On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:04:32 +0100, JD Lasica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the latest entry: > > http://www.ourmedia.org/node/176541 Good stuff. As usual: If you're outside the US (and in this case California) check your local legislation - it is likely to differ on several points. One question. He writes: "(c) There's an exception to the Right of Publicity for "any news, public affairs, or sports broadcast or account, or any political campaign." To my knowledge, this has not been tested legally, but if your blog is considered "news reporting" then you'd fall w/i that exception, or, if the street musician is a political candidate you're definitely in the clear." The same exception is found in Danish legislation. There it talks about "day events" - reports on what happened on the day that are newsworthy. You have very wide rights as a reporter in regards to what you can report, concerts, speeches and other public performances are no problem. But... the exception disappears once the event is no longer a day event. So you can report and show parts of a concert in the evening news on the day of the concert, but you can't show the same clip a week later with artist permission because the event is no longer a newsworthy day event. The archiving nature of blogs means that the exception is virtually useless for bloggers. I'm curious if the US exception has similar limitations? - Andreas -- <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
