Intellectual Property in Sports: Trademarks, Copyrights, and Publicity Rights
Intellectual Property in Sports: Key Legal Concepts
Trademarks and Service Marks
1. What is the legal term for a word, name, symbol, or device that an organization uses to identify and distinguish its services from the services of another organization and to indicate the source of the service?
Trademark Law
2. Which federal law provides trademark protections?
The Lanham Act
3. The mark NCAA, which stands for events and services related to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, is what type of mark?
Read MoreUnderstanding Customary Law: Types and Validity
Custom can simply be explained as those long-established practices or unwritten rules which have acquired binding or obligatory character. In ancient societies, custom was considered one of the most important sources of law; in fact, it was considered as the real source of law. With the passage of time and the advent of modern civilization, the importance of custom as a source of law diminished, and other sources, such as judicial precedents and legislation, gained importance.
There is no doubt about
Read MoreUnderstanding Constitutional Rights and Duties in Venezuela
Within this diversity, for the flourishing of tolerance and peace, it is important to understand different cultures, as each person has their way of expressing their individuality. In Venezuela, each region or state has a rich cultural, folk, and historical heritage. Through dance, you can see how each region expresses its individuality, yet each person plays his part as it feels in the depths of his being.
At this point, it is important to remember that in some cultures, the group is seen as more
Read MoreLegal Construction: Types and Standard Elements
Legal Construction
Legal construction is the intellectual process of determining which legal rule applies to a specific case. This reasoning involves analyzing and finding the specific rule relevant to each situation. It’s the process of identifying the applicable standard. This intellectual process, used by legal practitioners to determine if a rule of law applies to a given reality, is structured and organized by conceptual jurists.
Legal School Construction
Judicial Legal Construct
This is the construction
Liberal State Evolution: Rule of Law, Rights, and Power
Evolution of the Liberal State of Law
Item 5: Evolution of the liberal state of law toward the State.
The nineteenth century is often considered the century of the rule of law. Many authors argue that the revolutionary ideals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were realized during this time. However, this realization had qualifications, particularly in England, where the governance structure of public entities was altered. A position was adopted that coincided with economic development, claims
Read MoreCommercial Law: Origins, Sources, and Business Transactions
Concept of Common Law
Main origins founded in social and economic factors in the Middle Ages.
- Merchants started a new system of special rules that became custom, recorded in writings.
- There is a mutual relationship between the civil and the code of commerce, based on a general to special relationship.
Hierarchy of Sources of Law
Contained in the civil code, statutes, customs and PGD.
- The Law:
- Commercial code: body of regulations from XIX century, whose main value is to organise and unify all the concepts