Legal guide for Canadian podcasters
I haven’t really thought of doing a podcast of my own, too many other little projects on the side right now. But it’s always good to keep up to date on the current copyright playground, if for no other reason than to feel smarter than 95% of our media and politicians!
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2007
Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons Canada has produced a legal guide for Canadian podcasters — here’s how Canadian podcasters can navigate the legal minefields of copyright, libel and so on. Link
See also:
Legal guide for podcasters
EFF legal guide for bloggers
EFF Blogger Legal Guide in your trousers
Legal guide for bloggers covering US Election Day
Bucknell prof Eric Faden has produced the most amazing video mashup I’ve ever seen: “A Fair(y) Use Tale” cuts together thousands of extremely short clips from dozens of Disney cartoons, lifting indivudal words and short phrases to spell out an articulate, funny, and thoroughly educational lesson on how copyright works. This is the most subversive and hilarious use of Disney material I’ve ever seen — and there’s even a really smart chapter about why Faden used Disney material to make his film. This should be required viewing in every K-12 classroom in the country. 
