No definition of transformative use is set out in the Copyright Act

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from the Law Office of Tom James

Posted on 08/02/2015

Which of the following statements is/are true?

(a) Copying up to 25 words is fair use.
(b) Copying less than 10 percent is fair use.
(c) Copying 25 words or 10% is fair use.
(d) Copying only a small amount is fair use.
(e) If you don’t make money on it, it’s fair use.
(f) It’s fair use if it’s for an educational purpose.
(g) Non-profit organizations can’t be sued for copyright infringement.
(h) It’s fair use if there’s no copyright notice on it.
(i) If the author is dead, you can copy anything he wrote.
(j) As long as you give credit to the author, it’s fair use.
(k) “Fair use” is a myth. There is no such thing.

If you answered (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), or (k), then you failed the test. You’re in good company, though; nearly everybody believes at least one of these things is true.

How to Sue a Family Court Judge

ABA Section of Litigation: Children’s Rights Litigation

Children are the innocent victims of such litigation and the grief that it inflicts. They should not be awarded to the "winner" as if they were a prize, whether that winner is an adoptive parent or a biological parent. Children are blameless. 

Depriving a child of his/her established, psychological family ties without consideration of the harm he/she will suffer infringes upon his/her procedural due process rights. 

Children's Rights are constitutionally founded and are at the core of all liberties, for if children cannot count on the inalienable right to life and liberty in the family context, then what does our society offer them? 

These constitutional interests are both procedural and substantive. Therefore they should not be disturbed absent a compelling, established competing interest which is entitled to constitutional protection. Even then, if the constitutionally protected interests are in conflict and evenly balanced, the conflict should be resolved in favor of the child.

A Century of Legal Ethics: Trial Lawyers and the ABA Canons of Professional Ethics

The ABA Canons of Ethics was adopted in 1908 and created ethical standards for lawyers.

How to Sue a JudgeBy David C. Grossack
Constitutional Attorney Common Law 

Leon Koziol Judicial Conduct Commission Report Dated April 23, 2013 by LeonKoziolJD

Family Law Lawyers Screened For Empathy

Prominent L.A. Attorney Says Future Lawyers Should Be Screened and Trained for Empathy

Increasingly we are entering an era where future lawyers should be screened and trained for empathy!

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Baer, an award-winning attorney and mediator in practice since 1991, notes, "Those who tend to be attracted to law school in the first place tend to be logical thinkers (rule oriented) and have low EQ levels. Moreover, the research indicates that the training students receive in law school also causes an 'erosion of empathy.' Furthermore, the more empathic students tend to drop out of law school at a much higher rate. 

Moreover, lawyers with 'higher level of resilience, empathy, initiative and sociability' are more likely to leave law practice than those with lower levels of those traits."

Baer claims this root problem is causing significant problems for society.

"Law schools must begin recognizing the damage that is being caused to interpersonal relationships and our overall society, due to the low EQ levels of those involved in the field of law and make a concerted effort to address this extremely serious problem. Law schools might learn a thing or two from the changes taking place in the education of future physicians," said Baer.

He then showed how a quote written about changes under consideration with regard to the medical field could apply equally well to the legal field with a few minor changes. The quote with his changes in brackets is as follows: It would benefit everyone if "leaders [in the legal field began] exploring ways to infuse more empathy into the [legal] field. That includes re-evaluating the criteria for who should get admitted to [law] school in the first place, and what they should learn while they're there. Their reforms [should] raise questions about what constitutes quality [legal] care, how (and whether) it can be trained, and how much change is even possible in the American [legal] system today."

To speak with Mark Baer,

Please contact: Aurora DeRose (310) 396-6090 – Aurora411@TimeWire.net.

Prominent L.A. Attorney Says Future Lawyers Should Be Screened and Trained for... -- LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Language and the Law - Simple Doesn't Mean Stupid

Excerpt from article:

Researching Reform: ~




Whether you take the view that legal jargon is an integral part of the culture inside the justice system, or offers an efficient labelling tool for the speedy processing of information, law is no longer a selective world but a communal one; and everyone wants to speak the language.

