Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…

Beginner

Presenters

Stephen Land

"Copyright" laws are complicated, and they're often the reason why your videos, mobile apps, and other content may get taken down. "Fair use" is complicated, but it's often the reason you can get your content back up. Le…

Intermediate

Presenters

Art Neill, Jonathan McIntosh, Shaun Spalding, Teri Karobonik

Remixes and mash-ups proliferate online. Learn the differences between a "remix", a "mash-up", and a "cover song", and how that will impact what licenses they need to secure for video and audio postings of their creation…

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Dean Serletic, Sean Kinney, Christiane Kinney

Your music is earning royalties when it's used in streaming and video online, you’re just not getting it. Everything they never wanted you to know and more about how to maximize and collect revenue related to streaming m…

Presenters

George Howard, Jeff Price

In fifteen years, not a single music service has ever posted an annual (much less cumulative) profit. Is it possible, as content owners claim, that this is due solely to mismanagement by digital music services and their …

Presenters

Paul Fakler

Section 203 of the Copyright Act gives authors a 5-year window to reclaim the rights to their works by terminating transfers or licenses they executed in or after 1978, starting 35 years after they granted the licenses. …

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George Clinton, KJ Greene, Lita Rosario, Owen Sloane, Bartees Cox

The moment an artist records a frame, draws a line, or writes a word, data is created. Digital Service Providers send that creation as data to the world and the world pays them. But how do they know who to pay? By you te…

Presenters

Adam White, John Rudolph, John Gibbons, Robert Clement, Howell O'Rear

Although debates about how to protect copyright online might seem so 2010, they certainly haven't abated. The current conversations aren't as contentious as the SOPA skirmishes, but that doesn't necessarily mean consensu…

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David Lowery, Jill Lesser, Sherwin Siy, Casey Rae

With so much effort spent to protect creative works from infringement, the role of existing works in the creation of new ones is often overlooked. As a result, artists typically face significant challenges when attemptin…

Presenters

Carlos Affonso, Kristelia Garcia, Tyler Walker, Margot Kaminski