sponsorship in sport Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
...and corporate values, and sometimes to drive sales and revenues through association with the sponsored ‘property’. Sponsors may also be granted ancillary rights such as hospitality, tickets, and other promotional rights. Sponsors will often enter into a myriad of legal agreements to obtain rights to exploit and activate their sponsorship, as a number of different rights owners may own rights which the sponsor wishes to use, or wishes to prevent others from using (such as rights to player images, team crests, official event logos, and so on). Sponsorship is...
school governance, structure, and organization Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
...nursery schools, and pupil referral units. Current government policy strongly promotes specialist schools: schools may apply for specialist status within a designated subject area or areas, having obtained a limited amount of private sponsorship. Such schools obtain additional government funding. Private sector sponsorship and specialization are also evident in the establishment of academies under the Education Act 2002 as independent schools focusing on particular specialisms, a category of school which the government is currently seeking to expand...
Pound, (Nathan) Roscoe (27 October 1870) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Law
...role in these reform efforts. In fact, from the middle 1920s on, Pound’s involvement in data gathering and policy-planning projects, from his sponsorship of a study of criminal justice in Cleveland at the end of the 1920s to his attempt to write a system of laws for Nationalist China after World War II, did not advance the progressive agenda. Courted in the late 1920s and thereafter by the very elite corporate interests he had shunned in his youth, he became an outspoken critic of the New Deal and a severe critic of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’s...
Governance Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Law
...and increasingly urbanized population. Both levels of government have been under pressure to provide some measure of employment guarantees and old-age insurance, and control of the economic cycle, but they have resisted efforts to bring health insurance under governmental sponsorship, making U.S. unique among advanced industrial countries. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of twentieth-century America has been the structured effort to protect individual civil rights and achieve equality through the law. Beginning in 1925 , but especially since 1937 ,...
sports law Reference library
Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987 (Cth) to provide AOC with ongoing protection for the words ‘Olympic’, ‘Olympiad’ and ‘Olympic Games’. The Act protects these ‘Olympic expressions’ against unauthorised commercial use such as advertising, promotion or any suggestion of sponsorship or association with Olympic bodies, athletes, teams and events. The AOC is responsible for protection and development of the Olympic Movement in Australia, as well as the promotion of its goals and principles. Its 41 member organisations are the National Sporting...
Agency Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...treatment of agency doctrine in a treatise published in the United States was Floyd Mechem's (2d ed. 1914 ). Continuity with earlier works and ongoing intellectual coherence through the twentieth century stemmed from the Restatement of Agency prepared under the sponsorship of the American Law Institute. Professor Mechem served as the first reporter for this restatement, succeeded upon his death in 1928 by Professor Warren Seavey . Both the initial restatement (completed in 1933 ) and the second restatement (completed in 1957 ) are widely...
Intellectual Property Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...requirement). Increased costs of invention, commercialization, and protection in a globalizing economy have produced important changes in business organization as well as within the patent system. Corporate entities, with in-house inventors and acquired patent portfolios, increasingly predominate, as suggested by the almost nine-to-one ratio of corporate to individual patent issuances in 2005 . Alter-native methods of dispute resolution are increasingly popular, with but a few score infringement actions litigated to judgment annually. In confronting the...
Coors Boycott Reference library
Dionicio Valdés
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Operation PUSH, and the organizers of black history month. The agreements generally called for organizations to withhold support for the boycott in exchange for Coors funds. These included millions of dollars for advertising, sponsorship of music and cultural events to support businesses owned by Latinas and Latinos and African Americans, and money for scholarships for and direct employment of people of color. Simultaneously, Coors intensified its advertising aimed at minority consumers in both English- and...
Political Organizations Reference library
Benjamin Márquez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements
...Mainstream . Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, 2008. García, John A. Latino Politics in America: Community, Culture, and Interests . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Marquez, Benjamin . “Bankrolling Mexican American Political Organizations: Corporate and Foundation Sponsorship of Racial Politics.” Social Service Review 77, no. 3 (2003): 329–346. Marquez, Benjamin . Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations: Choosing Issues, Taking Sides . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Marquez, Benjamin , and John...
National Association of Hispanic Journalists Reference library
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements
...include working journalists in newspapers, magazines, television, online, and broadcast news; journalism students; college professors; and others in related media fields. Its headquarters are in the National Press Building in Washington, DC Funding is derived from grants, corporate sponsorships, proceeds from an annual convention, scholarship dinners, and membership fees. The NAHJ has contributed to a growing recognition of Latinos and Latinas in the news media. One indicator is the number of Latinos and Latinas in local television newscasts. When the NAHJ was...
Save the Children Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...devoting just 11.6 percent of its operating expenses to fund-raising and governance. The Romanian member receives 64 percent of its income from nonprofit organizations and international organizations. Another 29 percent is from membership fees, contributions, donations, and sponsorships. Of its total expenditures, 2 percent is spent on administration and slightly less than 4 percent on fund-raising, with another 3 percent on organizational development and 4 percent on communication. Thus, the Romanian member organization devotes nearly 86 percent of its...
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
... declined to seek another term, Richard Nixon , in a remarkable comeback, narrowly defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey . Independent candidate George C. Wallace , the former segregationist governor of Alabama , benefitted from southern resentment against Johnson’s sponsorship of civil rights legislation. Wallace won five Deep South states, but could not extend his appeal to the north. Humphrey won the Democratic nomination without contesting primary elections. He then appeased his Democratic critics by au-thorizing a commission to reform the nominating...
Murals Reference library
Holly Barnet-Sanchez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements
...disagreement as to when or if the art movement has concluded. During the years 1966 to 1981 , almost forty Chicano grupos (art collectives) and an equal number of centros (cultural centers) and galerías (galleries) formed, many of which were involved in mural sponsorship and production. These murals were—and some still are—located in urban barrios and rural colonias throughout the country, with highest concentrations in the Southwest (California, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), the Pacific Northwest (Washington State and Oregon), and...
Media Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...former scenario is more problematic than the latter; state-subsidized media exist in nations that feature a high level of media autonomy, such as the United States and Great Britain. In the United States, public radio and public television rely on citizen donations and corporate sponsorship to supplement governmental funding, so control is limited. Furthermore, the U.S. government has historically sponsored and operated prodemocracy radio channels that broadcast in other countries in which it has a strategic interest. The British Broadcasting Corporation (...
South American Southern Cone Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
...According to this doctrine, military forces needed to reorient their missions away from external defense to do battle against internal subversion, which was believed to be spread by peasant leagues, trade unions, student organizations, and leftist political movements. U.S. sponsorship and support for national security states reinforced the military's concern for stability and anti-Communism and encouraged a new focus within Latin American military establishments on internal security and national development. According to this doctrine, strong, unchallenged...
Elections Reference library
J. Morgan Kousser, Alan Ware, Allan J. Lichtman, Charles A. Kromkowski, and Donald A. DeBats
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
... declined to seek another term, Richard Nixon , in a remarkable comeback, narrowly defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey . Independent candidate George C. Wallace , the former segregationist governor of Alabama , benefitted from southern resentment against Johnson’s sponsorship of civil rights legislation. Wallace won five Deep South states, but could not extend his appeal to the north. Humphrey won the Democratic nomination without contesting primary elections. He then appeased his Democratic critics by au-thorizing a commission to reform the...
