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Intentional Torts

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Private Parties sue for money

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Legal Elements of Intentional Torts

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Intent to act ( doesnt mean hurt) + damages/actual harm

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General Intentional Torts

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Assault
Battery
False Imprisonment
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Defamation

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Assault

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Threat of intent, immediate harmful contact ( flinching)

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Battery

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Intentional Harmful Contact ( punching, cigarete smoke) also applies to attached belongings

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False Imprisonment

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Intentional Restraint or confiement without justification.
Has to be- Physical Barrier, Physical Restraint, Threat of Immediate force/harm( not future harm/force)

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Shoplifters Rule/Exception

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Reasonable Duration + manner ( why stores dont really stop you for stealing anymore)

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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

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Hard to Prove

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Defamation

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Intentional Lie about harming reputations
Intentional Statement of fact ( true or false) + publish ( communicate to third party) + damaged reputation ( lose money/reputation)
Examples ; Libel and Slander

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Public Figure Exception

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Intentional Fact + publish + damaged reputation + malice ( has to know it was a lie)
Mcklee vs Laurion

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Mcklee vs Laurion

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Doctor very rude to patients and then the patient wrote bad reviews causing the doctor to sue ( the patient won since truth always wins)

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Intentional Business Torts

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Fraud
Wrongful Interference with a contract
Wrongful interference with a business opportunity

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Fraud

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Intentional use of deceit for gain
Material Representation ( omission) + justified reliance+ damages + causal connection

Example
Buying a used car, asked if in accident and the seller lied

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Wrongful Interference Contract

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Valid Contract + knew a valid contract existed + interference induced a breach of contract
Example- normally a merger

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Wrongful Business Opportunity

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Taking a client lists from a previous work company

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Negligence

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Failure to use reasonable care to prevent
reasonable care

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Elements of Negligence

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Duty of care ( can get specific)
Breach of care
Cause in fact
Proximate Cause
Damages

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Duty of Care

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Weirum v RKO
Special Duties
Heightened Duties
Lessend Duties

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Weirum V RKO

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Radio Host made a special where you get money from following a van ( teenagers run a grandma off the road killing her)

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Special Duties

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Business Owners Duty to discover/remove damages

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Heightened Duties

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Duties for Certain Jobs
Doctors+ Lawyers+ Accountants + Engineering + Architects

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Lessend Duties

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Assumption of Risk
Taylor v BB Club of Seattle

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Taylor v BB CLub of Seattle

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At a mariners game someone got hit by the ball in the front row since they were not paying attention

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Proximate Cause

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Close to Location

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Cyr v Alabama

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Serial Rapists kills someone at hotel bar; family sues the hotel but lost since you cannot foresee that

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Defenses to Intentional Torts

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Discipline ( parents)+ Necessity ( need to do) + duress ( gun to head) + Consent ( informed consent, agree in advance + full knowledge of risk)

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Lugenbuhl v Dowling ( informed consent)

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Hernia mesh was not put into place by doctor even though it was agreed on before hand

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Defenses to Negligence

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Failure to meet “ burden of proof” ( 50.1%)
Comparative Negligence
Contributory Negligence

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Comparative Negligence

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Comparing to who is at fault by more negligence ( most states)

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Contributory Negligence

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Protects against Frivlous Lawsuits ; if in accident cannot sue

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Damages

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Compensatory Damages ( make me whole)
Punitive Damages ( punish so gross)

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32
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Ford v Stubblefield (1984)

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Ford Design problem that is very easy to fix but didnt do ( causing cars to explode killing lots)

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Special Tort Doctrines

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Res Ipsa Loquitar ( speaks for themselves)
Good Samaritan Laws
Social Host / Dram Shop Laws
Strict Liability

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Res Ipsa Loquitar

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Flips Burden Of Proof
Normally procsecutor proves innocent but now defender has to prove there were innocent

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Good Samaritan Laws

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Trying to be helpful can not be sued

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Social Host/ Dram Shops

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Bar is available for liability if over served ( getting someone drunk and then letting them drive)

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Strict Liability

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Intrinsically Dangerous Behaviors ( you will always be liable)
Nuclear Power Plant, Testing Weapons , Quarry Blasting

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Criminal Law Burden of Proof

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Guilt beyond reasonable doubt 99.5%

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39
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Elements of Crime

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Actus Reus ( bad act)+ Mens Rea ( criminal mindset)

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40
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3 sets of crime with no Mens Rea

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Criminal Recklessness ( DUI, Aggravated Manslaughter)
Criminal Negligence ( involuntary manslaughter)
Strict Liability ( statutory rape : doenst matter always at fault )

