YouTube Creator Playbook Just Got Better for Publishers

Last week, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that embedding videos in your blog or website is not a copyright infringement. As long as that video hasn't been copied from the original source, the owner's copyright has not been violated. People who watch embedded videos are not infringing on the owner's copyright either. Mashable quoted the following from the ruling to offer some clarity:

As a follow up to Newstex's release of its free ebook, "The Publisher's Guide to Mobile and Tablet Development," it's important to review the legal considerations that go into mobile app development and marketing.

What is a journalist? Who is a journalist? These are questions being asked by media outlets and the government as the blurred lines of journalism draw ever closer to disappearing entirely.

In its annual study of the use of social media among Fortune 500 companies, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth found that Twitter is the most used social media platform in 2013.

For months, people have been speculating about what would happen to Feedburner as Google continued to demonstrate it's lack of intention to continue supporting the service.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve the Free Flow of Information Act, which would create additional protections for journalists at the federal level.

Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that bloggers have the same First Amendment protections as journalists and the "institutional press" when they publish content about matters of public concern.

Women between the ages of 18 and 24 represent the fastest growing segment of the digital newspaper audience.

Copyrights and fair use are confusing terms with a huge gray area that is often left to subjective interpretation.