of her own with her two ex-husbands, one she was having serious problems and other was suing for defamation. The movie was still on the same page like Erin for the movie since she gave the inspiration behind the whole film in the first place. I find the whole concept of both the film making and event partaking and converging together that brought out the movie. The film was shot at the town where Erin lived and that adds more to the events and also the inspiration. PG&E actions in the film were also real. The story behind the hazardous chromium was true and the people in the town were drinking contaminated water and in real life. The movie also gave Julia a sense of uncomfortable to people because how she acted in the film but it was her choice to do for she wanted to have fun with it. 

EOC 2 Supreme Court

The Supreme Court as of in late 2013 opens up a new term during a government shutdown. Even with the shutdown affecting the country, the Court will run normally until the end of week since its new term beginning in the first Monday of October. The term will be rather short for Supreme Court due to battles over Health Care and Gay marriage.

 Supreme Court has had states where they despise them for them denying rights for same sex marriage also abortion. Supreme Court has unfinished business to deal with in their new term. They have major issues with college and who’s allowed in it also the government denying health benefits to married gay couples.

One other is the government dealing with elections more specifically the ones who had a history of discrimination towards African-Americans. The court now in its new term is still refusing to adopt for itself the ethical code that they enforce. The U.S. judges under the Code of Conduct are instructed to maintain their own independence by acting either without fear or favor.

Judges from now on have to disqualify themselves from cases for which involve them and their family who have the same personal interest. It also helps with them to disclose their personal finances. Some members of Supreme Court have followed the Code of Conduct, but they have resisted calls that the court adopt it and create a sort of mechanism to enforce it.

The justice is left with the decision for him or her to disqualify themselves from a case, it’s on them to whether leave or go along with the case. They can be openly and also associated with political issues or candidates. Supreme Court has many major issues to deal with for the people and the country.

EOC 1 My Voice

My name is Ian Galdamez. I’m currently attending the Art Institutes in Las Vegas, Nevada to pursue my Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. Visual Effects and Motion Graphics in simple terms is pretty much creating your own backgrounds and animated worlds. They are both equal but perform their own tasks and have their own specified job to do. Visual Effects takes actual photos or videos and try to mix up the background with engineered imagery. In simple terms you can take the city of Vegas, put a normal sunny day and turn the entire city into a snow valley also adding to that you can give a running video and change up the picture to something else like give it bright happy look or give a suspenseful dull as in moody scenery. That is what adds to amazement for Visual effects. It is making an image or video seem much more appealing and giving it something to live up for besides just the image. It is all based on the picture of a film or the video. Motion Graphics focuses on logos and writing, you can take a regular font and get creative and make it something unique like create a font for something like a happy fun time show or create a font for a creepy place or movie and make it suit the title. Logos also have potential for the title of the movie. It gives its identity for the movie and title because nobody wants a dull simple title, they want a logo that can catch your attention, and surprise you. It’s all about being creative and doing something new. The commercials we see for movies in my opinion are about capturing your attention to the film and it’s the scenery and atmosphere of the movie that does it. You can thank Visual Effects for the scenery of the movie and motion graphics for the title and anything else based on it. Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. Terms and definitions here: www.agencypost.com/visual-effects-vfx-vs-motion-graphics/. Something new appeared from the VFX news also I found out out about it. A new kind of engine for VFX called Monster Gt is proclaimed to be one of a kind, fast, and remarkable for their graphics and design. The effects that comes from the engine are the ability to stylize the effects such as nightvision or brush. The feature to warp and distort the visual effects. For background or specialized effects, Gt includes fluid particles and dynamics such as fire, rain, puddles, smoke, snow, and etc. Site here for terms and insight on the Monster Gt Engine: http://www.genarts.com/software/monsters-gt/overview

Visual effects and motion graphics today is used in our everyday lives. It is everywhere from our TVs, our game systems, our phones, our city lifestyle and anything in between. It’s what gives our blockbuster movies such an amazing picture and the great design that is used for it. Same goes for TV, our TV are redefined and renewed with new shows with stunning graphics and great atmosphere added to the show and in the episodes. Visual effects and motion graphics shape our society to how it is. It reshapes our culture for entertainment. Personally for me I like to enjoy on what comes out of it. Being able to make the image much more phenomenal than it seems with just some changes.