Weddings aren’t all faith, love and happiness.
There’s usually a bit of abject terror mixed in and something - be it the bridesmaid’s dresses, the flowers or the dj - from hell itself. 
Case in point: A rivalry between two wedding podcasters has devolved into a battle to the death - at least for one of the [...]

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 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 [...]

On Monday, December 31, 2007, President Bush signed into law the “Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007,” which amends the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by:

establishing a definition of “a representative of the news media;”
directing that required attorney fees be paid from an agency’s own appropriation rather than from the Judgment [...]

There’s been a lot of controversy in the last year over the use and reuse of coyrighted content in videos published at sites like YouTube. A new study on copyright and creativity from the Center and American University‚Äôs Washington College of Law may help clear things up.
The study (pdf), Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material [...]

The New York Times has a story today about the case of Stacy Snyder, a 25 year-old mother of two that lost her job over a MySpace photo of her as a “drunken pirate”:
In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly chosen words or even a single photograph posted online in one’s off-hours can [...]

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 [...]

A new book, The Business Podcasting Book (Amazon listing), has been published that features a supergroup of podcasting experts, including Michael Geoghegan, Greg Cangialosi, Ryan Irelan, Tim Bourquin & Colette Vogele.
The book is intended to offer practical experience that you can apply to your own business podcast. It covers planning, content creation, legal considerations, branding, [...]

DJ Premier has announced that the Live From HQ podcasts have been cancelled as the result of threats from the RIAA.
Here’s Live From HQ’s A.C.’s explanation of the situation:
Our site has been hit with a cease & desist order from the RIAA for broadcasting copywritten material. Additionally, our relationship with SIRIUS has been up and down since [...]

A&P has unceremoniously sacked brothers Mark and Matthew D’Avella for using the company facilities to film a faux-gangsta rap video, Produce Paradise. The brothers, aka Double D and Razor Blade, made the video of themselves performing as the Fresh Beets.
Here’s why Double D calls himself “the Vanilla Ice of our generation”:

The brothers were canned [...]