Law of the United States

countries, such as Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and even India. The company has slated her to speak to the Maori of New Zealand to open a branch outside of Auckland. She has an understanding of the New Zealand’s European Common Law. It is similar to America’s English Common Laws; New Zealand only has a few Parliamentary changes. Both countries speak English. Also both governments are members of OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). OCED country members discuss and form…

The United States policy regarding trademarks, known officially as the U.S. Trademark Law, is incredibly important to the way American society functions on a daily basis. Not only does the law encourage competitive business, but it also plays an important role in both American culture and the legal system. A trademark is some type of symbol that points “distinctly to the origin or ownership of merchandise…and [is] legally reserved for the exclusive use of the owner” (in text). Oftentimes a…

acts of the criminal justice system exonerates many families throughout America society daily. Upon these reasons the prison system continues to grow because government focus poverty and unfair laws. The American government focus should be on correcting it society and not it’s pockets. For years the States justice system…

right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. under article 1 section 3 of the Constitution fair use is covered and copyright law is covered in section 108, the fair use law goes in effect when you are using a piece of someone else's piece of work for educational purposes. An example of the fair use law in action, say you…

Copyright infringement is "an offense created by the notion of copyright" that undermines the hard work of creators (Vaidhyanathan 67). According to Ohio State University, piracy"... occurs when [people] download, copy, fileshare, install, or distribute digitized materials in the form of computer software programs and entertainment without authorization from the owner/creator"(“Office of TheChief Information…

every country of the world. To help prevent it, the Hague Convention was made up to insure that a child has not been illegally adopted by a man or woman who wants to do him or her harm. The authority of the child's country has to agree with the United States' in order to continue with the adoption. In theory, it is a good proposition to keep children safe but it can cause difficulty for couples or an individual before he or she can adopt and fully call that…

Monkey Selfies: Questioning Copyright Laws and Constitutional Applications Last week, American animal rights organization the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, filed a novel lawsuit in San Francisco’s Federal Court on behalf of a macaque monkey for the copyright ownership over “selfies” it took dating back to 2011. The suit requests a court order to give PETA allowance to administer proceeds from the photos to benefit the monkey and the macaque reserve to…

No people in the United States rely more on the federal government than those who are housed by it, fed by it, employed by it, and barred from voting to change it. These people are incarcerated felons, and their disenfranchisement is a barrier to democracy and dialogue in America. According to The Sentencing Project, felony convictions have stripped 6.1 million Americans of the right to vote, enough to swing the popular vote in five of the last seven presidential elections. Of those…

In October of 2011 Texas Representative Lamar Smith introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act to the United States House of Representatives. The bill boasts heightened copyright laws that claim to protect free speech and creativity while it actually accomplishes the opposite. Online service providers, or OSPs, are the target of SOPA legislation. SOPA places liability for copyright law infringing content on innocent corporations that merely provide a platform for users to share content. Most…

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States of America. Roosevelt spent part of his presidency figuring out what companies were breaking the Sherman Act and putting them out of business. These companies were making it hard other the consumers and other companies that might have been trying to get their hand in the game. These bad trusts were not just stopping people from getting into the market but they were also making sure that the other companies that were already in the…