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.

Right of Publicity – Most Overlooked Legal Issue With Online Video

ReelSEO talks to Mark Rosenberg about the Right of publicity with online video. Right of publicity is one of the most often overlooked legal issues with online video and online video producers need to learn about it.

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 ...

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. It is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making ...

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 ...

Online Video and The Fair Use Doctrine - Interview With Daisy Whitney

http://www.reelseo.com/fair-use-daisy-1235/ Fair Use in Online Video - What are the important legal issues as they relate to the "Fair Use" doctrine with online video and digital media?

"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 ...

Online Video Regulation Structure Directive Outlined By UK Government

The Government has published details of how it will ensure that the UK complies with the European Union's Audio-Visual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, which extends regulation to television-like programmes regardless of the medium used to show them.   The Directive means that programmes distributed on ...

Does YouTube Not Give A S**t About Ethical Business People?

Months ago I warned of an increasing number of online video solution providers copycatting the YouTube logo to create "initial-interest confusion" with consumers. Has YouTube finally started cracking down on this deceptive practice in the industry of video and SEO? Or are they  continuing to ...

Fighting Video Harassment and Video Cyber-bullying

Is someone using video to harass, defame, or threaten you online? If so, what can you do about it? One such person talks with ReelSEO about her recent experience, how she was able to get it stopped, and shares her tips on how to fight ...

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 ...

Choosing An Online Video Marketing Attorney

Attorney David Adler, Partner with The Adler Law Group in Chicago, shares his expertise with ReelSEO on what criteria companies who are publishing and promoting video online should look for in choosing legal counsel, to help them protect their assets.

Online Video and The Law (for Video Search Marketing Dummies)

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell hosts this special podcast highlighting legal issues involved with marketing video online.. Grant shares his own research and interviews with several intellectual property attorney, who are also all speakers at search marketing conferences.

Online Video, Search Marketers and Legal Issues – Interview With Deborah Wilcox

In our continued legal series, ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Deborah Wilcox, partner with the law firm Baker Hostetler and co-chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Deborah is one of the longest-standing speakers for search engine marketing conferences on legal issues, having spoken at ...

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 ...