It’s Valentine’s Day, so get ready for the film top 10s — most romantic kisses? Best soundtracks? Sassiest sidekicks?
Well, at Sparqa Legal we like to keep things clear and legal. So, instead, we’ve compiled a countdown of our top 3 Rom Coms for you, and their legal implications. Just because you’re exercising your heart muscles doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise your brain too…
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The budding romance between Jason Segel and Mila Kunis’ characters is complicated by the presence of the ex, played by Kristen Bell, and Russell Brand’s millennial glam rocker. Sex, alcohol and Dracula opera collide within the idyll of a five-star Hawaiian holiday resort in a quintessential Judd Apatow film. Mahalo indeed.
What should you do if your employee resigns in order start their own puppet show? Or destroys an office projector in a rage? Or stops coming to work to sit at home and eat mountains of Froot Loops? Or, on a more basic level, what rights do your staff have to holiday leave, career breaks, and time off for illness and other matters? Sparqa Legal may be of use to you in these scenarios.
Forget Sarah Marshall; don’t forget Sparqa Legal.
2. 10 things I hate about you
Teen angst, betrayal, third-wave feminist overtones and a father who makes his daughters wear a pregnancy suit before they go out to parties. All this in a film that features then-nascent stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.
Early on in 10 things I hate about you we are introduced to Ms Perky, the guidance counsellor of Padua High School, who spends most of the film grappling with double entendres as some sort of proto EL James. Played by television hall-of-famer Allison Janney, the guidance counsellor’s fumbling attempts towards literary success could have benefitted from the Sparqa Legal touch. Providing guidance on a host of intellectual property topics, our section on establishing copyright will help you to understand how copyright works, how to determine ownership, and the implications of Brexit.
Don’t burn, pine or perish, use Sparqa Legal.
1. You’ve got mail
A romance couched in the screechy internet dial-up tone of the 90s. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) meet as anonymous online pen-pals to engage in supportive, cliché-heavy tête-à-têtes. Meanwhile, unbeknown to them, Fox’s American Dream mega-chain — Fox Books — is steamrollering Kelly’s indie Shop Around The Corner. Cue lovable drama and that ol’ Hanks and Ryan spark.
There are plenty of legal starting-points in You’ve Got Mail that will be of interest to SMEs. Our GDPR and data protection chapter deals with the issues involved with monitoring staff emails and online activity. Similarly, Sparqa Legal also covers how to end a tenancy when leaving a business premises, and the steps to take when selling a business.
Why go to the mattresses when you can go to Sparqa Legal?
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This article was published on 13/02/2019 based on information as of that date. The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only and is not intended to provide legal advice.