All Posts Tagged With: "copyright"

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Center For Social Media Releases Video About Copyright and Fair Use Laws

About a year ago, I did a post about the Center For Social Media (at American University) and how they were making copyright and fair use laws understandable for bloggers, podcasters and Internet user’s in general.
Well, they’ve recently put together a video that covers these topics in a little more detail.  You can see the [...]

June 19th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Judge Says Woman Can Sue Over YouTube Flap

In February 2007, Stephanie Lenz made a 29-second video of her 13-month old son frolicking to the Prince song Let’s Go Crazy.
She posted it on YouTube.  Four months later, Universal Music Group (owner’s of the rights to the song) ordered YouTube to take the video down for copyright infringement.
Stephanie Lenz then sued Univerisal Music Group, [...]

August 25th, 2008 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
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Copyright Laws and Online Video

If the massive copyright-infringement lawsuits brought against YouTube have taught us anything, it’s that the wild-west days of the Internet are over. Actually, the previous music-industry lawsuits should have taught us that…but I guess we’re slow learners.
These days, if you use copyrighted material in your online videos…and you don’t have a license or explicit [...]

July 30th, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued