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Best Practices for Creative Commons attributions - how to attribute works you reuse under a Creative Commons license

Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 12:49

Find out how to site or source creative commons work. Creative commons work allows you to share, remix and reuse legally, just make sure to check out what license it is under.

“creative commons” by Flikr user libraryman used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

Sign our petition to support the Open College Textbook Act of 2009

Submitted by New Media Rights on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 13:45

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Please sign this letter to your Congressmen encouraging Congress to support openly licensed textbooks by voting for the Open College Textbooks Act of 2009. You can learn more about the Open College Textbooks Act right here on New Media Rights!

Youtube puts ads on videos without permission

Submitted by art neill on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 15:57

Youtube's filtering technology may be causing advertisements to appear on content without permission. Besides the possible contract violations, the ads create catch 22's when uploading openly licensed (ie. Creative Commonsⁱ) content to Youtube. Youtube could have a significant effect on the future openly licensed video content. This is appears to be a slap in the face to open content and step in the wrong direction.

Applying the YouTube Terms of Service: can I use a YouTube video in a presentation legally?

Submitted by jason eliaser on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 15:17

An analysis and criticism of the YouTube Terms of Service, and a (sortof) answer to the question: "Can I use a YouTube video in a presentation at a business conference?"

New Media Rights files comments in Copyright Office music licensing rulemaking regarding Section 115 Compulsory Licenses

Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:31

On July 16 the Copyrightⁱ Office released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking soliciting commentary on various issues concerning the treatment of digital phonorecord deliveries with relation to compulsory copyright licenses. A major piece of the discussion was the characterization of buffer reproductions of digital sound recordings under copyright law, an issue which could have a profound effect on innovation in new media. We have issued our comments to the Copyright Office and have posted them here.