This post will review the case of Guiles v. Marineau, 461 F.3d 320 (2nd Cir 2006) cert denied June 29, 2007, another student freedom of speech case. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a school could not censor a student's t-shirt where the shirt, at the ...

Like the famous song sung by the Beatles, when you find yourself in times of trouble you need someone speaking words of wisdom to be there for you. In a situation where the crisis is a personal injury caused by the negligence or intent of another party the friend who can speak words of w ...

With identity theft on the rise, it is necessary to be aware of how thieves operate and what you can do to protect yourself. This article will deal specifically with these issues regarding debit cards and ATM cards. With ATM and debit cards, it is the PIN that poses the risk for identity ...

Free copyright music is often mistaken with free public domain music or music in which the copyright has expired. A copyright is in place for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years. If more than one songwriter has authored the music, then the copyright will be in effect for 70 years af ...

Is there one governing law for international software copyright According to agreements by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIP), any software written has an automatic copyright. This is a conclusive consensus as far as an ...

Software copyright laws are among the most difficult to enforce among the masses. Many companies and corporations are well known for overlooking these laws, which were designed to protect the creation of software from not earning their worth. Perhaps one of the biggest hitches why many s ...

The Copyright Law Act of 1976 is the basis of United States copyright laws. The Copyright Law Act states the rights of copyright owners, the doctrine of the Fair Use copyright laws, and it changed the term life of copyrights. Before the Copyright Law Act, the law had not been revised sin ...

The European Community Trademark is a system whereby a trademark owner may file one trademark application with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), in one of the designated language, which, once registered, gives the trademark owner rights in all countries of the E ...

Thailand is becoming an ever more popular retirement and choice of country to live with its low costs and beautiful scenery not forgetting of course the world famous friendliness of the Thais themselves. But finding out about the laws governing property ownership here can be confusing. H ...

With less than nine months to go before the biggest shake-up in Work Permit history, employers and migrants have no idea how the new points system will actually work. This week I met with Home Office representatives from the Points Based Team to discuss the key role of the sponsor, one o ...

It is very common within the private investigation industry to refer to surveillance as part art and part science. Some even state the longer one does it he/she can become an alchemist and transforms it from the science into the art at a highly developed level, well I modified that state ...

You live in Texas, you have just been served with divorce papers, and you have no idea about what the process entails. This article will provide some answers to those questions; however, it should be noted that everyone's circumstances are different and just as no two marriages are alik ...

Face it. Financial bottom lines are affected by the fact we live in a world that judges a book by its cover. Pretty singers sell more records, court cases rank higher in the news if the person is attractive, and politicians are elected based on their image as much any other factor. Looki ...

Copyright infringement is not an easy thing to explain. While it may seem as simple as not using someone elses work, its not that easy. Thanks to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and many other organizations, we have the ability to use others works -- as long as we use it under Fair U ...

Life is very much unpredictable. No one knows what is in store for him or her. We all take life as it comes. We do make plans but as the famous saying goes man proposes God disposes, it seems like we never get to materialize what we plan. In fact we tend to move along the path that has b ...

Recently, I met with a commercial lender who mentioned a problem with one of his projects. Construction had started, but the developer hadnt closed the construction loan. Thus the lenders mortgage hadnt been recorded, but likely would be soon. He wondered how the delay might affect the p ...

Though the United States media have published a number of stories deriding China's intellectual property protection, those articles nearly always neglect to mention that in most instances involving trademarks, the fault lies with the foreign company, not with Chinese enforcement. The rea ...

This week saw the publications of the Joint Epilepsy Council of the UK and Ireland's online parliamentary report: "Wasted Money, Wasted Lives". A long list of failures in the care and treatment of people with epilepsy has resulted in around 400 avoidable deaths a year and 189 million in ...

Publication of the Healthcare Commission's long-awaited report into the quality of care provided by independent sector treatment centres (ISTC's) has been delayed still further. At a Commons debate on ISTCs in May health minister Andy Burnham said the report would be published in June. E ...

A new website offers data on hospital success rates in childrens heart surgery but, according to Michelmores, families whose children were severely injured as a result of botched surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary ten years ago are still waiting. Those cases are not covered by the in ...