Ethics

Here are four websites that can help you learn the differences between copyright, trademark, and patent. I also feel these websites provide current examples and definitions that can help people understand exactly what they are learning about. Name: Artsy Website: www.artsy.net What: entire website Why: I feel this resource would be a benefit because it keeps up to date with all the current legal action regarding copyright infringement and theft of art. I selected it because it was current cases that were dealing with current brand names and well-known artist that make their cases relevant to the world today. It also gives the in-depth reason why something can be considered infringement or theft. I also felt like the information would be interesting and could help people new to the issue to understand better what infringement and theft means in the art world. Name: Secure Your Trademark Website: https://secureyourtrademark.com/blog/71-notorious-patent-trademark-...

My interview was with a director of a law library for a large county. We discussed how the ethical situations are different for different kinds of libraries. Such as in the law library setting you must be careful not to give legal advice in any form and we are asked everyday what they believe they should do. Another issue that was brought up in another post was how they keep their patrons info confidential. However, at our library everyone must sign in and the sign in is left out all day. Also, we don’t really check any material out but when the lawyers do borrow something they write their info down on a piece of paper and just leave it on the desk. I feel like the list and leaving patron information out for people to see could be an ethical issue. Especially if someone is coming to get a protection order from someone and the spouse comes in and see that the other spouse has been there it could cause more harm. The biggest ethical issue that she mentioned was how we mus...

Merryman, John Henry., and Albert E. Elsen. Law, ethics, and the visual arts . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. 5th Edition             This book is an older book however, it covers the changes in the laws, copyright issues and cases that were the foundation of the laws that currently in place with regards to visual arts and copyright issues. It also speaks of some of the most prominent men and women that help contribute financially to make the progress within the government and laws to protect the arts. Especially one Texan many of us know Mr. Ross Perot. Reason 1: Several positive reviews from Amazon and other places. Ones positive review stated that “ Since its first edition in 1979, Law , Ethics and the Visual Arts established itself as the leading art law text among law professors, students, and practitioners. This new and newly illustrated, fifth edition, revised in collaboration wit...

Rebecca F. Ganz,A Portrait of the Artist's Estate as a Copyright Problem, 41 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 739 (2008). Available at: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol41/iss2/9                This article was written to explain how the definition of fair use is not current and needs to have some work done on the definition to be able to comply with the copyright laws. The main example or argument in this article is referencing how the heirs or families of the original artists are taking advantage of the system. It specifically speaks about how the grandson and the last living heir of James Joyce was abusing his power to keep his grandfathers work and his sister’s information from people being able to use. He would send threatening letters and demands that they stop using the information. He pushed it far enough that they ended up taking the case to court and Carol Loeb Shloss won the case and Stephen the grandson had...