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41
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Felony v Misdeamnor

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If more than 1 year its a felony

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42
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Categories of Crime

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Violent Crime
Property Crime
Public Order Crime
White Collar Crime
Corporate Crime

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Violent Crime

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Murder, Rape, sexual assault, robbery ( taking with violence), Assault & Battery

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44
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Property Crimes

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Arson, Burglary, Forgery ( changing outcomes) , Larceny ( taking in daytime), Theft by Fraud ( using deceit for profit)

45
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Wisconsin v Steffes ( theft by fraud)

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Drug Dealer in jaul wants to continue dealing uses fake phone numbers stealing $30000

46
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Public Order Crime ( Relative)

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Public Drunkness + Prostitution+ Gambling + Narcotics

47
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White Collar Crime

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Mail & Wire Fraud, Bribery ( to public), Kickback ( private to private), Money Laundering ( Dirty Money), Embezzlement ( takes money from company)

48
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People v Sisophon

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Stole Money from a car salesman; realized his mistake tried turning it in the next day and was arrested

49
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Corporate Crime

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Government Seeks Fines + Deferred prosecution agreement (if good throws case out) or Non prosecution Agreement ( unenforceable)

50
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Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizational Acts ( RICO)

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Killed the mafia
1) Any person
2) Participates in a criminal enterprise
3) Commiting 2 or more offenses
4) Inside a 10 year period
All these equal to 20 years + lose profits

51
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Criminal Defenses

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1) Failure to Meet Burden of Proof
2) Self Defense
3) Insanity
4) Necessity
5) Duress
6) Statue of Limitations
7) Mistake of Fact
8) Entrapement

52
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Self Defense

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Duty to retreat ( have to run if can)
Castle Doctrine ( home+yard+workplace)
Stand your ground ( anyplace)

53
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Insanity

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Mental Illness or Cognitive Repairment
a) M’Nagnen Rule ( did not know it was wrong)
b)Irresistable Impulse Test ( refrain from acting)
c) Substantial Capacity Test ( virginia + fed) combines the previous 2

54
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Entrapment

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Gov’t Suggests + inducement ( would not happen if this didnt happen)

55
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Procedural Safeguard

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1) 5th + 6th = right to remain silent, jury stuff
2) 8th= no excessive bail, no cruel/punishment
3) Miranda Rights
4) 4th ( 1-3 stronger than this one)

56
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Miranda Rights

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Custodial Interrogation ( if you feel free to leave you can)

57
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Miranda v Arizona

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Rape Victim uneducated did not get informed about the rights he had

58
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4th Amendment

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General Warrant ( not specific )
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy , needs Probable Cause + Warrant + specificity

59
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Exclusions to the Safe Guard

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Consent
Hot Pursuit ( running gives away)
Search Incident to a lawful arrest
Plain View
Automobile Exception
Stop& Frisk
Domestic Terrorism

60
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U.S v Ross

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Automobile exception
Ross drug dealer had bullet casing out allowing the cop to search his car for drugs

61
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Terry v Ohio

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Racial Profiling
Undercover cops stops 3 random people “casing” a store and finds guns ( reasonable suspicion)

62
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Domestic Terrorism

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USA Patriot Act
Making the government to do everything

63
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Trademark

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” mark of trade”
A distinctive word, symbol, sound or design that identifies the source of goods

64
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Brand Confusion

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” Old person test”
Coca Kola vs Koke of America ( 1920)

65
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Distinctiveness

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1) Fanciful ( xeorox) ( always)
2) Arbitrary ( apple + google) (always) ( putting random things together)
3) Suggestive (always) ( Microsoft) ( small software)
4)Descriptive ( sometimes ) ( not distinct unless secondary meaning)
5) Generic ( to generic wherever everyone called it by the name losing it) (never)

66
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Creating a trademark

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Use + duration of use , stronger brands do not need to register under USPTO

67
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Trademark Infringement

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Lanham Act
Unauthorized use + likelihood of customer confusion

68
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Brothers Records v Jardine

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Beach Boys member who left still sold ticekts as the beach boys

69
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Remedies for Infringement

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Injunction ( court order)+ Damages( how much beach boys lost) + Profits ( how much jardine got) + Destruction ( burn the clothes)

70
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Trademark Dilution

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TM Dilution Revision Act
- New TM dilutes distinctiveness
- Mark creates false association
-Harms famous TM reputaion

71
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Starbucks v Lundberg

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Sambucks Coffee, name dilutes around the ‘bucks’

