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In the fair use trial, Disney is competing with professor Faden over his “A Fair(y) use Tale” Movie. In this movie Professor Faden uses little pieces of Disney's work to create a film about fair use. We should use the four factors of fair use to find the answer to our problem. The first factor of fair use is the purpose and character of the use. I think this is done correctly. He stated that “the purpose of this work is to entertain people, and educate viewers about fair use principles”.When I…

religions. Women, people with disabilities and families with children may also face barriers to their fair housing rights. For many families, discrimination in housing was brought to the forefront in the 1960s. In the United States before 1968, laws were not established to protect minorities from inequality and discrimination that occurred when attempting to purchase a house, or apartment. Thus, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, also referred to as Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act, was created to…

Since 1920, American women have advocated for their rights as citizens such as the right to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, to work, and the right to fair wages or equal pay. Throughout time our culture has created great advancements for women’s rights especially in the work place for instance the implication of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits employers from paying different wages for males and females for the same work.…

In August of 2008 the late Christopher Hitchens wrote an essay published in Vanity Fair that was titled “Believe Me, It’s Torture”. This essay was unique because of its strange pairing of content and audience. Christopher Hitchens had decided to put a fairly controversial political essay in a magazine that targets women, covers fashion and pop culture, and typically steers away from politics entirely. This shows that his intended audience was the average adult woman in america. Christopher…

Ethical Parameters Applicable to Business Situations The FSLA or Fair Labor Standards Act was established in 1938 by Congress to protect workers from exploitation and ensure the opportunity for people to earn a “living wage”. The Principals set forth in the act apply to non-exempt employees. Non-exempt simply means employees that are paid an hourly wage. As the name suggests, there are certain types of employees that are exempt from the rules set forth by the FSLA, which we will discuss…

Enacted by Congress in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) established a 25 cent minimum wage, a 44 hour long work week, which was later revised in 1940 to only 40 hours per week, and prohibited child labor (Fair Labor Standards, n.d.). However, in 1940, Fred Darby of Darby Lumber failed to comply to the regulations of the FLSA and was arrested when shipping lumber out of state because he was working his employees overtime and paying them under the minimum wage requirement. After a hearing…

Mrs. Ledbetter was not compensated for the injustice, but it brought the case front and center that even after the tragic outcome something good came out of it. On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which stated the 180 days statute of limitations would reset every time an individual received a discriminatory paycheck. It also promoted voluntary compliance by employers, for example, some employers took measures to develop compensation…

Introduction We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, “You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you would threaten the man. If you are the bread winner in your relationship with a man, you have to pretend that you’re not. Especially in public. Otherwise you will emasculate him -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED | We Should All Be Feminists). This quote describes one of the biggest problem…

The United States Department of Labor announced this year, on the eighteenth of May, that there will be a rule change regarding the Overtime Rule. The change was stated to be implemented starting on the first of December. This rule, however, was delayed by a federal judge, on the twenty-second of November, preventing it from going into effect on the initial scheduled date. The Fair Labor Standards Act was created to have employers compensate their employees at least their minimum hourly wage,…

America is rooted on its ability to grow businesses and prosper. Basically, money is the blood in the body known as the United States of America. Ironically, it takes money to make money. Meaning that to uphold any business, money has to be used to create the foundation, and once the foundation is set, money is needed to keep the business circulating healthily. The main way to do that is to adamantly supply and cover the workers of the business, because they are truly the backbone of the entire…