... case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission. What types of creative work does copyright protect? Copyright protects works such as poetry, movies, CD-ROMs, video games, videos, plays, paintings, sheet music, recorded music performances, novels, software code, sculptures, photographs, choreography and architectural designs. To qualify for copyright protection, a work must ... ; Minors may claim copyright, but state laws may regulate the business dealings involving copyrights owned by minors. For information on relevant state laws, consult...

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... of a Trademark Criteria For Registering a Trademark Walt Disney v. GoTo.com Introduction Intellectual property is an intangible form of property that refers to creations of the mind. It is protected by law because it is owned and used exclusively by a person or a firm. Intellectual property could be divided into two categories: Copyright, which refers to literary and artistic works ... to an enormous increase of piracy, where it became virtually impossible to prevent copyright thefts. Nearly anyone can photocopy a book using photocopying machines, or duplicate a computer program with a C...

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... pop acts, and high profiles for heavy metal and new age music highlighted 1987. Business boomed as sales of compact disk (CD) players rose rapidly and record companies issued many new albums and reissued old albums on CD. New technology included CD video, that blends video and high-quality digital audio, and super-VHS video, which gets very good video quality thanks to ... the growing list of major labels revitalizing their jazz catalogs. Industry veteran Mel Fuhrman acquired tapes of unreleased music by jazz great Duke Ellington and began issuing a series of 10 CD's. Some of the best-s...

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... and of been proud of who they are and where they came from. Bibliography: - "Civil War" Gloriel Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. CD Room. Gloriel Electronic Publishing inc. - "Free Verse" Gloriel Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. CD Room. Gloriel Electronic Publishing inc. - Jefferson. "Whitman Biography". Virginia: ( N:E). Online. 20 January 2000. 29 pages. - Kunitz, Stanley ... J., Howard Haycraft. American Authors 1600-1900. A Biographical dictionary of American Literature. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company. 1938. P. 801- 810. - "Romanticism". Encarta Encyclopedia. 1998 ed. CD Room...

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... software. The majority of copying and fraud involve software, like CDs, tapes, and computer programs, but there also is a huge market for clothing items like jeans, shirts, and sunglasses. Roth 2 CD piracy is currently the fastest-growing counterfeiting threat, with China and Bulgaria suspected as the largest of the counterfeiters, according to Mike Edwards of the International Federation of the Phonographic ... use O. J. in connection with orange juice." Simpson wants to control the use of his initials on about 50 products from apparel to toys. (Wells 1) Logos and products can sometime...

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... been consumed in a multitude of ways. The consumption of popular music may entail purchasing recorded music on vinyl, cassette tape, or compact disc (CD); listening to the radio; watching music videos on television channels, such as MTV; home tape/CD recording; and more recently, downloading music from the Internet. Simultaneously, people may read the music press, go clubbing, or see bands perform ... ...

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... prove they didn't belong on the list. A federal appeals court upheld the decision. (USA) Lawyers for two offenders argue the Internet list has a stigmatizing effect. In California, the state issued a CD-ROM that listed the names and addresses of offenders but in that case there is a charge for obtaining the information. By assigning a cost to the information, California is making it ... ." (Internet) Sex offenders have become the target of vigilantes as a direct result of Megan's Law. For instance a van owned by a convicted child molester near Los Angeles was firebombed after the CD-ROM ...

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... with the weekend newspapers. However, Radio Drama has enjoyed a brief resurgence in the consumer market due, for the most part, to the BBC collection of Radio 4 productions being released on CD and cassette, with new titles being added to the catalogue on a fairly regular basis, be they classics from years past or recent radio plays that nobody ever new about until ... off ideas, but slowly branching to new ideas) that are scripted, produced, performed and are in all ways indistinguishable from that style of Radio Drama, but are released directly to CD where they reach a wider audience ...

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... to a learner's innate, habitual, and preferred ways of absorbing, processing and retaining information or skills. Interactive audio with the addition of audio capabilities to personal computers via audio boards or CD-ROM with microphones for input and headphones for output, the audio-assisted computer is a virtual mini-media unit. With the hookup of a special tape recorder to the computer, interactive audio ... these latter options are available on an interactive compact disc program. Given that language is an expression of culture, cultural aspects of the video segments can be highligh...

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... of $8 million in punitive damages. The Westboro Baptist Church challenged this verdict as "grossly excessive " and sought judgment as a matter of law on the grounds that the first Amendment fully protected its speech. The District Court reduced the punitive damages awarded but otherwise left the rest of the verdict intact. Westboro moved for summary judgment and an appeal contending that the ... First Amendment protected the Church's speech from tort liability. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the original verdict on all claims, finding that the Westboro Baptist ...

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... points out, "with the rising education level and the influence of the American with Disabilities Act, disabled people will be entering the workforce in increasing numbers" (1999, p. 314). To be protected by the ADA, one must have a disability, or have a relationship or association with an individual with a disability. An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who ... . Drug addiction is considered a disability under the ADA. The base for that conclusion is that drug addiction is a substantially limiting impairment. Those who are currently using illegal drugs are n...

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... members because of their race, color, sex, religion, or national origin (Fisher 427)." While most discrimination cases do involve women it is important to realize that men and women are protected equally. Sexual stereotyping is often a problem when talking about gender differences. Some employers assume women only act "feminine" or assign them to "feminine" jobs. This often results in ... problems because employers think a woman is not aggressive or a woman gets in trouble for being aggressive. Women in the workplace are also protected under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, whic...

