Dear luminox17-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.
Because of the recent and still evolving nature (and in some cases
ongoing nature) of the scandals involving Enron and Worldcom and the
alleged scandal supposedly involving Ms. Stewart, I highly recommend
you choose another topic unless you just want to really challenge
yourself with this assignment. The final shoe with regard to the Enron
and Worldcom debacles has yet to drop since legislation is still being
demanded in many judicial circles to prevent future oversights and
insure appropriate satisfaction if they should reoccur. As for Martha
Stewart’s troubles of course, the case is really in it’s infancy in
terms of what impact it might have on consumer protection in the
future. There are of course no case summaries on cases that have not
been heard so to use her legal situation as one of your examples would
limit you to speculation at best.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and take you up on the “suggestion”
route you alternatively alluded to. I recommend you choose a topic for
which a great deal of rulings exist and spare yourself the effort of
drudging up data where data might not exist. There are a number of
topics that fit this description and for which an abundance of
information is readily available in publication and on the internet.
Below for example I have chosen issues related to copyright law.
As you know copyright laws are being hotly debated and while the issue
is still current, legal precedents are being set daily. If your
readers don’t know what’s going on in this legal arena they're truly
living in caves somewhere on remote islands. The far reaching impact
is a closely scored game in progress and plays out like a legal soap
opera with millions of interested viewers glued to their screens just
to see what’s happening next. Unlike Enron and Worldcom what happens
here is much more "real" to common folks and will eventually touch us
all in some form or another. Your legal paper can be brilliantly
written piece and at the same time be a practical topic that all your
readers can relate to. Here are some wonderful resources that can
provide you with more information than you’d probably ever require for
compiling a 2500 word term paper on the subject, not to mention what
is available in abundance in print in the form of current event media
publications and law books:
WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leading_legal_cases_in_copyright_law
LAW.COM – BRIEFING PAPERS
http://www.law.com/lawfirmcentral/papers/cgi-bin/ljx_mulfulltext.cgi
CORNELL LAW SCHOOL - SELECTED COPYRIGHT DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/copyrt.htm
UNITED STATE COPYRIGHT OFFICE
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (RIAA)
http://www.riaa.com/
FINDLAW PROFESSIONALS
http://profs.lp.findlaw.com/copyright/
BITLAW – WEB SITES AND LEGAL ISSUES
http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND TECHNOLOGY: COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS, &
PATENTS
http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm
UCLA ONLINE
THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (brief summary)
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (full text)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
AACE DIGITAL LIBRARY – 32 DIFERENT COPYRIGHT ARTICLES
http://www.aace.org/dl/index.cfm?fuseaction=SearchResults&searchval=COPYRIGHT&authors=&yearafter=&yearbefore=&sortby=&b1=Search&CFID=415018&CFTOKEN=31801958
As you can clearly see, the direction you take your term paper can be
virtually endless. Copyright laws have been around a long time and
have quite a historical past. In more recent times of course this
issue has been expanded to electronic media, ownership, and fair
usage, but more infamously are the hotbed topics being debated as we
speak with regard to entities like Napster, the music industry, and
activities such as trade, dissemination and royalties.
You may choose to take your paper in the direction of how copyrights
once primarily protected the works of notable authors against lurking
literary thieves seeking to exploit their creativity and purloin their
precious words in an effort to get rich themselves, to how greedy,
multi-billion dollar, powerhouse industries are now suing children and
grandmothers over their unauthorized use of their $12 CD’s and the
unauthorized display of their company logos.
Likewise, should you choose a different approach, there is ample
information out there to support a paper on the evolution of
copyrights and how in so many years it has grown from a simplified
means of protecting ones literary rights to a confounding
conglomeration of complicated laws aimed at protecting the rights of
everything from written words to crafted images to web pages
on-the-fly. It might be interesting to challenge your readers and
speculate what the future holds for the copyright as well, since
clearly, Mark Twain could never have predicted what we are seeing
today, neither can we envision our own future and what it will hold
for these laws tomorrow.
Here are some other topics of business law for which an abundance of
information can also be found. Any once of these can be equally
substituted for the one I mentioned above and leave you with a lot
less research than the recent corporate scandals will surely require:
WIKIPEDIA - LIST OF BUSINESS LAW TOPICS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_business_law_topics
Adhesion contract
Agency
Blue law
Civil law notary
Contracts
Consideration
Duress
Breach of contract
Remedy
Lien
Corporate law
Commercial entity
Corporation
Partnership
Charitable trust
Class action
Cyber law
Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
Dispute resolution
Alternative dispute resolution
Mediation
Conciliation
Negotiation
Arbitration
Binding arbitration
Employment law
Labor law
Sexual harassment
Non-disclosure agreement
Escrow
Fiduciary duty
Industrial design rights
Intellectual property
Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights
Public domain
Trade secret
Patent
Trademark
Fair dealing
Software piracy
International trade law
Law and economics
Land use
Malpractice
Notary public
Property law
Real property
Product liability
Negligence
Proximate cause
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
Release
Tax law
Torts
Trusts and Estates
Uniform Commercial Code
I cannot write your paper for you of course but should you choose one
of these topics as opposed to the one I showed you in my example, I’ll
gladly help you find similar links to resources related to that topic
as well.
Below you will find that I have carefully defined my search strategy
for you in the event that you need to search for more information. By
following the same type of searches that I did you may be able to
enhance the research I have provided even further. I hope you find
that that my research exceeds your expectations. If you have any
questions about my research please post a clarification request prior
to rating the answer. Otherwise, I welcome your rating and your final
comments and I look forward to working with you again in the near
future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.
Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga
USEFUL LEGAL SOURCES
CORNELL LAW SCHOOL
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
LAW.COM – SEARCH BRIEFING PAPERS
http://www.law.com/lawfirmcentral/papers/
VERDICT SEARCH (requires subscription)
http://www.verdictsearch.com/
FINDLAW (researchers use this regularly)
http://www.findlaw.com/
WIKIPEDIA - LIST OF BUSINESS LAW TOPICS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_business_law_topics
INFORMATION SOURCES
WIKIPEDIA – COPYRIGHT LAW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leading_legal_cases_in_copyright_law
LAW.COM – BRIEFING PAPERS
http://www.law.com/lawfirmcentral/papers/cgi-bin/ljx_mulfulltext.cgi
CORNELL LAW SCHOOL - SELECTED COPYRIGHT DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/copyrt.htm
UNITED STATE COPYRIGHT OFFICE
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (RIAA)
http://www.riaa.com/
FINDLAW PROFESSIONALS
http://profs.lp.findlaw.com/copyright/
BITLAW – WEB SITES AND LEGAL ISSUES
http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND TECHNOLOGY: COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS, &
PATENTS
http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm
UCLA ONLINE
THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (brief summary)
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (full text)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
AACE DIGITAL LIBRARY – 32 DIFERENT COPYRIGHT ARTICLES
http://www.aace.org/dl/index.cfm?fuseaction=SearchResults&searchval=COPYRIGHT&authors=&yearafter=&yearbefore=&sortby=&b1=Search&CFID=415018&CFTOKEN=31801958
SEARCH STRATEGY
SEARCH ENGINE USED:
Google ://www.google.com
SEARCH TERMS USED:
LEGAL CASES IN COPYRIGHT LAW
DECISIONS COPYRIGHT LAW
SUPREME COURT COPYRIGHT
LEGAL RESOURCES
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