My future career is to have my own fashion design company, with my own boutique. As an owner of a small business my role would be to buy/create the clothes, stock the shelves, and hire people to run the store (managers, sales associates, cashiers, etc.). I will be responsible for making sure that the store is clean, organized, and ready for customers. There are many laws that are out there for starting a business. In order to have a successful business you are responsible for following the law. Some laws that I’ll be responsible for following are the Patent Law, Copyright Infringement, and Equal Opportunity Laws’. A patent grants property ownership to the person who created the invention/design. The Patent Law “Grants the patent holder the
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A Copyright is a type of protection law that is given to people who create their own kind of work. “Copyright infringement is the act of violating any of a copyright owner’s exclusive rights granted by the federal Copyright Act.” This is a law for any person who is looking to start his/her own logo to make sure that the logo they choose is one of a kind and not one that other people have. An example would be the Michael Kors logo. He uses MK on everything that his company creates, and you don’t see any other fashion design company with that same logo. This law could have an impact on small businesses because something that you spent your money, and have most likely been working on forever, will be protected.
The Equal Opportunity Law (Act) “is a that law makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform equal work in the same workplace.The law also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person because the person complained about discrimination, filed a charge of discrimination, or participated in an employment discrimination investigation or lawsuit.” This law states that no matter what race or gender you are, you must be treated equally. Everyone has to get paid the same, there is no such thing as a male dominant position. Anyone is up for that
A Copyright is a type of protection law that is given to people who create their own kind of work. “Copyright infringement is the act of violating any of a copyright owner’s exclusive rights granted by the federal Copyright Act.” This is a law for any person who is looking to start his/her own logo to make sure that the logo they choose is one of a kind and not one that other people have. An example would be the Michael Kors logo. He uses MK on everything that his company creates, and you don’t see any other fashion design company with that same logo. This law could have an impact on small businesses because something that you spent your money, and have most likely been working on forever, will be protected.
The Equal Opportunity Law (Act) “is a that law makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform equal work in the same workplace.The law also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person because the person complained about discrimination, filed a charge of discrimination, or participated in an employment discrimination investigation or lawsuit.” This law states that no matter what race or gender you are, you must be treated equally. Everyone has to get paid the same, there is no such thing as a male dominant position. Anyone is up for that