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... aquarium hobbyists live in the United States. Since the United States bans harvesting of coral in its own waters, most of the supply comes from loosely protected reefs in poorer countries. Currently Mozambique, an African nation, has banned any export on fish or corals for aquarium use until 2001. This freeze up ... 300 parks that include coral reefs as natural habitats in the world. The problem is that less that 30% of the designated areas are fully protected. These type of protection plans are going on world wide, and are having great success. If we can only protect the reefs more close...

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... by statute or by the constitution. This was clear in 1964 when the Supreme Court of Canada decided Regina v Sikyea. At issue were treaty protected hunting rights, on the one hand, and the Migratory Birds Convention Act, a federal statute, on the other. In a judgment which is now ... nothing. Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of Justice on Indian constitutional issues, was asked what rights he thought were protected by section 35. The question was put at a Ministerial level meeting held in preparation for one of the First Minister's Conferences on aboriginal c...

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... are non-enveloped and their size ranges from 22 to 30nm in diameter, and they lack the presence of a lipid membrane (9). Poliovirus is protected from detergents, organic solvents, and acidic conditions by its capsid. It is important to understand the genome of the poliovirus to help with research in ... are non-enveloped and their size ranges from 22 to 30nm in diameter, and they lack the presence of a lipid membrane (9). Poliovirus is protected from detergents, organic solvents, and acidic conditions by its capsid. It is important to understand the genome of the poliovirus to help with...

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... linked to Usama Bin Laden, a former Saudi Arabian National whose excessive bank accounts fund a worldwide terrorist operation. Further investigation revealed that Bin Laden was living in Afghanistan in a camp protected by his own 200-man private army and a sub-unit of the Taliban, a quasi-religious organization operating within Afghanistan's borders. The United States, backed by other nations who have ... the United States of America. Worldwide intelligence networks have been attempting to maintain constant surveillance of him in order to help deter further acts. However, he is still f...

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... speech having even the slightest redeeming social importance, "even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion"#, however, obscene material does not contain this social importance and is therefore not protected by the Constitution. In light of this decision, the Supreme Court found it then necessary to define "obscenity" and to distinguish it from the portrayal of sex. This distinction drawn ... referred to simple, private possession of such materials. However, as Justice Marshall states in the opinion of the Stanley case, "Roth does declare, seemingly without qualification, tha...

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... the Three Fifths Compromise in which they were allowed to count five slaves as three free men. "[ ] slavery, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the constitution (qtd in Ferris 9)". The northern delegates were afraid that any attempt they made to abolish slavery would have caused the ... hundreds, but in the new constitution it was still legal because all of the Northern and Southern delegates had signed the new constitution. "The constitution protected existing slaves but envisaged the ending of the slave trade by 1808 (Barker 43)". The Northern sh...

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... were to design the exams to be free of any racial bias in order to avoid any potential implications concerning disparate impact on a protected minority group. This was important to the city because of the large protected population of protected minority groups (nearly 60% of the population are either African American or Hispanic) that live in the city. Unfortunately the city of New ... ...

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... do have one vital, key player on their side, the U.S. Government. Although to some it may seem like it is not that big of a deal, Arab-Americans are being very protected by the U.S.A. In fact, many high positioned members of office are absolutely against racial acts of aggression towards Arabs and Muslims. Merely a couple days after the September 11th attacks, the ... and stress, despite the fact that several people of Arab and Muslim descent have been picked up by the FBI. However, in my opinion, civil rights are being way more protected than they were in the 1940's. Today, you do not ...

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... federal power inhered principally in the workings of the National Government itself, rather than in discrete limitations on the objects of federal authority. State sovereign interests, then, are more properly protected by procedural safeguards inherent in the structure of the federal system than by judicially created limitations on federal power (Mason, 178). For the last half century, the Court interpreted federalism ... married persons, concerning the intimacies of their physical relationship, even when not intended to produce offspring, are a form of "liberty" protected by the Due Pr...

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... of medical, financial, and legal records to create integrated profiles of use to commercial as well as law-enforcement interests. To what extent such virtual "papers and effects" should be protected from criminal trespass as well as against "unreasonable searches and seizures" by the government? How would protection against such invasion best be implemented? These are issues subject to considerable debate ... about the electronic availability of pornography and other morally questionable forms of information are additional considerations. (28) But even when the creation of personal data...

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... of medical, financial, and legal records to create integrated profiles of use to commercial as well as law-enforcement interests. To what extent such virtual "papers and effects" should be protected from criminal trespass as well as against "unreasonable searches and seizures" by the government? How would protection against such invasion best be implemented? These are issues subject to considerable debate ... about the electronic availability of pornography and other morally questionable forms of information are additional considerations. (28) But even when the creation of personal data...

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... establishment clause outlaws government prescription of religion. Because of this amendment the government cannot mandate forms of religious expression. You have the freedom to choose you religious preference. We are protected by the clause in the amendment by the principles of liberty, freedom of religious equality and separation of church and state. Not only has this amendment impacted society by free ... stop to question whether the First Amendment protects one's rights to create pornographic material (a million dollar business), or read and write whatever they so desire. Rather, sho...

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... and use force if necessary. After all, the United Nations was created, as Winston Churchill said, to make sure that the force of right will in the ultimate issue be protected by the right of force ("In the President's"). In conclusion, after many non-effective resolutions, the United Nations could not secure global or national security, leading to a decision by certain ... realist (United States, Great Britain, and Spain) to go to war with Iraq. As the boy could not be protected by his father, the United States, Great Britain, and Spain can not be protected by the United Nations. It too...

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