For those who were not able to attend WordCamp Dallas but would like to see my session from the event, my video is up and available for anyone interested in the topic of content theft to view.

If you’ve ever wondered what is in those terms of service most people click straight past, this is your chance. I take a look at the TOS on seven different video sharing sites and break down what rights they claim in your work, who has those rights and how to exit the agreement.

To offer a quick update on yesterday’s post regarding The Richter Scales’ “Here Comes Another Bubble” video, the video has been reuploaded to YouTube and is now available for viewing again.
The new version of the video, which The Richter Scales refer to as version 1.1, not only adds a full credit roll, but a link [...]

Typically, I don’t comment on ongoing controversies, especially ones that I’ve already talked about on the Copyright 2.0 Show.
However, the Lane Hartwell controversy does not seem prepared to end. With the flames already fanned by some of the most popular bloggers, the debate rages on as Hartwell released her much-anticipated statement yesterday and the division [...]

In continuing the work that I began last week on the Stopping Internet Plagiarism section of the site, I’ve updated two more chapters of the work, Contacting the Plagiarist and Contacting the Host.
In both cases the updates were relatively minor in nature but both chapters required some work to bring them back up to code. [...]

I’ve threatened over the past few episodes of the Copyright 2.0 Show to leap into video casting and today I make something of an inglorious debut in it.
What I’ve done is recorded and uploaded a modified version of a presentation that I gave to the Virtual Assistant Revolution group in September that goes over the [...]

On the surface, YouTube seems like a natural haven for fair use. The entire system is designed from the ground up to allow the posting of short, low resolution video clips and then embed those clips into blogs and other Web sites for commentary and criticism.
When you look up the four factors of fair use, [...]