Many companies at some point have innocently uploaded a photo on their social media page that they didn’t own, and shouldn’t have used, to the extent that it’s almost been seen as an online cultural norm. But this is changing. As technology gets more sophisticated, and people become more aware of the issues around copyright [...]
I’m a firm believer that it’s little use inflicting a punishment if the wrongdoer doesn’t understand why they did wrong. Or even that a punishment has been inflicted at all. My view is backed up in the world of children’s moderation where best practice is tell the young users why they broke the sites terms [...]
71 days and counting to the very first ‘Social Olympics’ here in London. As a social media marketing professional, do you know yet what you can and can’t say about the Olympics? In last week’s blog we looked at the UK legislation that social media professionals need to be aware of when tweeting/posting/blogging about this huge [...]
As the torch is lit and we approach the 30th Olympiad in London, the excitement is unmistakeable. Add to that the fact that this is being dubbed the ‘first social Olympics’ and we’re positively abuzz. It may be hard to believe, but just 4 years ago there was no official integration of the Beijing Olympics [...]
Photo: Alamy The Hargreaves Report – aka the UK Digital IP Review - was requested by David Cameron amid concerns that current legislation was outdated in the internet age. Its author, Professor Ian Hargreaves of Cardiff University, makes 10 major recommendations, which he says will: “set out how the intellectual property framework can promote innovation [...]
By coincidence, two articles on the issue of copyright in journalism have landed in my inbox today: one by Joel Postman in socialmediatoday concerning the legal and ethical issues of live tweeting from conferences and events (where Twitterers effectively publish a portion of the speaker’s presentation), and the other From Steve Myers at Poynter Online, [...]