01-27-14 CLE: Social Media Legal Issues for Traditional Media Companies

Jan 27, 2014 06:00pm -
Jan 27, 2014 08:15pm

Event Description

Monday, January 27, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m.

Social Media Legal Issues for Traditional Media Companies

 

The FCBA Intellectual Property, Mass Media, and Video Programming and Distribution Committees will hold a CLE on Monday, January 27 from 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. entitled “Social Media Legal Issues for Traditional Media Companies.”  This program will be held at Wiley Rein LLP, 1776 K Street, NW, Main Conference Center.

 

As media companies integrate “new media,” including social media, as integral aspects of their business, and as content shifts between “traditional media” and new media platforms, lawyers representing these companies need to understand the legal issues and pitfalls that may await them in the online world, and the policy issues that may affect the rules of the road.  In this CLE, we will go beyond the rules of the FCC to explore both the basic legal issues involving the intersection of new and social media and traditional media and the policy issues that may affect these relationships in the future.  Two panels will discuss these issues:

 

AGENDA

 

6:00 – 6:05 p.m.         Welcome and Introduction

 

6:05 – 7:05 p.m.         Legal Issues with Social Media – Nuts and Bolts

 

As the lines between old and new media blur, lots of legal issues arise.  In this first panel, we will discuss the nuts and bolts issues that many media companies face in trying to understand this intersection.  When can companies take material from social media or other Internet sites, and use it on their traditional media platforms?  Can you take videos from YouTube and feature them in your 11:00 news?  Can you take a photo from a website and use it to illustrate a story on your broadcast station’s website?  What liability do you have for posting material on Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites?  Who owns what you post on social media sites?  Can you encourage your audience to post photos or videos on your website or social media pages?  What liability do you have for their posts?  These and other issues will be explored.

 

Moderator:

David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP

 

Speakers:

David Wittenstein, Cooley LLP

James Rosenfeld, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Others to be announced

 

7:05 – 7:15 p.m.         Break             

 

7:15 – 8:15 p.m.         Copyright Policy Panel

 

These nuts and bolts issues give rise to broader policy issues.  Should the concept of statutory damages still apply, when the unauthorized posting by a station intern of a single photo on a station’s website can result in hundreds of thousands of dollars of damages, even if the photo was viewed by only five people?  Does the Internet make the concept of statutory damages obsolete?  Should there be a reform of the protections accorded under the DMCA “safe harbor” provisions to website operators for the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials by users of that site?  Should the government create new registries of copyrighted material so that users can find the copyright owners to get permission to use copyrighted works?  Should there be an extension of the concept of a “statutory license” to other copyrighted materials that are used on the Internet?  If so, where should that apply?  How can the average person know when they are violating the copyright laws?  What can the government and copyright owners do to inform users of the limitations of copyright and other IP laws?

 

Moderator:

Jim Burger, Thompson Coburn LLP

 

Speakers:

Matt Schruers, CCIA

Joe Keeley, House Judiciary Committee (invited)

Others to be announced


Event Type:Educational
Category:CLE Seminar
Early registration ends on Oct 22, 2013.
Regular registration starts on Oct 23, 2013 and ends on Nov 17, 2013.
Late registration starts on Nov 18, 2013.

 

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 Government Academic Attorney
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 Private Sector Attorney
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