Remixing Copyrighted Video – Fair Use or Infringement?

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell asks Harvard Law Professor and political activist Lawrence Lessig, what’s in it for businesses to be more lax in their enforcement of copyrighted video based on fair use culture?

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Remixing Copyrighted Video – Fair Use or Infringement?

Video File Container Formats, Compression & Codecs – Oh My!

My background is in Internet marketing, project management and SEO.  So, when I first took the dive into online video, I quickly found that there was a steep learning curve for me – especially with regard to understanding new terms like codecs, video file formats, compression and the like. At ReelSEO, Ive had several readers ask

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Video File Container Formats, Compression & Codecs – Oh My!

Streaming Production & Flash Delivery Workshop – March 23rd

Are you producing streaming video and wondering if your procedures and work flow maximize quality and efficiency? Perhaps you’re on the distribution side and need to learn how to produce a Flash Player, or install or manage the Flash Media Server

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Streaming Production & Flash Delivery Workshop – March 23rd

Harnessing Off-Site Videos to Increase E-Commerce Visibility

Videos’ impact on search rankings has been discussed here rather extensively in the past.  A few months ago we  interviewed Search Engine Marketing and Optimization veteran Bruce Clay who helps clarify the importance of on-site videos for search rankings: “In the case of video, we believe that as one of the more important engagement objects, Google has actually started to build it into the algorithm.  To us, that means if your website has engagement objects on it,  video or mp3…  it is going to be received by the algorithm better and your site will actually have an opportunity to rank better

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Harnessing Off-Site Videos to Increase E-Commerce Visibility

Legal Online Video & Fair Use – Sharing Versus Ownership

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews interview Dr. Shay David, VP of Business and Community Development and co-founder of the open source video platform and network Kaltura, and founding member of the Open Video Alliance, about what he considers to be the most important legal issues with open standards and technologies with online video today

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Legal Online Video & Fair Use – Sharing Versus Ownership

Defamation and Libel in Online Video – How to Protect Yourself

Grant Crowell of ReelSEO answers this week’s submitted legal video marketing question: Is it legal for someone to make a video to purposely ruin a company or person’s business reputation? Learn how to best handle and protect yourself from defamatory online video, legally and professionally

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Defamation and Libel in Online Video – How to Protect Yourself

How To Download YouTube Videos & When It Might Be Okay

Is it wrong to download a YouTube video? I guess that depends completely on who you ask.  I’m sure YouTube would tell you that it is.  In fact, they do – their terms of service says the following, in Section 5: “Your Use of Content on the Site”: B.) You may access User Submissions for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the YouTube Website. You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission… …E.) You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Content other than expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Submissions of third parties obtained through the Website for any commercial purposes.” So YouTube is pretty clearly against it.  And we all know that you’ve never broken the Terms of Service agreement for an online service before, right

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How To Download YouTube Videos & When It Might Be Okay

Anatomy of a Hands-on SEO Site Audit – Part 1

Welcome to part one in a series of articles on the anatomy of a hands-on SEO site audit!  This was originally just going to be one article.  But then my book-length article nature came up squarely against the awareness that true site audits can be extremely complex.

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Anatomy of a Hands-on SEO Site Audit – Part 1

How to Get Banned on Social Media Networks

You’ve lost your account…it’s gone.

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How to Get Banned on Social Media Networks

Are Public Figures “Fair Use” in Online Video Marketing?

I interview intellectual property and e-commerce attorney David M. Adler, and explores the question: Can you feature someone in a video advertisement simply because you have video footage (or can access video footage) of them using or talking about your product, service, or brand? Also, what is the most legally safe way to feature a video of a public figure for your own business purposes

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