Week 8 EOC: Bratz Brawl

When I was a young girl, I was very fond of my barbies, they were some of my favorite toys as a kid; I had so many barbies, it was ridiculous. I had totes full of barbie stuff and I still have barbies that are in their original boxes to this very day. I collected Barbies and it was actually a hobby of mine, to collect them and then keep them in the boxes, it was one of the hardest things I had to do because I kept myself from paying with them, so that one day they would be valuable. But, my thoughts on the Brats Brawl article is just as this; I feel that the people who built the barbie doll, have every right to say that the MGA Entertainment Inc stole their ideas and their models when they made the Bratz doll's. The barbie doll came out a long time ago, and way before the Bratz doll ever did. Not to mention the Brats doll looks a lot like the barbie doll, except some people say that the Bratz doll is more cuter than the barbie look. The Barbie look is more of the perfect model look, tall, blonde hair, thin. This article is stating the facts about the dispute over the ownership rights to the to the Bratz line of dolls, which I dont think there should be any dispute. To me, the MGA Entertainment totally took the creator of the barbie doll's ideas and look, everything. The glitzy Bratz girls were the first challengers to Barbie, whose sales began to soften as the Bratz doll's popularity increased. Barbie sales had dropped 30% from 2004, which was affected by the MGA's newer, hipper doll. By 2006, the Bratz doll had captured about 40% of the fashion doll market and posed as the biggest threat to Barbie since her debut in year 1959. I remember when the Bratz doll's came out and I never once thought they were anything like or compared to Barbie. In fact I thought the Bratz doll's were ugly.

Week 8 BOC: Progress In Getting A Lawyer

My progress in getting a lawyer is a pretty simple process, atleast for now it is. So far, I have developed and come up with about seven to eight questions, all pertaining to my skill in photography and copyright law's. Now, having said that; the questions that I have still need to be re-read and re-worded to have more of a professional stand and to meet the needs that are required. I also have sorted out a small list of lawyers to try and contact once I have fully finished my questions for the lawyer. I plan on working more and more on this throughout the next week, getting my questions finished to the standards that they need to be, and then finally trying my best contact some lawyers that are willing to help me answer my questions also in a professional manner. I also plan on trying to do my best with keeping up with my tweeting and blogging of each step I take in being successful in finishing this final project on time and in the correct way it needs to be done. I feel like the hardest part of this assignment is going to be trying to contact a lawyer thats willing to help me answer these questions, I am kind of having a hard time with getting my questions finished and developed in the way that is needed. But, I am more than determined to do good at this and get the assignment finished. This is how my progress is going to be planned, now weather it goes this exact way, i do not know. Lets hope this goes smoothly. . . Let the work begin.

Week 7- EOC: Plans

When I first looked over the final project for this class. I was very scared and nervous about it. I feel that it is going to be a very long and tough final. The process of figureing out how to start it is a tad bit overwhelming. But, my plans for putting this final project together is simply this, first I will find and make a list of some lawyers that may be able to help me with my questions, then I will begin to figure out what questions I want to ask one of these lawyers. I plan to make a outline of how to begin this. I will research lawyers on the net, and I will maybe even post something on facebook, tumblr, or even twitter and hopfully find someone who can help me find a lawyer that is willing to answer my questions for me. and be able to answer them clearly. I plan on calling some family members and some friends, as I know out of all the family members I have and friends I have through facebook and networking sites, there is bound to be someone who can help me. I also plan to keep calling and   researching till this project is complete. I am kind of worried about trying to complete everything i.n such little time to do so. But, I know that if I work hard and get the stuff done needed for all of this, I can do it. I have made it this far in this class, that I will not let my nerves and stupidity ruin my grade in this class. Believe me I am really not looking forward into calling around and trying to find a lawyer to answer my questions, but I got to do what I got to do. . . &, so be it.

Week 6 EOC: Illicit

I have mix feelings about this movie. I feel it was scary but, I also feel that it expressed a very important messege. I feel it was scary because most people who buy illegal products such as coach or D&G purses dont understand how illegal and against the law it really is. Most of these people think that it is a harmless act. Well, in reality its actually an extremely bad thing going on. Its extremely illegal, just as downloading music to your computer without paying for it is illegal. My feelings now after watching this movie, has changed a great deal. I also was one of these people who thought that just downloading music to my computer or buying a "fake" chanel hand bag was totally not wrong. Now, I realize how wrong it really is. When I was young I use to download music and movies illegally all the time. But, I met my boyfriend who now produces his own music and makes his own beats. He taught me that downloading music and movies was a terrible thing. How, artists lose money and their rights to their music. Which is the same thing that could happen to him, well, I sat and thought about how it wasn't right that people could do that and I most certaintly did not want people to do this to him with his music. That I stopped downloading music for free, because its not free. That if an authority caught me, I would be in alot of trouble and may even have to serve time. It actually reminds me of a southpark episode where the kids in the show downloaded a ton of music for free on the internet and they ended up paying for it and learning how artists lose a ton of money over doing such a thing.

Week 5 EOC: Patent Troubles

The news in this patent claim article I just read is stating about how companys are noticing more and more unlawful patent products. They are contacting suppliers of these products to make sure all of your products are up to date. One quote I got from this article was about how "companies are now spending alot of time investigating this, even the ones who havent been sued. It has captured the attention of a large cross section of corporate america." Reasoning behind paying so much attention to making sure there patents are valid is because they dont want to get sued either. They are scared that if it is found out that the patents have experation dates that they will be sued and even shut down. Although some of the cases have recently settles due to the fact that these companies dont want to pay the legal fees and court fees. In this article a lawyer and his wife trekked to retail stores and found many faulsly marked products on the shelves. They filed lawsuits against many companies and they also filed lawsuits against false advertising claims. There are so many false advertising claims in every day life. I witness them all the time. In my opinion Im sure that its hard looking and searching for products in stores from companies that have the wrong product dates on them. I also feel that its more than likly a huge hassel and waste of time but, if these companies dont enforce it than that company can result in getting sued or having their store shut down, this goes for false advertisment as well. I am sure that the manufactuers of these consumer products are on there game about this now and are more aware of checking the status of patents and making sure that their products are all  up to date. I think that its a good thing that these lawyers and companies are being more causous of this because I would hate to go buy some toothpaste from the store and in reality it be out dated. Also with the false advertisments. Somebody really needs to fix this, as I said I see it everywhere and to me its not fair as a customer its like were being lied to.