Protecting the Public Interest: Nonstatutory Suits by the United States

The postsecondary accreditation process is a unique system that attempts to evaluate and enhance the quality of higher and professional education in the United States. Critics of accreditation see the process as coercive and a deterrent to academic freedom while others call for accreditors to exercise greater authority. The origination of the process was a result of a number of coinciding events involving the development of educational and professional standards and concern over access. The current focus on assessment of educational outcomes has further established the credibility of postsecondary accreditation and its role in protecting the public interest.

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Increase in Google Trends Regarding Telogen Effluvium Due To COVID-19

SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine ◽

10.25251/skin.5.2.8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 137-139

Author(s):

Jasmine Garg ◽

Abigail Cline ◽

Frederick Pereira

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Hair Loss ◽

Public Interest ◽

The United States ◽

Google Trends ◽

Therapeutic Interventions ◽

The Public ◽

Search Terms ◽

The Future ◽

Before And After

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the public interest in the United States of telogen effluvium before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in order to investigate the best therapeutic interventions for dermatologists in the future. Methods: We performed Google TrendsTM search for “COVID hair loss”, “telogen effluvium” and “hair loss” between 5/1/20 and 8/16/20. Conclusion: All three terms have increased in popularity for search terms since mid-March and were the most prevalent in the states that experienced the earliest increase in number of coronavirus cases.

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PENERAPAN DOKTRIN FAIR USE TERHADAP PEMANFAATAN HAK CIPTA PADA PLATFORM DIGITAL SEMASA COVID 19 DI INDONESIA

Dialogia Iuridica Jurnal Hukum Bisnis dan Investasi ◽

10.28932/di.v13i1.3750 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 130-148

Author(s):

Rika Ratna Permata ◽

Tasya Safiranita ◽

Yuliana Utama ◽

Reihan Ahmad Millaudy

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Interest ◽

The United States ◽

Fair Use ◽

Internet Archive ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

The Public ◽

Potential Market ◽

Legitimate Interests ◽

Almost All

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in more people doing activities from home, so almost all activities are carried out online, including for educational activities. The problems on this research are how the comparison between fair use regulations in Indonesia and in the United States during the pre-Covid-19 pandemic? How the regulations of the doctrine of fair use to anticipate the occurrence of a new phenomenon regarding the use of copyright on digital platforms during and/or after the Covid-19 pandemic? The method used in writing this law is a normative juridical method. The results of the study conclude that Fair use rules in Indonesia already regulate that fair use will not harm the legitimate interests of creators but does not provide clear parameters regarding fair interests. While the Fair use Arrangements in the United States are regulated in 17 U.S. Code 107. In this regulation, there are 4 factors, namely: the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the quantity and importance of the material used, the effect of the use upon potential market or value of the copyrighted work. The Covid-19 pandemic gave rise to fair use cases that had never occurred before the outbreak of Covid-19, e.g. the case of The Internet Archive, it can be observed that there is an encouragement from the public to further relax copyright protection because of the Covid-19 pandemic resulting in the public interest having to be carried out rather than the creators and copyright holders.

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Posthumous control of copyright, its limitations and the public interest

Journal of Comparative Law in Africa ◽

10.47348/jcla/v8/i2a2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 32-62

Author(s):

Desmond Osaretin Oriakhogba ◽

Gloria Kanwulia Adeola-Adedipe

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

South Africa ◽

Public Interest ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Options ◽

The Public ◽

And Control ◽

Desk Research ◽

Shed Light

Conducted as a desk research, this paper examines the interface between copyright and succession laws, the notion of testamentary freedom, its limitations and justification for its restriction. The paper draws on this examination to discuss the freedom of authors to dispose their copyright under testate and intestate arrangements, and posthumously control the use of their works under the Nigerian Copyright Act. Following this discussion, the paper identifies and examines the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act that can limit the capacity of authors to posthumously control the use of their works in Nigeria. The paper contends that authors’ liberty to transfer their copyright by testamentary disposition or operation of law, and control the use of their works posthumously, without public interest friendly limitations, can create an imbalance within the copyright system. This paper addresses the issues of whether public interest objectives may be achieved through the limitation in the extant Copyright Act, especially given the propensity for copyright misuse by authors in death, as well as during their lifetime, and what policy options may align the public interest with authors’ posthumous control of copyright. In resolving these questions, the paper draws on instances of copyright misuse in the United States of America (USA) and South Africa and situates them within the Nigerian context to shed light on the issues discussed.

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Professional Evaluation in the Public Interest(s)

American Journal of Evaluation ◽

10.1177/1098214017729876 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 540-545 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

George Julnes ◽

Maria Bustelo

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Interest ◽

The United States ◽

Professional Values ◽

Technical Aspects ◽

Evaluation Practice ◽

The Public ◽

Professional Evaluation ◽

Serving Society ◽

Professional Ethos

Efforts to promote professionalism in evaluation, whether through certification, credentialing, or other path, are not new, but there is a new push to adopt sets of essential evaluator competencies, both in the United States and globally, that are intended to advance professionalism of the field. This emphasis on professionalism is relevant to the American Journal of Evaluation Section on Professional Values and Ethics in that this section focuses on how values are to influence evaluation practice and on how our understanding of valuing affects our view of the ethics that should guide evaluators. In his invited contribution to this issue’s section, Tom Schwandt provides an account of professionalism based on a view of evaluators serving a moral purpose in serving society. This account, a democratic professionalism in which citizens are engaged as co-owners of evaluation, emphasizes a professional ethos of evaluation that complements the focus of those working to advance the more technical aspects of professionalism. To introduce Schwandt’s essay, we review some of the recognized promises and challenges for professionalism in evaluation and highlight the promise of Schwandt’s approach for managing the tension in professions between serving professionals and serving society.

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German-American Commercial Relations

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2188308 ◽

1925 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 689-701

Author(s):

Wallace McClure

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Interest ◽

The United States ◽

Most Favored Nation ◽

American Government ◽

Commercial Policy ◽

The Public ◽

Careful Scrutiny ◽

Important Development ◽

Most Favored Nation Clause

In the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights signed with Germany on December 8,1923, the United States inaugurated an important development of its commercial policy in conformity with the Tariff Act of 1922, Section 317 of which directs the President, if “the public interest will be served thereby,” to “specify and declare new or additional duties” upon goods imported from countries that discriminate against the commerce of the United States. Pursuant to this provision the American Government undertook the negotiation of agreements with other countries both to eliminate existing discriminations and to obtain assurances that existing equality of treatment would be maintained. Preparation for the new series of commercial arrangements included a careful scrutiny of the most-favored-nation clause as applied to customs duties.

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