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New Media Rights: Know your online rights from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Target audience: Online publishers, nonprofits, cause organizations, bloggers, podcasters. If you work in online publishing, sooner or later you’ll bump up against the laws surrounding the Internet and intellectual property. Enter New Media Rights, a San Diego-based nonprofit that provides assistance regarding new […]
Law
The rules around capturing public performances
Can you shoot video or take a photo of a street artist in public — and post it on your blog? Are you allowed to shoot video or take a photo or record music of a musician or street artist performing in a public place and post it online? Attorney Colette Vogele of the […]
Do video producers need a publicity release waiver?
Here’s a 3-minute video interview with Colette Vogele, an intellectual property attorney in San Francisco, regarding whether video producers and video bloggers need to obtain a right of publicity release form from the subjects of their videos if they plan on using the video commercially. For many purposes online, nonprofits fall into the “commercial use” […]
Freedom of information: It’s for everyone
Open records, FOIA Act are pillars of journalism — and a free society Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, journalists, NGOs, general public. Guest post by Dan Gillmor Director, Center for Citizen Media “Freedom of information” is not just a phrase. It is a pillar of an open and free society. Nowhere has that pillar been […]
How to prevent against online libel and defamation
The Bill of Rights A brief guide for citizen journalists and bloggers Target audience: Journalists, bloggers, nonprofits, cause organizations, NGOs, general public. Guest post by Mitch Ratcliffe RatcliffeBlog There is much that bloggers can learn from journalists, who have learned how to cause the most trouble possible without landing in jail over the course of […]
