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The Celebrity Behind the Brand International Protection of the Right of Publicity
Get PDFPart I of the article provides an overview of the right of publicity and its history. It presents the importance of this right, particularly for celebrities, and it focuses on the influence of the entertainment and sports industries in a global economy. Then, it analyzes the major differences in level of protection, scope and length, starting with the United States. Then it uses the standard in the United States and compares it with the protection offered in 22 selected jurisdictions based on a survey report by Kenyon & Kenyon titled Getting the Deal Through. Then, it addresses potential challenges to the current approach and the issues that arise from having different standards in every jurisdiction. Part II of the article provides a solution to the current issue. It proposes adopting a provision into the TRIPs Agreement.15 The last section of Part II analyzes the impact of this proposal in a global spectrum. Lastly, Part III addresses the potential criticisms of the proposal
The Challenges to Social Entrepreneurship in Brazilian Art/Handicraft Organizations: Today and in the Future
Get PDFThis is a case study of O Sol, a Brazilian art/handicraft social entrepreneurship cooperative that began over 50 years ago. O Sol produces authentic art/handcraft that is sold to tourists in Rio de Janeiro. The organization promotes human development and authentic Brazilian culture through the production and selling of art/handicrafts. However, today it is at risk economically, socially and culturally. To examine this case, students learn about social entrepreneurship, creating shared value and creating social value in tourism organizations as they examine the challenges of the globalization of authentic art tourism
Children\u27s Storytelling and Movement Behavior in Relation to Aggression, Affect States, Defense Mechanisms and Psychological Strengths and Vulnerabilities
No full textA psychoanalytically-informed study of aggression, including verbal and nonverbal behavioral manifestations, related affects and drives were examined herein. This archival study of 30 mother-child dyads was used to investigate the relationship of maternal reflective functioning (RF), defense mechanisms (DM) employed by children, in the context of storytelling and pretend play, as well as their movement patterns. Defense mechanisms of 17 girls and 13 boys (age M= 5.07, SD = .5) were assessed with the Defense Mechanisms Manual for Children\u27s Doll Play (Nimroody, Hoffman, Christian, & Rice, 2016). Children\u27s nonverbal behavior was observed and coded using variables of the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) (Kestenberg-Amighi J, Loman, Lewis, & Sossin, 1999). Specifically, elements from sub-systems of pre-efforts, efforts, shaping in directions, shaping in planes were utilized, as well as bound, free and neutral tension flow attributes, and growing and shrinking shape flow attributes. The Reflective Functioning Scale (Fonagy, Target, Steele, & Steele, 1998) was used to assess maternal RF and for the purposes of this study was dichotomously classified as either high or low. Two-way random absolute single measure Intraclass Coefficients were computed to assess interrater reliability, which was found to be fair, good or excellent (Cicchetti, 1994) for 23 out of 29 variables. Pearson coefficient correlations between RF, DMs and KMP variables revealed several significant findings, some of which confirmed findings of previous studies, as well as posed questions and one hypothesis at the outset of this study. Due to the exploratory nature of this study several findings were unanticipated and novel. Analyses revealed that high RF is negatively correlated with frequency and degree of aggression, Aggression Total (AggT) (r = -.423, p \u3c .020), Aggression Highest (AggH) (r = -.401, p \u3c .028), and Aggression against the Self (AggS) (r = -.416, p \u3c .022). Positive correlations were found between KMP elements (up and AggT, AggH, AggS; down and AggT, AggH, AggS; sum of Shaping in Directions and AggT, AggH, AggS), which point to an interesting relationship between uninhibited movements, indicative of willingness to interact and confront the task, and DMs. The implications of these and other finding, correspondences among maternal RF, children\u27s verbalized and embodied expressions of aggression and DMs will be discussed in this paper
The Efficacy of a Drama Therapy-Based Program in Enhancing Self-Perception of Social Skills, and School-Based Behaviors and Achievement
No full textThis study aimed to discover whether a drama therapy-based in-school intervention program, ENACT, was successful in promoting prosocial behaviors and decreasing problems behaviors over the course of one school year. Students were administered the 12-Item Grit Scale, Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scale, Morgan Jinks Student Self-Efficacy Scale, and a written version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition vocabulary subtest at both pre- and post-intervention. Results indicated that students who participated in the program did not evidence any significant changes in their perceptions of themselves, with the exception of their self-perceived talent. This implies that ENACT may not actually be targeting different constructs than those that they propose. Further studies should analyze more changes related to self-perceived talent, such as self-esteem
Drinking Water Protection and Agricultural Exceptionalism
Get PDFProviding safe drinking water is a basic responsibility of government. In the United States, local water utilities shoulder much of this burden, but federal drinking water law sets these utilities up to fail. The primary problem arises in the context of nonpoint source pollution, where federal drinking water law favors end-of-line clean up by water utilities over pollution prevention by farmers and other nonpoint source polluters. This system is both inefficient and unfair.
Although the Safe Drinking Water Act requires local utilities to provide safe water, it gives them few tools to engage in water pollution prevention and instead emphasizes water filtration and treatment. At the same time, the Clean Water Act, which regulates water pollution, broadly exempts much agricultural water contamination and other nonpoint source pollution from its strict permitting requirements. As a result of the interaction of these two statutes, water utilities are often the first line of defense against agricultural water contamination\u27s many human health harms. Allocating cleanup responsibility to water utilities rather than to polluters is inefficient because it prioritizes end-of-line clean up even where pollution prevention would be less expensive. It also fails to account for the ancillary benefits of pollution prevention, including, among other things, protection of aquatic habitats. This allocation of responsibility is inequitable not only because it has a disparate impact on low-income and minority communities, but also because it disadvantages communities whose drinking water sources are adjacent to farms relative to those whose drinking water sources are adjacent to polluters that are subject to the Clean Water Act\u27s permitting requirements. For the former set of communities, legal mechanisms to shift either costs or cleanup responsibility to farmers are extremely limited. To address these concerns, this Article calls for a suite of legal reforms that would shift the default from end of line cleanup to pollution prevention by empowering water utilities to adequately protect their source waters and by revoking the special status of farms in environmental law
Sensationalism in Modern Publishing: How Clickbait, Competition, and the Capitalization of Curiosity Disrupted an Industry.
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