UCF Law & Ethics Communication, 2018

Fabrik Follies is a company that manufacturers novelty T-shirts. In 2008 they put out a series of shirts with caricatures of well known athletes on the front. The back of the shirts contained bits of comic data about the athletes, and parodies of their names. One of the shirts features a chubby cartoon caricature of Ric Lion, a popular wrestler and member of the Worldwide Wrestling Conglomeration, the WWC. The back of the shirt contained the following: “Sick And Cryin’” earned $4 bazillion last year throwing his weight around the ring. Cryin’ is a top draw for the WWC, the Weird Wrestling Circus.” Lion sued Fabrik for appropriation, claiming the company had used his likeness for commercial purposes. He also noted he was marketing his own line of shirts and jackets that contained his likeliness, and this shirt might hurt the sale of his own clothing. A. Would Lion sue for harm to his right to privacy or his right to publicity? Explain why you selected one cause of action rather than...

Here is a link to the PPT for the Privacy Chapters. Plese try to answer some of the questions about looking at the answers.

Here is a link to a Michigan libel case. Apply the information from chapters 4-6 to the case.

Here is a link to a PPT about defenses to a libel lawsuit.

Here is a lin k to a PPT for chapters 4 & 5 - establishing a libel lawsuit.

Here is a link to a PPT for chapter three - more contemporary issues.

Here is a link to a PPT for chapter 2 about contemporary issues.

Here is the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics. Here is the Association of Food Journalists' Code of Ethics. Here is the Radio, Television, Digital News Association Code of Ethics. Here is the Public Relations Association Code of Ethics.

Here is a link to a video about Bills vs Executive Orders. More about these kinds of legislation is also found in chapter one.

Note the significance of the First Amendment in a public high school.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Why is the Duck Dynasty controversy NOT a First Amendment issue?

Here is a PPT going over the law basics in chapter one.

Here is a link to biographies of the Supreme Court Justices.