Topic - Online Video & copyright

Online video marketing’s legal issues – interview with Jonathan Moskin

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews attorney and intellectual property expert, Johnathan Moskin, on what are the most important legal issues today with online video marketing, and what all businesses should educate themselves on before publishing and promoting their video content on the Web.

Fighting IP Extremism with Online Video – The Lawrence Lessig Interview

We caught up with Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Stanford Law school’s Center for Internet and Society, and the opening Keynote Speaker the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 conference for “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”. We asked Professor Lessing if he believes there is significant IP extremism (i.e., legal restrictions) with online video content for both amateur and commercial use, and what video-specific solutions does he see in his proposal of a “hybrid economy” – protecting freedoms for video amateurs while producing incentives for video professionals.

Legal Considerations for Video Marketing – Interview with IP Attorney Mark Rosenberg

Mark Rosenberg intellectual property attorney and Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference speaker, shares with us the important legal issues that both companies and Video SEO professionals need to consider, especially before they even get started with making and promoting video content online.

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Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

American University’s Center for Social Media today released a white paper that details guidelines for using copyrighted material in online video. Fair use is often misunderstood as there are complex laws that govern fair use.  A set of clear guidelines was absolutely needed.

Dailymotion Announces Full Implementation of Copyrighted Protection

Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video sharing site, today announced full implementation of INA’s “Signature” technology across all localized and local language Dailymotion sites. Dailymotion’s use of video filtering technology follows several other copyrighted material protection initiatives throughout the site, including a hashing system, blocking videos that have already been removed from the site and use of an audio fingerprinting solution. In addition, Dailymotion is an original signatory to the UGC Copyright Principles (www.ugcprinciples.com).

Is Adobe Flash Digital Rights Management (DRM) Bad?

Interesting article titled, “Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash” on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s website.
In the post, Seth Schoen talks about Adobe’s new push to add digital rights managment (DRM) copyright protection to the flash player 9 and Flash Media Server software.  As Seth points out, one reason for the popularity of the Flash model currently is the lack of DRM restrictions.  So, is Flash DRM going to be the downfall flash as the online video player standard?

Dailymotion Announces Detection of Copyrighted Video

Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video sharing site, today announced full implementation of INA’s “Signature” technology across all localized and local language Dailymotion sites. Dailymotion’s use of video filtering technology follows several other copyrighted material protection initiatives throughout the site, including a hashing system, blocking videos that have already been removed from the site and use of an audio fingerprinting solution. In addition, Dailymotion is an original signatory to the UGC Copyright Principles (www.ugcprinciples.com) . Implementation of INA video fingerprinting technology reinforces Dailymotion’s leadership position in providing the most advanced copyright protection system for content owners.