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How to Keep Your Videos Copyright Clean

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Daisy Whitney Customized Her Hair Based on Viewer Feedback

Daisy Whitney Customized Her Hair Based on Viewer Feedback

New Media Minute‘s Daisy Whitney has published an eBook titled “Keeping You and Your Content Out of Courts.” WillVideoforFood readers can enjoy 50% off the $34.97 by using the promotional code “Hitviews.” (I work with Hitviews to connect advertisers and online-video audiences, and its a sponsor of the book. Stand by for a new Hitviews.com redesign).

We all need to keep our videos from violating copyright laws, and if the $17.48 price saves you 45 seconds of an attorney’s time… it’s paid for itself already.

Keeping Your Content out of court
Some of the book’s topics that we discuss here at WVFF without any authority:

  • The Four Fair Use Factors
  • The Transformative Test
  • The Difference Between Parody and Satire
  • The Four-Pronged Test
  • Understanding Marketplace Harm
  • Is News Exempt?

 

 

 

 

For a free excerpt and to learn more, check out her eBook page. Just get your 3D glasses ready for her patented pink and gray branding.

Online Video

Personalized Video Recommendations

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Daisy Whitney provides a “New Media Minute” (TVWeek) that excites me about a day when I watch a video, and I’m offered a “viewers who liked x also liked y.” It works on Amazon.com to increase purchases by existing customers, and it can enhance the video-viewing experience. This functionality is available to those who customize their YouTube homepage, and could be something that helps Strike.tv (with its diverse portfolio of shows) move audiences from one show to a related one. These kinds of user-experience services will make online-video average sessions longer, and more satisfying.

In this episode (embedded below), you’ll see a snipet of YouTube filmmaker Chuck Potter, whose “I Want My Three Minutes Back” should be mandatory viewing for aspiring video creators. It takes the journey into the transformation of several YouTube creators like myself. I learned a lot about the personal and professional challenges of “surviving” on YouTube, and a bit about myself. Potter is shopping the film to film festivals, and I hope he’ll one day offer “chunks” of it on YouTube and perhaps a DVD.

Potter’s primary ingredients for success: Find a niche, and remain persistent. Persistence is the key ingredient, and that requires following one’s creative impulse, responding to the audience preferences, and constant “Madonna-like” reinvention.