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Plagiarism Is Not A Crime, Brian L. Frye
Plagiarism Is Not A Crime, Brian L. Frye
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Copyright infringement and plagiarism are related but distinct concepts. Copyright prohibits certain uses of original works of authorship without permission. Plagiarism norms prohibit copying certain expressions, facts, and ideas without attribution. The prevailing theory of copyright is the economic theory, which holds that copyright is justified because it is economically efficient. This article considers whether academic plagiarism norms are economically efficient. It concludes that academic plagiarism norms prohibiting non-copyright infringing plagiarism are not efficient and should be ignored.
Product Liability's Parallel Universe: Fault-Based Liability Theories And Modern Products Liability Law, Richard C. Ausness
Product Liability's Parallel Universe: Fault-Based Liability Theories And Modern Products Liability Law, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Strict liability has always been the heart and soul of American products liability law. As early as 1963, Justice Roger Traynor in Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. stated that "[a] manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market, knowing that it will be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes injury to a human being." Shortly thereafter, the drafters of section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts made it clear that the exercise of due care would not shield sellers from liability when their products caused injury. …
The Offshore Asset Protection Trust: A Prudent Financial Planning Device Or The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel?, Richard C. Ausness
The Offshore Asset Protection Trust: A Prudent Financial Planning Device Or The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel?, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In recent years, a large number of Americans have established "asset protection trusts" in foreign countries. An asset protection trust is a self-settled spendthrift trust which is created in order to protect the settlor's property from the claims of creditors. Virtually all American jurisdictions recognize spendthrift trusts, which prohibit both voluntary and involuntary alienation of a third party beneficiary's interest in a trust; however, most do not allow a settlor who has retained a beneficial interest in a spendthrift trust to protect that interest from the claims of creditors. A growing number of present and former British possessions, however, have …
The Past And Future Of Kentucky's Fraudulent Transfer And Preference Laws, Douglas C. Michael
The Past And Future Of Kentucky's Fraudulent Transfer And Preference Laws, Douglas C. Michael
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
An important part of the law of creditors' remedies is the ability of creditors to recover property formerly held by the debtor, but transferred to others under circumstances that are considered to be unfair or inequitable. There are two principal ways a creditor can seek to have a debtor's transfer characterized as unfair in order to recover it. First, a transfer to another creditor or a third party can be fraudulent as to one or all of the remaining creditors, or may be deemed to be fraudulent because of the circumstances surrounding the transfer, such as a transfer made by …
Blue Sky Laws And The Recent Congressional Preemption Failure, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.
Blue Sky Laws And The Recent Congressional Preemption Failure, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Laws regarding the sale of securities may be understood as responses to perceived bargaining failures. The most extreme examples of these bargaining failures are seen in instances in which investors are intentionally misled or defrauded regarding the quality of the investments they receive for their money. Even without the presence of such culpability, however, bargaining failures are likely anytime the trading parties lack sufficient, accurate information necessary to effect value-enhancing trades. When that occurs in trades for capital, the parties to the transaction are misinformed respecting the trade, expectations are not protected, and that precious commodity, capital, may be turned …
An Open Attack On The Nonsense Of Blue Sky Regulation, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.
An Open Attack On The Nonsense Of Blue Sky Regulation, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The evolution of state securities laws (hereinafter "blue sky laws") in this country is a classic example of regulation that was, perhaps, initially justified and that was apparently promulgated with the best of motives, but which now is actually harmful to society. Today, blue sky laws are ineffective, philosophically unsound, and unnecessarily expensive, and they should be substantially eliminated. Because of the vested interests that have developed, however, it is unlikely that states will respond to this problem, and it will probably take action by the United States Congress to preempt the area. Such an action is appropriate and, indeed, …
Fraud Between Sexual Partners Regarding The Use Of Contraceptives, Diane M. Carlton
Fraud Between Sexual Partners Regarding The Use Of Contraceptives, Diane M. Carlton
Kentucky Law Journal
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Toward Maximum Facilitation Of Intent To Create Enforceable Article Nine Security Interests, Harold R. Weinberg
Toward Maximum Facilitation Of Intent To Create Enforceable Article Nine Security Interests, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code generally facilitates individual autonomy in the creation of consensual security interests by imposing limited form and content requirements on security agreements. Private autonomy is subordinated, however, where the Article's draftsmen believed that certain other policies required a degree of regulation. Through the process of interpreting and applying a number of Code provisions which set forth the requirements for creating security interests, a court can effectuate what it considers to be the appropriate balance between facilitating the parties' intent to create a security interest and insuring that regulatory policies, such as protecting creditors and …
Creditors' Rights: Conveyances In Fraud Of Subsequent Creditors, Cecil D. Walden
Creditors' Rights: Conveyances In Fraud Of Subsequent Creditors, Cecil D. Walden
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Husband And Wife--Conveyance In Fraud Of Material Rights Of The Wife, Joe R. Johnson Jr.
Husband And Wife--Conveyance In Fraud Of Material Rights Of The Wife, Joe R. Johnson Jr.
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Fraud In The Inducement Jurisdiction Of Equity To Relieve In Kentucky, Glenn Denham
Fraud In The Inducement Jurisdiction Of Equity To Relieve In Kentucky, Glenn Denham
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Fraud Or Misrepresentation By Purchaser Inducing Sale Of Shares Of Stock, William Q. De Funiak
Fraud Or Misrepresentation By Purchaser Inducing Sale Of Shares Of Stock, William Q. De Funiak
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Fraud On Special Powers Of Appointment, Amos H. Eblen
Fraud On Special Powers Of Appointment, Amos H. Eblen
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.