Tag Archives: Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Legal concepts every social media marketer should know: Part IV – User Generated Content (Content Treasure Trove v. Legal Pandora’s Box)

Photo of Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr.By Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr. on Posted in Marketing, Online Privacy, Social Media
Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published on September 30, 2013, courtesy of iMedia Connection’s Blog. It is repurposed with permission. This post is co-authored by Alan M. Pate The most valuable resource in a marketing campaign can often be the very audience you are trying to reach. “User generated content,” or UGC, be … Continue Reading

Viacom v. YouTube Postscript–Copyright Infringement, Social Media and the Blurred Lines of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s Safe Harbors

Photo of BakerHostetlerBy BakerHostetler on Posted in Social Media
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Bloomberg Law Reports ®. It is republished with permission. By Fernando A. Bohorquez Jr. and David M. McMillan, BakerHostetler More than a year after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s seminal opinion in Viacom v. YouTube, the contours of copyright infringement liability in the social … Continue Reading
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