copyright Articles

Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is “the right to copy”, but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights. It is a form of intellectual property (like the patent, the trademark, and the tr...

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 ...

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.

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. The first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...