### legal issue:

Equal protection
* is guaranteed by the state constitution
  - violated when any citizen is treated differently in like situations
* legal issue.
* means securing all citizens both from oppression and neglect by the majority.
* prohibits various kinds of discrimination.

### legal right:

Copyright
* also provide a level of protection for software.
* apply to creative , original works of authorship.
* are a Western creation, unnatural to Asian cultures
  - form of property that can be bought, sold, inherited, etc
  - method of protecting the rights of the creator of certain types of works
  - much different sort of property
  - third weapon in a company's intellectual property arsenal
  - another form of protecting intellectual property
  - different from trademarks and patents
  - documents
  - for people who labor for years and put their life's blood into intellectual property
  - how writers, artists, musicians, and programmers earn their daily bread
  - legal rights
  - more than protections of free speech, they are protection of an economic system
  - most significant in the computer software and art industries
* are property of their respective owners and are used by permission
  - rights, and are protected by federal stuatute
  - protection from copying for literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works
* are the chief way of protecting computer programs, written works, art and music
  - expressed property of the associated organizations
* can protect a book, computer software, videotape, musical score, work of art, etc.
* come into existence upon creation and when fixed in tangible form.
* exist at the moment an original work of authorship is created and written down.
* generally deal with a fixed expression of an idea, such as a poem, picture, or story.
* is papers
* pertain even when no explicit statement is included with software, text, or data.
* protect an original expression which is fixed in a tangible way, like a book
  - artistic expressions fixed in a tangible medium
  - books, articles, lectures, music, and photographs
  - creative expression
  - forms of expression that are originally authored works
* protect literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works against copying
  - scientific, and artistic works, as well as computer software
* protect original creative works of authorship
  - works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression
* protect the expression of an idea or creative work
  - ideas
  - tangible expression of ideas
  - thoughts and ideas of authors, composers and artists
  - written works, art works, plays, motion pictures, etc., from unauthorized use
* provide protection for literary and artistic expressions.
* restrict use of ideas just as other laws protect physical property.
* result from the tangible expression of creative thought.

### legal right | copyright:

Compilation copyright
* are a special breed of copyrightable work.
* protect the collection and assembling of data or other materials.

### legal right:

Eminent domain
* allows a city to force landowners to sell their land to the city
  - cities to purchase land against the owner's wishes
* are legal rights.
* is something only government can do, either local, state or federal.
* is the power of government to take land from private owners through condemnation
  - to appropriate private property for public use
* is the power to take over private property for the public good
  - private property for a public purpose
  - prerogative of a sovereign state
* is the right of government to take over private property for public use
  - the government to take private property for public use
  - to take while condemnation is the act of doing so
  - taking of private property by the government for the public good
  - used for community tax base gains rather than the elimination of true blight
* law for unreasonable parties.
* power that can be gravely misused in lots of different kinds of ways.