EOC Week 9: First Amendment & the News

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.Originally, the First Amendment only applied to the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government.
In the movie there was one female justice and the rest were men. All the men justice’s were being sexist and not allowing the female justice to not have her say and have her opinion. Since the film that was in question was dirty it was a type of disrespect to the public and the communities in Nebraska and the community wanted the tape to be burned, and destroyed. I think it is only fair to be able to follow the first amendment as it currently stands. That is by respecting an establishment of religion, free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press.

EOC Week 8: Legal Questions

1. If my child was having a bad day and giving me a hard time and spanked him in public what would be the consequences as a parent?

2. What are your rights when an officer makes a traffic stop and requests a vehicle search when there are no probable cause or signs that you are doing anything wrong?

3. If I was to go into a Wal-Mart with $100 cash in my wallet and ended up shoplifting something, how would they treat the case if it was not my intent to steal to begin with?

4. I sell on eBay and there are buyers who make purchases and switch good parts for bad parts and claim that the item I sent them was DOA or NON FUNCTIONAL, what can happen to these buyers if they are caught or I have proof that the parts were swapped?

5. If someone stole my idea and I have all the digital media to prove it was my work, is this a possible case in court? Can I sue the company my stolen work was sold to?

6. A minor child was killed at the hands of the child’s mother. Child Protective Services were sent to the home several times prior to the child’s death to report child abuse against the now deceased victim. Would the father be able to sue child protective services for neglect to prevent this from happening and what would be his chance of winning the case?

7. If I create a fashion design and displayed it at a trade show , and someone took that design and sold it as their own, can I sue that party and what are my chances of recovering my design?

8. If I made a logo that had a had a trademark to one of the letters and another marketing company used that letter exactly how it is displayed/designed but used the letter in a logo but did not have the same complete logo then what could happen if I take legal action.

9. Can packaging look exactly the same as other products on a retail shelf (ex. Medicine products Color, Shape, Look). **EXCLUDES the name.

10. Can you sue a company that advertises a commercial which sells a product that has a disclaimer at the bottom but don’t give you enough time to read the disclaimer and it ends up affecting your life or puts you in burden?

EOC Week 7: What legal issues concern you most?

They are a ton of legal issues that concern me. There are many subjects that concern me because they are issues that affect myself or close family & friends. One of the biggest issues I have is stealing. I hate stealers and the intent and nature of what they do. When I say stealing, you probably are thinking of many ways how someone can steal. I am a design/web major and I have a big issue with people stealing my work. The work that I sweat and spend many hours on is so easy to steal on the world wide web. If it involves me designing an a design and someone else taking that design and making it better is considered stealing my work because I have already began the work for them and usually they steal it to edit and make money off. Another legal issue I have an issue with is sex crimes. There are a lot of nasty and sick people in this world and I feel that they should be separated from society and isolated in some sort of remote place where society is nowhere nearby. I am from San Diego where there is a lot of sex offenders and I am usually up to date with all the news and legal issues that are going on. For example the Chealsea King Case with John Gardner. I mean that guy is full of S*** and the way he laughed in an interview makes me angry and makes me just want me to punch him. These type of people prey on innocent girls that have bright futures and something should be done especially if they already have some type of history or background of this nature.

EOC Week 6: Illicit? What do you think?

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EOC Week 4: 10 of the Most Meaningful Patent Terms

1. Patent
2. Office Action
3. Licensing of an invention
4. Inventor
5. GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
6. Field of invention
7. Exclusive patent license
8. Electronic filing of patent applications
9. Design Patents
10.Date of Invention

EOC Week 3: Jeopardy

Jeopardy is a great game. It is the game for the smart and intelligent. I always watch the game on television and I feel that the questions that the players answer are always hard. I never realized that building the question and making sure the question is properly structured is a big issue. Making the question requires a thought process that equals to a “what is” answer. I found that using definitions that had more than one word in them such as “date of application” was sort of tricky and always read wrong after written. The game is always hard to build because you need to create an easy to hard environment such as one hundred dollar to a five hundred dollar question. Making sure the question is harder is a critical point of building a successful Jeopardy game. In the real game, it seems like the questions are super hard but for this educational purpose, I think this is a great way or learning definitions for our copyright, trademark, and patents class. I think making the game is hard, but it will pay off later when we actually take the test and are able to use the game as a reference for learning.

EOC Week 2: What do you think of lawyers?

I personally think lawyers are great people especially when it comes to money. It’s definitely a money gamble and money hungry type of game. There are tons of cases and situations out there that many of us know of and there are tons of cases out there that could have a potential case with lots of money on the table. I think it’s great how lawyers make their money and how they can jump the price of a settlement amount from point a to point b and be able to pay off their home. It’s also crazy how lawyers sometimes don’t make any money for years and spend years on a case and have to live at bare minimum and be able to support themselves plus pay large fees to get info and invest into a case. Personally, I would never be a lawyer because it’s kind of a gamble. It’s one of those professions that I think isn’t stable if you end up not being a good lawyer. I know for a fact that there are good lawyers and there are bad lawyers. I had a lawyer once represent me in a car accident case that was valued at six thousand dollars. Another lawyer that estimated my settlement at fourteen thousand dollars. With the difference in amounts, I was thinking “is this a good lawyer or a bad lawyer.” I went ahead and paid out the retainer fees for the 14k lawyer and he took 45% of my settlement which I did not read in the fine print. I then went to a contract lawyer to see if I could somehow reverse that contract, but it was my responsibility to know what I was signing. So in my sense, there are definitely shady lawyers who don’t release all the info verbally or who don’t let you understand it. They sometimes take advantage of their clients.

EOC Week 1: About Me

ABOUT ME

Hi my name is Ryan Fernandez, I am web designer who loves to make user friendly and out of the box websites. I was inspired into this business by making designs for entertainment companies who needed marketing material for print. I soon realized that marketing has more than graphical elements print so I decided to pursue web design as a business and a degree. The web design industry is a very competitive market and I feel my ideas and logic decisions play a big role in the industry. There are many people out there who do web design and make it a business or work for a company. Many of them have a degree or have lots of past experience to do this type of work. I feel that going to school and pursuing a degree, puts me in a better position and makes me an asset to a company. There are a lot of $500 web designers out there who build a web site from a template and edit and launch to the world wide web. I love building a website from scratch. I love branding a company and making sure there identity creates an image that fits there look and company. A custom website for any company is ideal instead of using those templates that everyone around the world uses is what everyone these days should be doing. I feel that there is no possible way to learn all the languages web design offers, but I feel that you should only learn them if you need to know them.