Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act ("The Card Act"), was supposed to protect consumers. Yet, credit card companies have found new ways to circumvent the law. Let us explore the fundamentals of credit scores and ways credit card companies seek to exploit consumer's trust with potential irreversible harm to their credit score.... Read More
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Topic: Business Law
Right of Privacy is an innate inherent right. Right of publicity, on the other hand, has to be acquired throughout one's lifetime by creating economic value value in one's name, likeness or image. Such distinction does not end here. Let us further shed light on this interesting topic.... Read More
Posted at 19:27 PM | PERMALINK
Topic:
Entertainment Law
Real estate brokers, generally, might be found liable on contract or tort basis. A broker is found liable on contractual basis for not specifically complying with provisions of the stated contract. Broker is found liable on tort grounds for running afoul of statute or common law. One of the most frequent tortious grounds is fraud. Fraud could be intentional or negligent. Let us explore this important subject matter further.... Read More
Posted at 19:38 PM | PERMALINK
Topic: Real Estate
Clearing world rights of an underlying source for translation, adaptation or republication is invariably a cumbersome complicated lengthy process. Clearing rights serves a very important purpose in entertainment transactions, as such rights supplant and serve as future sources of income. Hence, it behooves entertainment participants to ascertain their salience and take methodical proper steps to implement them.... Read More
Posted at 21:04 PM | PERMALINK
Topic: Entertainment Law
Often, businesses have information they would not and should not share with others. Such information could take the form of ideas, methods, devices, formulas, compilations, among other things. Let us explore what could work and what would not work in protecting a business' trade secrets.... Read More
Posted at 20:08 PM | PERMALINK
Topic:
Business Law