Week 8 EOC: Questions

1.      What is the difference between a Provisional Patent Application and a                         Non-provisional Patent Application (Regular Patent)? 

2.      Are downloaded works over peer-to-peer networks violating Copyright law?

3.      How "original" does my work have to be to merit copyright protection?

4.      How do I know if I can protect my business information as a trade secret?

5.      How can I prove that there has been an infringement on my copyright?

6.      Are there any legal problems with using a specific product in my film?

7.      If I show my character watching TV, do I have to get permission to show whatever is on the screen?
8.      If I use fake guns in a public place am I legally obligated to inform the local police?
9.      Should I be concerned about filming a famous building? 

10.  I’m shooting my film in another state. Do I need to set up a limited liability company (LLC) in that state? 

WEEK 7 EOC: LAWYERS

 

Anthony Ciulla

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              720 S. Fourth Street
Suite 300
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Phone: 702-382-6911

Shemilly A. Briscoe

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              1060 Wigwam Parkway
Henderson, NV 89074

Phone: 702-944-9781

Melissa L. Waite

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              3800 Howard Hughes Parkway
Suite 1600
Las Vegas, NV 89169

Phone: (702) 699-7500

Gordon E. Bywater

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              3636 N. Rancho Dr.
Las Vegas, NV 89130

Phone: 702-656-2355

Dimitri P. Dalacas

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              3275 S. Jones Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89146

Phone: 702-307-9500

Christopher R. McCullough

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              601 S. Rancho Dr.
Suite A-10
Las Vegas, NV 89106

Phone: 702-385-7383

Airene Williamson

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              1060 Wigwam Parkway
Henderson, NV 89074

Phone: 702-823-3311

Neil E. Colmenares

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              6149 S. Rainbow Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89118

Phone:702-629-6666

John P. Aldrich

Area of Law: Small Business Law and Litigation

Location:              1601 S. Rainbow Blvd.
Suite 160
Las Vegas, NV 89146

Phone: 702-853-5490

Pamela Gavin

Location:            500 Gaskins Road,Suite B, Richmond, VA, 23238    

Phone: 804-784-4427

WEEK 6 EOC: Supreme Court Prayer

Our topic today comes to us from Greece, New York, where town meetings have been opened with Prayer for well over a decade. It became an issue when two attendee’s, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, thought “They should not have to be subjected to sectarian prayers.”

Now, personally, I agree with them. There is no possible way to make a prayer, vocally, to an audience of all different faiths and religions, that will NOT offend someone. An easier method which would allow each and every one to have their own moment to pray, or not to pray, would be a “moment of silence”. Which the town had in place up until 1999. When they started to allow prayer.

Just recently I was asked to stand while a college read a prayer, I’m told it was the same prayer brought up in this topic. Several others refused to stand, and personally I felt extremely awkward while standing, as I am agnostic. I don’t formally recognize any faith as my own, yet I stood to avoid drawing attention. In the back of my mind I was a bit upset. Why should I have to be subjected to this? My faith might not even be the same as the speaker. How does he feel knowing that there are some in his audience that don’t believe him? Later we were told the “Why” to his prayer, and then I was more understanding, but that doesn’t change the fact that I was surprised it happened at all.

Of course, the first amendment, freedom of speech, as well as freedom of religion, could be used to defend the prayers. However, with how much the country has changed in the 200 years since its establishment, should we really use prayer in a public setting outside of designated area’s such as a church?

An interesting quote I found from Douglass Laycock, a defendant of the prayers, was

"Well, if devil worshippers believe the devil is the almighty, they might be OK with it,"

I suppose that’s true enough, but what of Atheists, Agnostics, or even Jedi? Whom seemingly have no rights to preach their religion?

With all these factors in mind, it seems the justices of the supreme court are unmoved, as reported from NBC, “It seemed certain, after courtroom arguments in a case brought by two women from upstate New York, that the justices had no interest in eliminating prayer at government meetings.”