72
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Counterfeiting

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Unauthorized use of trademark for making confusion
- 2 million fine, 10 years prison, profits, and destruction

73
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TM Sub categories

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Service Mark ( super cuts)
Certification Mark ( quality of goods)
Trade Dress ( packaging, store layouts, product shape)

74
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Patents

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Inventor’s exclusive rights to use+ sell+ market invention for 20 years

75
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Requirements

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Patentable ( use, novel, non obvious)

76
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Non Obvious

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Barnes & Nobel v Amazon ( barne and nobel using the one click purchasing)

77
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Remedies of Patents

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Injunction, Damages, Destruction, Attorny Fees, WIllful Infringement ( if proven triple damages)

78
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Copyright

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” the right to copy”
Author of artistic creation sole right: copy+ distribute+ display + derive

79
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Duration of Copyright

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Life of author + 70 years
Corporations -95 years

80
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Copyright Infringment

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Inhale Inc v Starbuzz Tobacco ( deals with hookah that was created and court ruled against)
MGM v Grokster ( preceptor to napster) allowed for the host to be charged with the crime

81
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Remedies for Copyright

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Injunction+ actual damages+ statutory damages ( 150k)
Willful Infringement ( privacy) 250k + 5 years

82
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Fair Use Doctrine

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1) Criticism
2) Teaching
3) News
4) Scholarships
5) Satire ( condemn society)
6) Parody ( funny laugh)

83
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Tests for Copyrights

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Just need one good one
1) Purpose & Character Use
2) Nature of Work
3)Amount Copied
4)Market Effect

84
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International IP Protections

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TRIPS agreement (50/50)
Madrid Protocal (very succesful)
Anti Counterfeit Trade Agreement ( bad)
Burn Convention- copyright ( like madrid so good)

85
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Golan v Holder

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Guitar player song is inside a movie first and then it gets protected

86
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Sole Propiertorship

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Never Use because unlimited liability

87
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Quality Trucks & Car leasing inc v Sark

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Sark sole business borrowed money and then had to sell house to pay it off

88
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Franchise

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” time sharer”
IP owner + intergrated business system( meaning supply chain , marketing campaign

89
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Franchise Contract

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Fee + Supplier Rules + Marketing % + Overhead % + Quality Control Upgrades + Territories

90
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Goodfaith Case

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Holiday Inn v Hotel Assocaties ( local hotel turns into holiday inn and puts upgrades for future contract but holiday leaves him)

91
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Partnerships

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Agreement for 2 or more people; sharing profits, loss, pass through taxation, joint owners/managers, power to disassociate+ joint & several liability

92
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Safety Practices of Partnerships

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Articles of Partnerships + Fiduciary Duties ( duty of loyalty, duty of care)

93
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Different Partnerships

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Limited Partnership ( general partner: limited partner silent)
Limited Liability Partnership ( LLP)

94
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Limited Liability Company

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Limited Liability, Forms by Articles of Organizational ( state filling), operating agreement

95
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Mekonen v Zewdu

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Zewdu is in a taxi llc and wanted to leave but did not give the decal and have to give back

96
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Types of Corporation

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S-Corp
C- Corp

97
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Formation of Corps

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Needs incorporator, filed articles of incorporation, pays incorporation fee, and franchise tax

98
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Governance of Corps

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Meetings+ Minutes + Vote (to approve) + Quorum

99
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Management

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Shareholders
Board of Directors
Officers

100
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Pros and Cons

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Pros - Limited Liabilities, Ease of funds, Corporate Personhood
Cons- C Corp Double taxation, hard formalities

101
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Veil Piercing

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Ignored Corporate Formalities then got sued,
Alter Ego Doctrine

102
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Alter Ego Doctrine

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If you do not properly put on the suit of a corporate entity than you are done for
Dog House Investment v Teal Properties Inc

103
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Dog House Investment v Teal Properties Inc

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Dog Kennel places sues teal properties but the corporation is a sham for many reasons but the main one is the no seperation of bank accounts

104
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How to Sue Corporations

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If breaches duty of care or loyalty

105
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Duty of Care

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Informed & Deliberate
Smith v Van Gorken

106
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Smith v Van Gorken

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Trans Road Merger was not informed or deliberate from the CEO so he got sued and than had to pay out of his own pocket book

107
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Duty of Loyalty

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Cannot take corporate money and give to self ( self dealing)
Bayer v Beran

108
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Bayer v Beran

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CEO hired his wife to sing but she was legit ( suing failed)

109
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Agreement of Indeminty

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CEO has insurance in case of a lawsuit

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