"We are under no obligation to communicate in the way you have suggested and will not be doing so".
"Firms have an obligation to communicate all conflicts so a client can fairly judge the investment advice they are receiving," said Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC enforcement division.
There may be some obligation to communicate for writers who are "involved in public life and [have] louder than average voices when it came to communicating with institutions", Kennedy continues, "but that's not necessarily all about writers being lovely and altruistic – anything that a writer does with the public might potentially increase their sales, or visibility".
And there is an added obligation to communicate the accessibility of the law because the national legal heritage has not always been fairly shared in this country; the battle to extend it to all Americans has taken place not only in legal settings but on the battlefield and, during the civil-rights era, in the streets.
"I consider it … my obligation to communicate what I know," she said.
Secondly, teachers are urged by a strong sense of accountability and obligation to communicate to both parents and students regarding the level of learning achievement attained in school.
She also believes that if your work is paid by public money you have an obligation to communicate your results to the public.
At most institutions, the department chair is the primary interpreter of written tenure policy; it's his or her obligation to communicate the unwritten "rules of the game".
While Twitter is free, it does have an obligation to communicate with its users, since its intent is to be the "pulse of the planet".
