Topic - Online Video & copyright
YouTube Beefs up Partner Video Blocking Ability
It is making the rounds on the webosphere that 
YouTube has implemented two new buttons on the partner interface that pertain to blocking of videos.
“Fair Use” Legal Update – What Online Video Professionals Should Know
Listen to my podcast interview with intellectual property and new media attorney David Adler to hear about recent developments with a popular case today involving the battle between fair use and copyright protection, and what it can teach us about detecting and preventing clear-cut copyright violations in online video marketing.
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Warner Music Close To Deal With YouTube For Music Videos
Warner Music Group and YouTube are said to be close to a deal to bring music videos from Warner’s artists back to the video sharing site. You may remember that Warner pulled their artists’ videos in December of 2008 over a licensing rights dispute.
Social Media: Sharing, Theft and the Fine Line
I’ve recently had problems with some of my content being republished (here at ReelSEO and R2 relations) without any request for permission, links back to the site or editing of the content. As far as I’m concerned that constitutes plagiarism as they are taking credit for the content, copyright infringement as they are republishing without a license to do so and just downright theft. So where is the line when it comes to online content and more specifically, online video?
Right of Publicity – Most Overlooked Legal Issue with Online Video
While trademark and copyright has typically made up most of the discussion of legal issues around online marketing and video for business, many companies today are still completely unaware of another equally important issue – controlling your image and likeness in any video by someone else for whatever purpose . This is known as, the “right of publicity.”
Greg Jarboe – IP Extremism vs Fair Use with Online Video
At SES San Jose 2009, I spoke with Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder of SEO-PR, about some common legal questions and issues with regard to online video. Greg talks about “IP extremism” – the increase of attorneys’ knee-jerk legal reactions – including cease-and-desist orders and sometimes lawsuits –to seeing any instance of their client’s owned video content being up on YouTube and everywhere on the web by others even if those uses clearly fall under legally protected fair use guidelines.
Time Warner to Make YouTube Profitable?
As I pointed out in my Dark Side of Online Video article, Viacom is suing YouTube for all sorts of copyright infringement and that case is being run in conjunction with a class action lawsuit from other quarters. Meanwhile, Time Warner has taken a different tack and has decided to cut a major deal with the Google property.
The Dark Side of Online Video?
Just as there are white hat and black hat hackers, SEO companies and just about everything else in the world, there is also black hat online video…the so-called pirates. But where is the line drawn between legal and illegal video and where is the line on morality?
Lessons in Video & SEO – The JK Wedding Dance Video
A little video of a wedding entrance made a huge splash a couple weeks ago. You probably saw it. If not, you almost definitely heard about it. For their entrance, the wedding party eschewed the more traditional entrance and scampered down the church aisle in various hip hop dance styles to a Chris Brown song named “Forever.” They were all pretty good dancers, too, except for one or two poor souls in the group.
Is Ogg Theora the Savior of Online Video?
Ogg Theora, the magical, mystical, savior of the online video movement? Tapped to be part of the Open Video Standards and set to take its position at center stage in the push for widespread online video acceptance, but is it all it can be and is it all that we need?
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video – Remix Culture
The American University School of Communication’s Center for Social Media has released a report on what constitutes fair use of copyrighted video and material online.
Does YouTube not give a s**t about ethical business people?
Months ago I warned of an increasing number of online video solution providers copycatting the YouTube logo to create “initial-interest confusion” with consumers. Has YouTube finally started cracking down on this deceptive practice in the industry of video and SEO? Or are they continuing to ignore it, making it increasingly difficult for businesses to be honest?