Blame the internet and a growing social conscience online, but simplifying language in law has been one of the defining phenomena for the UK justice system in the twenty-first century. For Family Courts at least, coming into contact with parents, children and extended family members who are not trained to deal in family law jargon, pressure to change the way we use language has contributed to wide-scale reform. The most notable to date, Mr Justice Ryder's recommendations for modernising the family justice system, included looking at the way terms and phrases were being used and seeing how we could break those down and make them easier to understand. Despite this, much of the language still used in court and by lawyers and other professionals inside the justice system remains unnecessarily complex.

Litigants in Person (LIP) continue to struggle with terminology inside the courts, with judges reportingdelays inside their courtrooms as a result, and more time spent explaining phrases and processes. Sadly, the current guidelines seem to have done very little to address this problem, perhaps in large part due to the fact that legal jargon exists before and after the court process, with very little help for LIPs during those in-between moments when they are effectively without support.

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Equal Rights For BOTH Parents!

Buy a shirt and fund the attorney we just found in Florida to argue 

Declaratory Judgment and destroy the unconstitutional practices in family courts

The money raised in this booster will go towards helping each state file a declaratory judgment to stop the unconstitutional practices in the family courts. The first portion of this month's campaign will be designated for the filing fees in Sarasota, Florida. If there are overages the extra will go into the nonprofit "Keeping Families Intact." Wear one of these shirts proudly knowing that you are part of the solution!

No More Jim Crow Family Courts - Defeating one state at a time!

Parents have been struggling far too long through the family courts. Both the parents and children are being abused and taken advantage of. It is too expensive and difficult for parents to fight this. And the time it takes to fight it causes the destruction of their relationships with their children, has cost many their health as well as some their lives.

Organized by: Sherry Palmer

Brainwashed Daughter Falsely Accused Father of Sexual Abuse

CHICAGO, June 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Litigators Leslie P. Poole and Misty I. Gamino from the Law Offices of Jeffery M. Levingwon an important victory in Chicago and finally brought justice to a father by persuading the Judge to incarcerate his ex-wife for violating an order prohibiting her to contact her daughter, and for owing over $50,000.00 in past-due child support. This occurred after the mother brainwashed her daughter to make false allegations of sexual abuse against her own father.

The father was granted residential custody of their daughter in his divorce.  In an attempt to gain leverage in her pursuit to change custody and terminate her child support obligation, the ex-wife forced their daughter to make false allegations of sexual and physical abuse against her father to the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

The ex-wife's malicious attempt to interfere with the father's relationship with his daughter failed when he turned to the Law Offices ofJeffery M. Leving to fight these serious and unfounded accusations. "The father faced wrongful incarceration and almost lost his relationship with his daughter," said internationally renowned Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery M. Leving.

The Leving Team fought vigorously to prove the allegations against the father were false. The mother's manipulation of her daughter led the Judge to enter an order prohibiting her from contact with her daughter. Even after this order was entered, the mother continued to contact her daughter to convince her to make additional false allegations.

Given the danger and harm the mother had already caused this family, the Judge jailed the mother for her continued disregard of the no-contact order and for her failure to pay child support in an amount in excess of $50,000.00.

The child is now safe with her father and he is now able to live without the fear of being incarcerated based on false accusations. 

This is an accredited example of the importance of responsible fatherhood and the rights of a child.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Whiteside at (312) 296-3666.

CONTACT: Jennifer Whiteside  
312.296.3666

SOURCE Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd.

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Where's The Common Sense? Fix Family Courts!

"Children need both parents to be involved in their lives even when parents don't live together anymore!"

Loving Florida father's like "Ray" are being denied their parental rights by the other parent and their Florida Attorneys,  Florida Judges and Magistrates, and Florida's Judicial System! Family courts routinely curtail parenting rights...Support father's rights as well as the children's best interests! We are loving, caring, God-fearing, hard working individuals!  

These attorneys and the Family Courts need to prove why a Father should NOT have 50% Equal Time Share Arrangement! This is basically a crime of parental alienation which goes on every day in Florida's Family Courts Some People raise their voices, other People do not feel empowered to do so. Please help us put a stop to these human and civil rights violations." ~ Tina

#‎familylawcourts‬

Imagine a day when your ex can no longer use the system 

Fix Family Courts ‪#‎falseclaimsofabuse‬  at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/syndicatednews/2013/08/21/not-in-the-childs-best-interest 

New Study Says Divorce Can Seriously Impact Men's Health  - www.huffingtonpost.com

High Cost Of Returning To Family Court