Posted on January 16, 2008 3:34 pm by Shel Holtz | Brands | Legal
Getting a degree in journalism back in the mid-1970s, when I got mine, required a class in journalism law. I suspect this is still true, but I wonder if a parallel class is required for students in PR, marketing, and communications majors. Based on the speed with which people working in these disciplines jump on lawyers, I would guess not.
I…
Posted on September 25, 2007 5:27 pm by Shel Holtz | Legal | Social Media
When I started my music podcast, I needed an apporpriate image for the podcast blog. I found an ideal image on Flickr accompanied by a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The image of an electric guitar neck now graces the JamJourney blog.
Scouring sites like Flickr, where amateur and professional photographers alike share their work, has become a standard means of…
Posted on July 25, 2007 2:11 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Intranets | Legal
I got this question in an email today regarding blogs on intranets:
One of areas I keep getting pushed back on is the legality of blogs. ???What if someone says something inappropriate about another Colleague??we???ll get sued.???
I know the risk/benefit argument and I know that clearly communicated policies play an important part. But, since I’m not a lawyer, I don’t know if…
Posted on July 15, 2007 10:08 am by Shel Holtz | Legal
The Creative Commons license is useful in a variety of applications. I’ve even started including them in the opening and closing slides of PowerPoint presentations that I make available for download. I don’t make the actual PowerPoint deck available, though. For a number of reasons, I save the deck as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.
Now, a company called Cogniview has come up with…
Posted on January 25, 2007 8:53 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Legal | Media | PR
I had removed this post initially because Dominic Jones—whom I still think is one of the more knowledgeable IR people I’ve ever read—told me I was making a fool of myself by posting it. I didn’t want this blog to be the source of inaccurate information.
From the standpoint of the current regulation, though, Dominic (in a comment to this post) wrote, “For what…
Posted on June 24, 2006 10:13 am by Shel Holtz | Legal | Podcasting
For years, I’ve been getting the same question when I get to the hyperlink section of my “Writing for the Wired World” workshop: “Do you need permission to link to somebody else’s content?” I am not a lawyer, but I have read a fair amount on this subject. My understanding is that, with some very narrow exceptions, any content that is freely accessible on the web is…
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