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Social Media Copyright and Fair Use Rules to Know

Ignite Social Media

As you use social media platforms to build your brand, you shouldn’t overlook the legal consequences that might arise. Fair Use in the Social Media Age. It’s a no-brainer that you shouldn’t use other people’s intellectual work without a fair use exemption or the owners’ permission.

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Hitler Downfall: Constantine Film vs The World

Laurel Papworth

Mashable reported this morning that, after the Hitler Downfall meme had done it’s work and made tonnes of money for Constantine Films, that Constantine Films was forcing the parody videos to be removed. However if I logged out and tried to view the video, then the warnings came: Very weird. Please review these videos.

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$100,000 in One Week, a Viral Nova Follow-Up

Viper Chill

Many of them were to let me know about the Facebook click fraud video that’s gone viral and the articles from both Business Insider and Bloomberg on Upworthy losing Facebook traffic. The meme’s aren’t that great and the implementation is quite sloppy (huge black bars on pictures, some very pixelated, etc.),

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