week 10 EOC lawyer jokes

Q: What's the one thing that never works when it's fixed?
A: A jury.
Q: What's the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.
Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a leech?
A: After you die, a leech stops sucking your blood.
Q: How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Three, One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. And one to sue the ladder company.
http://www.iciclesoftware.com/LawJokes/IcicleLawJokes.html
Q: How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?
A: His lips are moving.
Q: Why are there so many lawyers in the U.S.?
A: Because St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland

Two lawyers were out hunting when they came upon a couple of tracks. After close examination, the first
lawyer declared them to be deer tracks. The second lawyer disagreed, insisting they must be elk tracks.
They were still arguing when the train hit them.

A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Tim, you be first," she said. "What does your mother do all day?"
Tim stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor."
"That's wonderful. How about you, Amie?"
Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a mailman."
"Thank you, Amie," said the teacher. "What about your father, Billy?"
Billy proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy murders people, steals from them, and drinks."

The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she went to Billy's house and rang the bell. Billy's father answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said and asked if there might be some logical explanation.
Billy's father said, "I'm actually an attorney. But how can I explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old?"

http://www.ahajokes.com/law035.html

Q: What do you have if three lawyers are buried up to their necks in cement?
        A: Not enough cement.
Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a vulture?
        A: The lawyer gets frequent flyer miles.
Guess Who
        A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.
        His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says "I'm sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"
        "But why?" asks the man.
        "I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies
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The Truck Driver, Priest, and Lawyer
        A truck driver used to amuse himself by running over lawyers he saw walking down the side of the road. Every time he saw a lawyer walking along the road, he swerved to hit him and there would be a loud "THUMP". Then he would swerve back on the road.
        One day, as the truck driver was driving along the road he saw a priest hitchhiking. He thought he would do a good deed and pulled the truck over.
        "Where are you going, Father?" The truck driver asked.
        "I'm going to the church 5 miles down the road," replied the priest.
        "No problem, Father! I'll give you a lift. Climb in the truck." The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued down the road. Suddenly, the truck driver saw a lawyer walking down the road.
        Instinctively he swerved to hit him. At the last moment he remembered there was a priest in the truck with him, so he swerved back to the road and narrowly missed the lawyer.
        Certain he should've missed the lawyer, the truck driver was very surprised and immediately uneasy when he heard a loud "THUMP". He felt really guilty about his actions and so turned to the priest and said, "I'm really sorry Father. I almost hit that lawyer."
        "That's okay," replied the priest. "I got him with the door."
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Lawyer.htm

Q: Why does the law society prohibit sex between lawyers and their clients?

A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.

Q: Why are lawyers so good at racketball?

A: Because they stoop so low.

Q: Why won't sharks attack lawyers?
A: Professional courtesy.

Q: What is the definition of a shame (as in "that's a shame")?
A: When a busload of lawyers goes off a cliff.

Q: What is the definition of a "crying shame"?
A: There was an empty seat.
http://www.funnyhumor.com/jokes/766.php

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many orchards does it take for a lawyer?

http://www.manwalksintoajoke.com/lawyers

week 9 EOC wall street journal opinion

Okay so, going on the subject of marijuana, we all know it’s illegal everywhere, no exceptions. And despite federal law two states have made it “okay” to smoke it. The problem with this is that like in a family of many children, the others opt it unfair and want to join in as well.  Regarding the article in the wall street journal, Obama has chosen to pass the law but at the same time ignore it, making the use of “medical’ marijuana okay, not legal but okay.  This in, my point of view, will end up like all the other vices our country suffers from. Eventually we will tolerate it in all 50 states and the American drug dealers will begin to be taxed for the exchange and production, or growth, of pot. I am under age and not allowed to be part of this whole vicious cycle. Unfortunately while in high school the trafficking of pot specifically was at an all-time high. I could name of 5 students that I could go to get “the stuff” at reasonable enough prices. The school, though they knew of the happenings, never took action, usually turning a blind eye unless reported. It went so far that during the few years I spent there the street across from the front gates became the rendezvous point for both the dealers and the smokers.

In the Wall Street the exact quote was given “Justice warns that it will intervene if it discovers that marijuana is flowing to children or being trafficked to states where it is still illegal, though under federal law it is still illegal in all states. The memo tells prosecutors to ignore even "large-scale, for-profit enterprises," which are usually targets for taxation.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323324904579044771286022400.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet which brings us back to the present. It’s writing on the wall. It is flowing to our children and it is happening at a large scale, its going on nationwide. And how is this being addressed,” General Eric Holder says never mind all that, and Americans should mellow out about such legal nuances.”  This is coming straight from the horse’s mouth.University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin says if the administration doesn't act soon to sort out the federal-state conflict, it may be too late to do much.

"At some point, it becomes so prevalent and so many citizens will be engaged in it that it's hard to recriminalize something that's become commonplace," he says.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/marijuana-legalization_n_3521547.html

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reasoning of the law

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the questions

1. How would an artist really go about enforcing a contractual clause and what action can i take if violation are made?
2. Are there any terms that specifically could limit an actor's future work?
3. And if so how can we work around that?
4. A character in a film is reading a novel by a famous author. Do I need to get clearances for this and what if i don't?
5. Do non-union actors have the right to ask for more payment if the project will end up being in many more mediums than originally expected? (i.e.: the post said industrial but the paper work says industrial, print, web, etc.)
6. I made a film whilst at film school. It was not part of my course but I did use the school facilities. Does this mean they own the copyright?
7. I have used a brand logo in my film but have disguised it by calling the company a different name (a pun on their name). The design is otherwise identical though. Does this count as a breach of copyright? and can it still be a breach if the logo even after a change is still implying negativity of a well known business. 
8.  Who can claim copyright to my project after turned into a popular film? (author and work made for hire)

 9. what exclusive copyright laws do i have to a project that has made considerate accomplishment?
10. What must a producer provide to SAG and who would most directly benefit?

I liked these questions, or better i found them interesting. There were a lot of words, like SAG, that i  don't know what they mean in the eyes of a lawyer. And of course i also found that all the questions above are issues that i can be faced with.

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