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Social Media & Internet Law - Discussion 3/22/20131
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Introduction Scary things in copyright law Common sense things to care about Questions 3/22/20132 Agenda
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Silicon Valley tech lawyer for >20 years Intellectual property lawyer Patents, copyrights, trade secrets General counsel of a computer game company Currently work in the movie industry Technology research on digital distribution Content protection and piracy prevention 3/22/20133 Introduction
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Fingerprinting videos & songs YouTube Content ID, Shazam, IntoNow, Auditude Vobile, DTecNet, Irdeto Anti-piracy vendors Crawl and download billions of clips and videos Compare to databases of fingerprints Find movie & TV content posted without permission 3/22/20134 Content identification
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UGC/YouTube sharing P2P/BitTorrent downloads Cyberlocker downloads Video streaming sites Links to infringing materials Facebook, Twitter, blog sharing 3/22/20135 Internet Statistics Gathering
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset - $222K/24 songs Joel Tennenbaum - $675K/30 songs Kim Dotcom – New Zealand/Megaupload Aaron Swartz – federal indictment/scholarly articles Bradley Manning – WikiLeaks 3/22/20136 Scary things
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Developed for a prior generation of technology Has not kept up Everybody’s winging it Making up rules as we go Testing them in court Disrupting established practices & business models Risking the consequences 3/22/20137 Copyright law - few clear rules
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Chillingeffects.org eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/IP eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/IP Creativecommons.org google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/f aq/ 3/22/20138 Things to check out
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3/22/20139 Common sense things to care about
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Truth What do artists and companies care about? Their livelihood usually Linking, deep linking Quoting, copying Sampling Facts & ideas Government documents Fair use 3/22/201310 Common sense things to care about
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News reporting, commentary, criticism, research, teaching and scholarship No blanket protection Purpose – public info, commercial, etc. Type of work copied – factual, opinion, expression Extent of copying Effect – economic harm Fuzzy rules, but common sense a good guide 3/22/201311 Fair use – general rule
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Common sense a good guide Music – small samples Harlem Shake lawsuits Video – same, don’t give away the key scene Photos – hard to use without taking the whole thing Photographers care a lot Link to legal sources where possible 3/22/201312 Fair use – fuzzy
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