Podcasting Law

Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week . The change will apply to all text and multimedia content, including video, images, and audio now licensed under GFDL 1.2 or later versions and will increase "the compatibility and availability of free content," according to the WMF site. Sponsor Although the proposal has not yet been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees, chairman ... Read Full Story

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Welcome to the 4th of July episode of Rules for the Revolution! Click on this link to listen to Episode 022 or subscribe and listen through iTunes . SHOW NOTES Host: Colette Vogele Guest: Alex Curtis , Director of Policy and New Media at Public Knowledge Alex is Public Knowledge’s Director of Policy and New Media. Before his position with PK, he interned for Senate Senator Mike DeWine — making DeWine the second U.S. Senator on the Internet by one day. He was asked to return in subsequent years and in addition to creating websites for both Senators DeWine and George Voinovich, he also ... Read Full Story

Will Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, adopt the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license? The Wikimedia community is voting to determine the course of licensing of this free content. The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the Wikimedia community to vote on the proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA), while retaining dual licensing with the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This is a step to collect, develop and disseminate educational material, and make it available to people everywhere, free of charge! Creative Commons says This migration would be a huge boost for the free ... Read Full Story

Finding good content to use in your podcast and individually negotiating permission to use it can be a time-consuming task and may also be daunting if you are unsure if the rights-holder will agree to authorize the use of their content in your podcast. One way to reduce the time and hassle of individually seeking permission from each rights-holder is to search for Creative Commons licensed material. CC-licensed material is “pre-cleared” for use in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license. We explain at section 1.2.2.5 - “You Are Using Creative Commons-Licensed Or 'Podsafe' Content” - about the different types of ... Read Full Story

I’m back with a few new episodes! Click on this link to listen to Episode 21 or subscribe and listen through iTunes . SHOW NOTES Host: Colette Vogele Guest: Jeffrey Hermes Jeffrey Hermes’ practice ranges from advising media and corporate clients on content liability issues, to rapid-response intervention in high-profile litigation on behalf of various publishing and media clients, to complex corporate and intellectual property litigation. He has extensive experience in representing print, broadcast and Internet media clients in First Amendment and access-related matters in state and federal court, including successfully unsealing impounded government records, representing reporters being pressured to disclose their confidential sources ... Read Full Story

I have spent considerable time researching the best sites to find online free images/stock images, along with their copyright/ Creative Commons licences. Some of these sites will probably already be familiar to you but others new, as they were to me. I hope you find this of use, as it makes the time spent all worthwhile. Sites are listed in alphabetical order. Free Images BurningWell - a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. Donations welcomed - anyone have any Melbourne images they could upload, Melbourne is not represented there at all! Waterlillies - Fiji Flickr Usage: image pages display their Creative ... Read Full Story