Video & The Law
Legal Video Guide – Learn tips for important legal issues with online video for commercial use. Here we offer news and insights into copyright infringement, fair use, trademark, right of publicity, right of privacy, defamation, trade secrets, waivers and releases – and how all of this relates to web video and digital media. Here you will find trends, tips, and insights with real attorneys and legal professionals in internet and new media law, intellectual property law, entertainment law.
Intellectual Property Law Attorney Marcelo Halpern gives us a “legal video education” on why most online video professionals and enthusiasts today have big misconceptions about what they are and aren’t allowed to use with what they find or put out on the Internet, and the real damage it’s causing businesses.
I interviewed Rebecca Jeschke, Media Relations Director for the digital civil liberties group, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Rebecca shared with me how they fight for people’s rights with both creating videos and expression of freedom speech, and important information for all online video creators on what they need to know about how to deal ...
Many online video producers and marketers today have lots misconceptions about what whether or not they have legal permission to record video of someone and put it up online. If that describes you, then you might be interested in my interview today with Intellectual Property and Internet Media Attorney Mark J. Rosenberg, about getting proper ...
Zediva is still making waves, and still streaming one DVD in one player to one customer. In recent court document filings, the streaming DVD rental service (for lack of a better description) blasted back at the MPAA, essentially telling them to take off the blinders and open their eyes to the wonderment of the Internet. ...
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) President Greg Lukianoff has protested Muskegon County’s felony criminal charge of child pornography brought against 21-year old YouTube performer Evan Emory as “an overreaction and “at odds with Supreme Court precedent.” Greg helped explain why local parents and prosecutors reacted as strongly did to the YouTube video, so ...
Legal assistance for online video marketing and other professionals is becoming increasingly important in our litigious society. So why are most attorneys and law firms still resistant to publicly sharing legal information with online video? Entertainment law and new media attorney Gordon P. Firemark addresses these concerns, and explains why there are more forward-thinking lawyers ...
Controversial YouTube performer Evan Emory is back on YouTube. The singer gave his first public music performance yesterday on a local radio station, sharing new songs he composed while in Muskegon County Jail in Michigan. The video has now appeared on his own YouTube channel and is being publicized on the radio station’s Website.
The government is continuing its fight against online piracy, this time attempting to clarify a law to include specific mentions of video streaming. Currently, it's a felony to download pirated content, or to reproduce it... or sell it. But there's no specific language regarding video streams. Now, however, a Senate panel has OK'd a bill ...
I have some pretty strong opinions about online video captions--in short, I think every video creator should be using them, and for a variety of reasons. I'm actually working on an entire article about that subject, but couldn't ignore the news announcement over the weekend that Netflix and Time Warner have both been sued (in ...
Should the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which has been the basis for rulings around copyright infringement with online video and all other Internet content, have a 2011 makeover? I interviewed New York intellectual property attorney Robert W. Clarida about some of the problems with the existing 13-year old standing federal law, and who’s ...
When it comes to video marketing, there are two legal defenses in U.S. for using somebody else’s copyrighted work in your video without first receiving expressed permission, those being parody and fair use. In my continued “Is My Video Legal?” video series, I feature a special Q&A between a video marketer and a lawyer to ...
Producing webcasts or online video series for marketing purposes can be a dream come true for creative types who love working with like-minded people. If you want to use professional talent or popular music within these webcasts, however, it can quickly turn into a nightmare if you don’t take into consideration the “show business” unions ...
Fair use is so complex and nuanced, that even most professional video creators would be hard pressed to explain it succinctly and clearly. Copyright law is just... complicated, like most laws. To their credit, YouTube has tried to offer resources on multiple occasions to help their users better understand the intricate rules and guidelines for ...
There is a huge problem in this country, and it's this: unauthorized use of copyrighted content in online videos. Every day there are millions of videos uploaded to YouTube that contain images and audio that someone else owns. It's illegal, and some companies are going to great lengths to stop it. Like Major League Baseball--an ...
What if your idea for a marketing video involved creating a fictional character, telling fictitious stories, about real people? Could you be opening yourself up to a lawsuit, even if the purpose is to be entertaining and humorous? We had one of our own followers of ReelSEO ask us just that, and we got his ...
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