Blog help / legal issues
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- DaveO
I'm looking for some help from internet people – specifically people who know about blog content and the legalities surrounding it.
Here's the situation:
I am working on creating a blog for a client as part of a campaign. They are a relatively big brand and are quite well known. The blog will be curated by one person and it will show cool, creative things.
SOME content that we will be developed by ourselves, but I was wondering about the legal issues of finding something on the internet and posting it on the blog.
Example – say I find a flickr set that I want to show as a post, with an image from the set and a link to the page where they all are. Is it okay if I credit the person or do I have to ask permission because the blog is coming from a brand and in effect 'sponsored'.
Or can I have a disclaimer that says 'if you see your work on here and do not want to email us and we will take it down'?
And what is the deal with Youtube? Is it public domain and can therefore be used by anyone?
So a blog like Creative Review uses all these channels for content, and is effectively a brand selling magazines.....so would they ask permission for useage?
Would really appreciate some thoughts and opinions and ideally, experiences of this kind of thing.
Cheers
- ian0
Disclaimer that states all content is copyright of the actual owners NOT the company you are creating it for and email link to take it down if someone disagrees with its use. Full credit and links to original owners sites etc.
Should be fine, what you need to get across clearly is that the orignial creators of the artworks shown do not endorse the product or brand you are advertising.
- chossy0
Or you could take the time to get in contact with the owner / creator and ask permission. I understand that this isn't always practical so a disclaimer would be good. I don't see anything wrong with it as long as you are clear it's not yours and that the person you gathered it from is clearly credited.
- Bluejam0
check out the legal section of this branded blog
http://www.lgblog.co.uk/legal/
"The links in this area will let you leave this LG Electronics Web site. The linked sites are not under the control of LG Electronics. LG Electronics is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by LG Electronics of the site."
- DaveO0
Thanks for these, great and really useful.
- jevad0
I personally would always ask first
- jimzyk0
I personally would always act first
ask later.
- kelpie0
that's blogging though innit? "brands" that obey the unwritten rules of the space are accepted fine, its when they try to act like "brands" and control everything and inject direct sales patter into people's faces, that's when they come a cropper.
People put things online, blogs find them and post them up, more people see them, everyone happy. I wouldn't worry too much.
Put the legals on, the legals will protect your client from "off-brand" content as much as anything, which is equally important in this situation.
Get them to be nice. As if they were capable of imagining they were human and talking to other humans, rather than a horrible corporate pirate.
- DaveO0
Trying to sort this out at the moment and the brand has a 'no risk' policy – which is annoying because when you actually start to address the copyright of stuff like YouTube, it gets messy.
Anyone had any experience of being sued etc?