Week 11: Forced Choice

Sal Lopez-Estrada- did a very good job, I know he worked very hard on this and had everything pertaining to his major and what he wanted to really know legally.
Adam Mukaya- all his questions were about his major and what he was interested in. did a great job.
Christina Cassaro- I know I worked really hard on this project. And Pinto already told me I got an A :D
Lonnie Chester- he did a very good job on this. I hear him talk in class and I know he already has knowledge of this kind of stuff and has learned what risks he can or cant take in his field.
Stanley Nolan- researched and tried to find a lawyer but found one in a different field that helped her enough to post a very well educated final project.
Korsyca Ln Oya- well researched and put together for her program. Looks like she got a lot out of it.
Leslie Rodriguez-Delgado- did very well at putting the project together. Her questions go well with her major.
Vivian Diamond- she took a lot of time on this project, research everything, and has written a lot on her field and has given her own opinions on the matter.
Kristine Alberto- she did a good job at putting the project together and making her questions about her major.
John Zullo- has everything in place and did a very good job a using quotes and applying that to his major.
Joanne Fernandez- did a good job at finding quotes and interpreting them into her project.
Ryan Fernandez- asked good questions to the lawyer.
Cj Jones- did a good job but could have completed the questions from the book.
Kathrine Calesing- looked like she was disappointed in how the lawyer situation turned out. My lawyer said ‘depends’ a lot also.
Anne Klatski- tried a little bit but didn’t follow through with everything and I don’t really see how it went with her major.
Shantay Reaze- has some questions and written a little bit but did not complete.
Jake Crissmen- I think he wanted to do it, and has some of it completed but not the whole thing.
Stephen Armellino- did not complete the project at all

Week 11: Final Evaluation

During this class I have learned a lot on how to protect myself and my work that I am going to be producing more of. This class covered so much of the book that we bought and that book was just so useful and full of information to help me through the class and with the final project. Usually I would turn my books back in to the store for cash, but I think that it would be smart if I held onto the book for future reference. The first half of the quarter we learned about patents and how they work. We learned how to file for a patent, how long it takes, and how long you have the rights to that patent before other companies can start making that same type of product. It was very interesting to learn even though I know I will not be using patents really. In my field of graphic design I will be using a lot more of what we learned about for the second half of the quarter, which was trademarks and copyrights. I wrote my final project mainly on copyrights so that I know how to protect my work and not accidently take someone else’s work and get into trouble.

I like the way this class was set up and I liked the final project even though it was very frustrating at times. To go out into the real world, find a lawyer who will take some time to answer some questions of yours just as a person who happened to be a professional in his industry. I like the way that Pinto teaches not just this class, but his other classes too. I know how interesting his other classes can be so it was kind of hard getting used to so much of the text book but it was all good because Pinto made it interesting and gave us real life examples of law suits and cases that have happened in the past with major companies. I know I have learned so much from this class I have worked very hard in this class to complete everything that I could. I think that I deserve an A in this class.

EOC Week 10: Robert Kearns

Hollywood did a very good job at changing the entire emotional setting of the movie. Robert Kearns in the movie was shy almost and was all about his gadgets and wanted his kids to help him and learn what he knows. But in real life he was a miserable man and he lost everything because of this case. He spent around two decades on this case worked himself old to get thirty million dollars and still be lonely and old . he died of cancer in 2005 at the age of 77.

EOC Week 9:First Amendment and the News

i feel like the masque should not be built by ground zero in New York. i understand that it is a religious issue and they have the rights to. but it is just not right to build it so close. september 11 was only 9 years ago. that was not long ago it is still fresh in peoples minds and having this center so close is just not right. they say they are building it to bring people together, and they have already started out in a bad way. if they wanted to bring people in the community together they should have put it somewhere else and started out by going out into the public to see how everyone feels about having it in their community instead of just assuming that it will be okay to build this masque.

5. Your own argument and opinions.

Over the last few weeks in this class, I have worked very hard at completing this project. Calling lawyer after lawyer and getting extremely frustrated with most of them, then finally going to my main source for everything, my dad to help me out. He knows everyone and I knew he would have a lawyer to save the day. I should have went to him first but of course I wanted to do it on my own but in the end it all worked out. Even though I finally found a lawyer to help, he only wanted to help for a few minutes so I had to make the best of what I could with what I have. This class was very helpful and I will be holding on to the book for future review because I know I will be needing it with the designs and work that I will be producing.

4. Rule of law

I thought it was interesting that if I have a series of work I can save myself the trouble and money of copyrighting each one, and just copyright them all under one title. Although if someone wants to use and pay for my art work they can ask me to license one, two, or all of the series to them for their use only. If I find out that they are making money on my design, that is infringement and they have broken the law. As the artist there are exclusive copyright rights that I have access to such as “the entire bundle of rights that a copyright owner is exclusively entitled to exercise under the copyright laws. These rights consist of: the right to reproduce the work, the right to prepare derivative works, the right to distribute copies of the work, the right to perform the work, and the right to display the work.” (P, C, &T pg. 242)
If someone wants to use my design they much have an exclusive license, “which must be in writing, is a valid contract in which a copyright owner authorizes another person or entity to exclusively exercise one of more of the rights that belong to the copyright owner.” (P, C, &T pg. 242) This makes me happy knowing that I can protect everything that I do and control who wants my design and who I say is okay to use my design.

3. Reasoning of the Law

I wish I could have been able to talk with my lawyer a little bit more and really figure out all of my questions. He talked quite a bit about intellectual property which “refers to products of the human intellect that have commercial value that receive legal protection.” (P, C, &T pg. 4) This makes total sense as to why you would try and protect it because you want to make your own money, you don’t want someone else making money off of your idea. Plagiarism will happen, and it is only going to increase because of the internet and well frankly I feel like there aren’t too many things that someone hasn’t come up with already. Coming up with a new completely original design is very difficult, you must some how find out if what you are using has already been used in a different way or even in the same way.
“Copyrights are granted for original creative expressions produced by authors, composers, artist, designers, programmers, and similar creative individuals. Copyright law does not protect ideas ad facts, only the manner in which those ideas and facts express.” (P, C, &T pg. 5)
“Trademark law protects the rights of businesses who use distinctive names, designs, logos, slogans, or other signifiers to identify and distinguish their products and services.” (P, C, &T pg. 5)