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.