In this interesting follow-up story by ARS, Viacom, owners of Comedy Central, support the fair use of video clips by bloggers. In an earlier report by Hollywood Reporter, it appeared Viacom was going to go after bloggers who posted slips of the Daily Show or Colbert Report.
But this was wrong. According to […]
If you blog, podcast, or otherwise provide endorsements or testimonials of free products you received for this word of mouth marketing, you could be sued $11,00 for not disclosing this connection. According to a 10/05 Press Release by the Federal Trade Commission, the rules for bloggers and others who use “word of mouth” marketing have […]
Copyright issues are particularly important to consider when constructing websites, developing a blog, or creating new media. Copyright comes into play in interesting ways online and it is an issue I have been meaning to go into more in this blog. I’ll even do a podcast episode or two on it.
For many […]
Cosmo apparently supports music piracy! Or it is fair use? Thanks to Podcasting News for posting about this Cosmos suggestion of asking friends to burn you a CD of music you’ll like (and returning the favor) because “Having new tunes is ideal, but shelling out the cash to buy said music hurts.” The […]
Panel C.1; Fair Use and Fair Play: Copyright and Legality Issues in the Classroom
Speaker #1, “Am I Going to Get Sued For This?” Fair Use and Fear in the Digital Classroom”; Quinn Warnick, Iowa State University
Starts w/ three scenarios
States that educators are particularity vulnerable to the law
Law is woefully inadequate
Goes into w/ the code: […]
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