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3 Bad news: PR professionals under fire – just for doing their job SIAA Anti-Piracy 2007 Year in Review, 2007 “In September, SIIA settled its first case … on behalf of member companies the Associated Press, Dow Jones & Co., Nielsen, Reed Elsevier and United Press International. The consulting firm Knowledge Networks, Inc. had routinely taken copyrighted articles owned by these and other publishers and included copies in a “press packet” it distributed to employees, first in paper form and later by . The firm agreed to a $300,000 settlement, and committed to take remedial measures …”TRANSCRIPT
You Too: Social Media Boot Camp & Leadership Summit Copyright Compliance
in the Digital WorldSteve Shannon, Executive Vice President
March 7, 2008
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It’s a digital world What’s new: Social media, online news, video What’s not: The need to showcase and measure
your results What’s also changing: how you can share clips
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Bad news: PR professionals under fire – just for doing their job
SIAA Anti-Piracy 2007 Year in Review, 2007
“In September, SIIA settled its first case … on behalf of member companies the Associated Press, Dow Jones & Co., Nielsen, Reed Elsevier and United Press International. The consulting firm Knowledge Networks, Inc. had routinely taken copyrighted articles owned by these and other publishers and included copies in a “press packet” it distributed to employees, first in paper form and later by e-mail. The firm agreed to a $300,000 settlement, and committed to take remedial measures …”
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I know all about copyright – I think Copyright protects authors and creators of
original works Literary works, songs, plays, art, motion pictures,
more Legal protections first offered in 1710 in Britain U.S. reviews and updates copyright law
regularly Fair use: Copyright Act of 1976 Digital content: Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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Today’s copyright environment Content producers permit news monitoring,
but want to be assured the value of their property is acknowledged and protected
Information yearns to be free but it still costs money to produce content
Violators subject to penalties Moreover, an Internet content aggregator, sued by
the Associated Press In the past, Texaco paid seven-figure judgment for
misuse of copyrighted news material
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Copyright environment (con’t) SIIA (Software and Information Industry
Association) has launched campaign to educate PR professionals and induce proper use of news clips
“Carrot” (education) and “stick” (enforcement) Announced $300,000 “content piracy”
settlement on August 16, 2007 Knowledge Networks had been routinely copying
news clips from AP, Reed Elsevier, and UPI (all SIIA members)
Read the press release: www.siia.net/press/releases/Antipiracy_KN-settlement-release.pdf
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SIIA Op-Ed piece in PRWeek
By Keith Kupferschmid, SVP of intellectual property policy and enforcement at the Software & Information Industry Association
Read the article www.prweekus.com/Copyright-compliance-is-easy-choice/article/57853/
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SIIA banner ads on PRWeek
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Sounds scary! How can I share and measure my media relations results?
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Your options Option A:
An Economical Alternative to a Higher-End Canon By MARTY KATZ, The New York TimesPublished: June 14, 2007Canon’s 8-megapixel S5 IS, which just went on sale, is considered a bridge camera — crossing the gap between a pocket point-and-shoot and heftier single-lens reflex models, known as DSLRs. www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14camera.html?scp=1&sq=canon+s5+is&st=nyt
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Option B
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Only in America … In other countries, the needs of PR
professionals are handled by organizations such as the NLA
The U.S. has no such body BurrellesLuce first started to pursue licensing
agreements with publishers in 1994, with the advent of digital media
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Summary You can share news clips for purposes of
media monitoring and measurement There are new rules – and newly enforced
rules – that govern this activity
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For more information Copyright white paper
(burrellesluce.com/knowcopyright) My contact information
Steve Shannon, BurrellesLuce [email protected] 800.631.1160