I interviewed Senior Counsel for Vimeo, Michael Cheah, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Vimeo is running messages on January 18 th (today) highlighting the issue and will invite users to tell Congress to reject SOPA.

I interview entertainment and new media attorney Gordon Firemark for a guide on two controversial bills in Congress and the top online video crisis of 2012 – the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which are threating to censor our free expression and remove our ability to do business with online video. My video interview with Gordon Firemark on SOPA and PIPA You can just watch my video interview with attorney Gordon Firemark below, or go right to the article and accompanying videos further below.

In our continued "Is That Legal" video series, I have entertainment law attorney and friend-of-ReelSEO, Gordon Firemark , answer a fan's question about making parody videos of professional wrestling for their own marketing activities.

I'm traveling out of town this weekend, so we're doing this week's look at the Reel Web a bit differently: we're doing it vlog style! I quickly look at a couple stories that stand out to me and share them with you guys in a slightly different format than normal. What do you think of it? Let me know in the comments below! Is Bill S.978 The End Of Fair Use On YouTube

Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis, is a mashup artist.

The time is now to counter the troubling proliferation of socially irresponsible video online, and that starts with each of us.

Intellectual Property Law Attorney Marcelo Halpern gives us a “legal video education” on why most online video professionals and enthusiasts today have big misconceptions about what they are and aren’t allowed to use with what they find or put out on the Internet, and the real damage it’s causing businesses. I caught up with Marcelo after his presentation with the Practice Law Institute (PLI)’s live seminar in Chicago, Understanding Copyright Law in the Data Era (and also available now in course handbook format including presentations.) Marcello presented on “Fair Use and Permissions,” which he’s been generous to include for us his full presentation below.

I interviewed Rebecca Jeschke, Media Relations Director for the digital civil liberties group, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Rebecca shared with me how they fight for people’s rights with both creating videos and expression of freedom speech, and important information for all online video creators on what they need to know about how to deal with their videos being unfairly removed from YouTube and other service providers. Why Online Video Creators Today MUST Know Their “Fair Use” Rights Click here to watch the embedded video.

Should the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which has been the basis for rulings around copyright infringement with online video and all other Internet content, have a 2011 makeover?

When it comes to video marketing, there are two legal defenses in U.S. for using somebody else’s copyrighted work in your video without first receiving expressed permission, those being parody and fair use. In my continued “Is My Video Legal?” video series, I feature a special Q&A between a video marketer and a lawyer to answer the question: Is it legal to do a “spoof video” of a popular movie to promote themselves professionally