Featured Segment: Art Neill Returns to Discuss
New Media Rights Innovative Fair Use App
To Help Filmmakers And Online Video Creators
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New Media Rights advises filmmakers, creators, and technology startups about copyright, fair use, and when they can and can’t reuse content. New Media Rights staff and interns have filtered down many years of experience to produce an app that can help individuals better understand: 1) when they can reuse content, 2) how their choices affect a fair use argument, and; 3) when it’s time to talk to a lawyer. While the app isn’t intended to provide automated answers on specific fair use questions, it is helpful as a tool to help folks make better decisions about when and how to reuse content..
You can check out the new app at http://newmediarights.org/fairus
Art is the founder of New Media Rights, and practices public interest law in the areas of internet, intellectual property, and communications law. @ArtNeill @NewMediaRights
NEWS UPDATES
Third Circuit Affirms FTC’s Cyber Security Enforcement Role
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Charlton Floate (UK) Pleads Guilty to Hacking FBI and UK Home Office
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SHOUT OUTS and COMMEMORATIONS
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Best Wishes to President Carter in Battling Cancer
In light of President Carter’s announcement, I published “The Carter Presidency Revisited” in Huffington Post, highlighting the President’s many overlooked accomplishments.
Krakatoa’s 132nd Anniversary
From Time Magazine’s Top 10 Famous Volcanos: In 1883, the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupted with 13,000 times the power of an atomic bomb. The sound of the spewing smoke and rock was reportedly heard thousands of miles away, as far as islands off the eastern coast of Africa. Hundreds in a nearby Sumatran town died almost instantly when flaming ash incinerated their homes, and many more were washed away by subsequent megatsunamis. An estimated 36,000 or so perished in total.
World’s Most Famous Food Fight
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