Everything you need to know to keep your content, videos and blogs out of court WITHOUT hiring a lawyer…

  • Have you ever wondered if you could play music in the background of your Web show?
  • If you could show clips from a movie in your mash-up parody?
  • If you could use B-roll from another creator in your how-to video?

If you are producing video for the Web you need to know the answers to these questions to stay out of court.  In this eBook on “Keeping You and Your Content out of Court” you’ll learn what dozens of leading copyright attorneys and intellectual property experts share with their clients about the Fair Use doctrine to protect them. That includes:

  • The Four Fair Use Factors
  • The Transformative Test
  • The Difference Between Parody and Satire
  • The Four-Pronged Test
  • Understanding Marketplace Harm
  • Is News Exempt?

This eBook will also walk you through the seminal fair use cases over the last 35 years in an easy-to-understand fashion so you can learn how to create, edit and evaluate your own work to stay within the fair use harbor.

You’ll get all this high-value information for just $34.97 here on my site – much less than the cost of an attorney’s time and certainly a whole lot less than the cost of court.

Excerpt

Your work needs to be non-competitive. Competitive work that borrows from another work is not looked kindly upon. Does that mean you can never quote another work, use a clip of another show, or include an audio snippet from another podcast or radio show? Of course not. But you have to use the material in such a way so as not to compromise the commercial ventures of another creator.

In a lawsuit, the courts would consider how much you used of the copyrighted work and whether your work infringed on the commercial value of the copyrighted work. If your work diminished the money-making potential of the work you’re quoting from, the courts won’t be happy. Let’s understand specifically how to use someone else’s work so you won’t wind up in a position where a judge is deciding what you can and can’t produce.

“New Media Minute eBooks” offer essential insight to help you grow your business in the digital era. These short, high-value, high-impact eBooks cover the most important topics for new media producers, brand executives, independent programmers and others to create successful business in the new media era. The “New Media Minute eBooks” are made possible with the generous support of Hitviews, an online content studio that matches advertisers with Web stars.