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.
I interviewed David Michail, an attorney specializing in media, entertainment, and technology law. David talks with me about some of the important legal issues today for video marketers publishing on YouTube and online video in user-generated content, copyright, defamation, trademark, and otherwise objectionable material.
YouTube has been pretty good about fighting copyright violations. At least, I think so. They've worked hard to remove videos containing unauthorized clips, and they created ContentID to go an extra step in scoping out violations on behalf of certain partners. They even ban user accounts that have three uncontested copyright violations. But apparently... it's ...
Muskegon Community College appear to have put a lockdown on all campus events with any relation to their former student, Evan Emory, who today started his 60-day jail sentence for posting a video on YouTube. My efforts along with local residents to schedule an educational seminar for the students at the college were blocked by ...
In Part 2 of my 2-part interview with entertainment and media lawyer Gordon P. Firemark, he shares with us about how to get and give proper permissions and licensing for online videos, as well as how to have your attorney negotiate deals and draft contracts with online video in your business.
I interviewed Entertainment Lawyer Gordon Firemark, producer and host of Entertainment Law Update, and author of “The Podcast, Blog, and New Media Producer’s Legal Survival Guide.” In Part 1 of our 2-part Interview, Gordon shares with me some of the more important legal issues today with online video, and offers some solid professional advice for ...
Emory Emory gives a webcam interview to ReelSEO, and shares new information about his own YouTube debacle that got him convicted of a felony charge and 60 days jail time. Emory apologized for his actions as deceitful and wrong, and says he wants to make amends with serving jail time and doing community service. But ...
Websites all over the Internet are inviting you to link and embed your YouTube video on blog sites, “share” it with Facebook friends, or “tweet” it to your Twitter followers. But what are the legal limitations on what you can share and where you can post it? I did a web video recording of an ...
There's a new Netflix in town, and it's called Zediva. After a year in beta, the service is now live to the public. DVD rentals are only $1 each in many cases (though some cost more) and Zediva can deliver movies as soon as the title goes on sale to the public--while Netflix typically has ...
Evan Emory may soon hold the distinction of being America’s first “YouTube criminal.” Yesterday in a Michigan court in Muskegon county he pleaded “no contest” to a reduced felony charge of "unlawful posting of an internet message with aggravating circumstances” – a plea deal to the child pornography charges that the district prosecutor and parents ...
Attention all you serious video marketers and producers! The Practising Law Institute is holding a 3-day conference March 14-16th, Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2011, which will be covering the important legal issues that you need to know that affecting the video marketplace and your industry – including talent agreements, licensing recordings, right of ...
I will be presenting at the Search Marketing Expo – SMX West Conference, being held at the San Jose Convention Center from March 8-10. I will be on the panel, “New Tools & Techniques For YouTube Success,” Wednesday March 9th from 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm, and presenting on the most important legal issues and ...
I interviewed Amy Adler, New York University law professor and researcher on First Amendment Law, Pornography and Art, and Feminism Jurisprudence; and get her own opinion on the Evan Emory criminal case over a YouTube video. I asked Amy, can a coherent legal argument be made to show that clipping footage of children into a ...
Criminal trial attorney and former prosecutor David T. Schlendorf gives an exclusive interview to ReelSEO on the criminal case of Evan Emory, the 21-year old West Michigan college student being tried in court with manufacturing child abusive material and posting it on YouTube. Schlendorf said that Emory's actions do not fall under any example of ...
Today the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office in Michigan formally charged 21-year old Evan Emory with one felony count of “child abuse as a commercial activity." His crime: Posting a dubbed video of himself staging a sexually explicit song performance to first graders, and posting the edited video on YouTube. The charge, which is essentially, under ...
I interviewed Ravenna Schools Superintendent Jon VanLoon about the criminal case of former student and infamous YouTube personality, Evan Emory. VanLoon shared with me what really happened between Emory and the school kids he recorded for his now-infamous YouTube video, which has resulted in formal charges of criminal sexual abuse. VanLoon also talks about the ...
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