Statute of Anne

While many design fields aren’t as regulated as other fields like print and cinema, every designer should still develop their own CODE OF ETHICS to abide by when working with clients. According to the design institute of Australia, ethics is a rational study of the moral dilemmas in human action. A moral code can be either implicit or explicit and can be very subjective; there isn’t always a right or wrong solution. As a result, it is important for you to consider your own stance as a designer as well as who you are designing for and what kind of values they have. With a proliferation of do-it-yourself freebie template builders, as well as cheap layouts promising to deliver professional results for a fraction of the price, it can be easy for us to make unethical choices and produce less than professional work. While it might be easier to deliver websites and designs than don’t benefit a business, it is also unacceptable. As designers, we should consult closely with our clients to identify the purpose behind the work and the intended audience. It is our duty to advise clients on the implications of their design decisions, especially if those decisions may not benefit their business. You should also advise your client if you think their website is untruthful or breaks local or national laws. It is your ethical right to refuse to do work that is illegal. Another important consideration we need to make as designers is COPYRIGHT. You cannot use any aspect of someone else’s…

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…

§ 8-41-401(1)(a)(I). Thus, pursuant to this statute a “statutory employer” is an employer who is responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits. To put this more simply, the business or entity that is contracting out part or all of its work is considered to be the employer to those whom are performing that work, even though they are not directly working for that business. In this situation, the person performing the work is usually employed by a subcontractor. Ordinarily, an…

There are divided into legal, international legal and non legal. For instance, legislations, case law, royal prerogative, European Union(EU) law, constitutional conventions and academic writings. Firstly, legislation as in Thoburn v Sunderland City Council [2002] EWHC 195(Admin) also known as ‘Metric Martyrs’ case whereby it was held whether the European Communities Act 1972 had been impliedly repealed or restricted by the Weights and Measures Act 1985, it was suggested by Laws LJ that a…

Laws that control healthcare are from 4 sources; constitutional law, statutory law, regulatory law, and common law. Statutory law is a phrase used to define written laws, generally enacted by legislative body (HG.org n.d.). Congress and state legislatures pass acts and statutes, and municipalities pass ordinances (Neuberger, B. & Shoemaker, C.B. n.d.). These rulings control an extensive variation of human endeavors, and can address a need through programs, requirements, curtailment, or…

Common law is the development of systems and rules to articulate a decision based on precedent, tradition and customs. History has developed, through these techniques, to create an ideology that results in a massive grey area within the words. Laws have and will always be words on a piece of paper, the customs of the laws are unique. These customs, precedents, and traditions have created institutional inequality built into the architecture of law. This relationship is presented by Galanter,…

their goal. Examples of agencies in the United States include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, and Federal Communications Commission. Agencies are formed by an act of Congress, when they lay out what is called an organic statute that contains the purpose and structure of the agency, the agency then is in charge of implementing the purpose as laid out in the statues. The laws surrounding federal agencies are administrative laws. A statutory law is a law that is…

Dicey a British jurist and highly influential constitutional theorist. A.V. Dicey in his book Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885) brought out what can be argued as the two main principles of the British constitution, parliamentary sovereignty and rule of law. This principle of parliamentary sovereignty or supremacy makes parliament the supreme law making entity or legal authority in the United Kingdom. The laws made by parliament can not be overruled by the courts and…

Paula Price was fired for “whistleblowing” dishonest practice, and is suing her former employer, Automative Research & Testing (ARTI), for violating the whistleblower protection provisions of the Automobile Manufacture Integrity Act of 2014 (AMIA). Price was a contractor for Ford Motor Corporation (FMC). The primary focus of this case is the interpretation of the word “employee” in § 114(a)(1) of the AMIA and whether it includes contractors. Before analyzing the interpretation of the statute…

vast portion of our lives in Canada is spent working, and regardless of the work environment, we interact with other people who may or may not come from the same backgrounds and ideologies as we do. With no specific terminology in the Charter that includes employment law, we must look between the lines and find the connections that lay within. The Charter provides the roadmap for Canadian principles and social values; it lays out the rights and freedoms we have as a people, and promotes the…