The Center for Social Media has released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.
If you have a vlog, video podcast or post videos to sites like YouTube, knowing about fair use could help keep you from getting sued.
Here’s a summary of their recommendations:
The Associated Press, after sending cease and desist letters to the social media site Drudge Retort, plans to release guidelines that explain how much of its articles and media bloggers and Web sites can copy within fair use rights:
The A.P.’s effort to impose some guidelines on the free-wheeling blogosphere, where extensive quoting and even copying [...]
The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) has published an excellent primer on fair use and copyright in the context of new media.
These are topics that podcasters, indie video publishers and bloggers continually struggle with. A recent example is the controversy over the Richter Scales unauthorized use of Lane Hartwell’s photos in a video for one [...]
The Lane Hartwell copyright controversy has led to a great deal of debate over the role of copyright and fair use in Internet videos.
Hartwell is a professional photographer that publishes her images on Flickr, with all rights reserved. When she saw one of her photos being used without permission or credit in the video Here [...]
Photographer Lane Hartwell is tired of people stealing her photos and reusing them without her permission.
She’s published her images, like a lot of us, on Flickr, with all rights reserved. Unlike most of us, though, Hartwell is a freelance photographer and a regular contributor to Wired News. Her work has featured in publications around the [...]
Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an economic study released today by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA).
The study, which was was conducted in accordance with a World Intellectual Property Organization methodology, suggests that [...]