Copyright infringement is still one of the biggest headaches that video hosting sites deal with on a regular basis–you might have heard about a long legal battle that YouTube spent millions to win.  Most video portals, like YouTube, have gone to great lengths to demonstrate a willingness and ability to help fight copyright infringement by

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UFC Sues UStream & Justin.TV Over Live Streaming Copyright Infringement

Imagine that you needed to hire an attorney and you decided to search out one online.

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Video Marketing Tip for Attorneys – Offer Honest, Useful Information

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Chicago’s high-profile “new media” attorney Daliah Saper about some of the important issues that video marketers and other professionals need to be aware of if they are using (or plan to use) other people’s music in their own online video pieces, and for their own professional gain.

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Understanding Legal Issues with Copyrighted Music in Video

comScore has released their March 2010 Video Metrix numbers and one of the most fascinating things is that YouTube viewers are watching, on average, 96 videos in the month. That would be 3.2 videos per day, every day.

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YouTube Almost Hit 100 Videos per Viewer Last Month

YouTube has begun rolling out a new version of its video player.  The new look is designed to promote the video content itself and move the player more into a supporting role. In a general sense, the interface and controls have been redesigned and cleaned up.  Specifically… the big change is the time line ticker, which

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YouTube Gives Their Video Player A Makeover, Again

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell asked Marvel Comics creator icon Stan “The Man” Lee, the keynote speaker for the 2nd day of the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, what does he think about others making videos with Marvel characters and posting them online for their own business or amateur ventures?

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Do Online Video Mashups of Marvel Comics’ Characters Fall Under Fair Use? Stan Lee talks!

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell talks with attorney Mark Rosenberg about the recent international media attention and public outcry over an animated cartoon posted online by the military wing of the political group Hamas, and why even “psychological warfare” with online video is and should be protected free speech in this country under the First Amendment.

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What the Hamas “Online Video Threat” Can Teach Us About Freedom Of Speech

PC World has discovered that YouTube rather stealthily opened up their official rental service, which appears to be called “Store.” You may remember some news about them testing a rental service earlier this year.  It seems the testing is over, and the Store is now open to the public. You can now rent episodes of television

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YouTube’s Rental Store Is Now Open To The Public

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell talks with intellectual property attorney Mark Rosenberg, about why the multitude of video clips on YouTube taking a scene from Constantin Films’ 2004 film, Der Untergang (“Downfall”), don’t meet the criteria for fair use under U.S. law.

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Hitler Memes on YouTube Aren’t Legally Protected Parodies

Sometimes the world just seems upside-down.  Case in point:  YouTube has begun the daunting task of removing all the clips of the movie Downfall (the now-infamous Hitler-getting-mad clip) due to a copyright claim from Constantin Films. That is exactly the opposite of what most online marketing consultants would advise Constantin Films to do.  Why?  Because of

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IP Extremism in Action – YouTube to Remove Hitler Memes