Topic - Online Video & fair use
“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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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?
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.
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.
Video Marketing and Fair Use eBook – Discount for ReelSEO Readers!
Media Mogul Daisy Whitney today released her eBook: Keeping You and Your Content Out of Court: A guide to understanding the Fair Use Doctrine in the digital media age. This eBook is being touted as a “must-read for media producers,” and is now available for immediate download.
To get a 10% discount on this book, visit The New Media Minute eBooks section and enter the promo code “reelseo.” ReelSEO recent did a podcast interview with Daisy, and a video interview at the recent adtech San Francisco conference.
Online Video & The Fair Use Doctrine – Interview with Daisy Whitney
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Last week, we had the pleasure of speaking with online video expert and media personality, Daisy Whitney, about her soon to be released eBook titled, “Keeping Your Content (and yourself) Out of Court – A guide to understanding the Fair Use doctrine in the digital media age”.
“Fair Use” in Online Video Marketing – The Daisy Whitney Interview
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Internet video and social networking expert and e-media personality, Daisy Whitney, on her upcoming eBook, Keeping Your Content (and yourself) Out of Court – A guide to understanding the Fair Use doctrine in the digital media age. Daisy’s eBook digs into the what could be the most important legal issue to most businesses getting involved with online video marketing – “Fair Use.”
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Video Trademark Copycats on YouTube – Legal or Illegal?
There is a growing trend of online video companies that are featuring derivatives of the YouTube logo for their own brand;. Perhaps this is done to imply to customers and prospects of a special business affiliation the company has with YouTube, and also an implied advantage in the search results for their video content. Is this an acceptable use of the YouTube trademark – a business practice that’s savvy and effective? Or, its it unfair, and perhaps illegal? We interview two intellectual property attorneys for their take on these issues.
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.
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.
Is Adobe Flash Digital Rights Management (DRM) Bad?
Interesting article titled, “Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash” on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s website.
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Advanced Visual-Based Video Copyright Detection
Eyealike, announced a new product today dubbed, Eyealike Copyright. This ‘patent-pending’ search platform aims to automate the process of copyright protection for online video content owners. According to the release, the service will automatically distinguish and detect copyrighted content within a video. This is quite a step forward as other sites (like Youtube, mentioned in the release below) currently rely on keyword tags, watermarks, and other identifiers rather than automating the detection of content within the video itself. The theory, of course, is that this service will make it more difficult for copyright violators to post and share videos online.
