With sites like YouTube and Vimeo, video marketing on the Internet has exploded. However, most companies are not aware of the legal issues involved with producing videos for the Internet. Here are a few legal issues to consider when planning and producing videos for online consumption.
Permissions There are several different types of permissions that may be required to produce a successful online video venture. If you use someone else?s copyrighted video, audio, or graphics, you need to get permission before you can include it in your video. Also, if you have talent in your video, whether paid or non-paid, you need to have their permission to use their likeness. If you?re doing an on-location shoot, make sure to have the property?s owner BEFORE you go out and shoot. Also, even if you have someone?s permission to record themselves or their property, make sure you have their permission for public AND private use. Finally, if your content is portraying someone or something in an unfavorable light, make sure to have all your ducks in a row, especially if you expect to be challenged either in court or the court of public opinion. If you fail to get all of the required permissions for your video, you subject yourself to a lawsuit.
Know What ?Fair Use? Means To stay within copyright law and still use unlicensed, copyrighted content, your content has to fall under one of these categories of use: commenting or critiquing copyrighted material, use for illustration or example, incidental or accidental capture of copyrighted material, memorializing or rescuing of an experience or event, use to launch a discussion, and recombining to make new work, such as a mashup or remix, whose elements depend on relationships between existing works. If the copyrighted content you use falls within these ?fair use? guidelines, it?s always a good rule of thumb to cite your sources.
Seek Out Online Legal Resources There is a lot of information on the Internet about copyright and other legal issues around video. YouTube offers several resources, some of which are specific to content that appears on the site.
Have Legally Binding Contracts This is probably the most important thing to remember when producing a video for online consumption: get it in writing! Make sure you have written contracts with all clients, vendors, and third parties that has clear language absolving you and your business from liability from unauthorized and restricted video content they may provide you with, expected to work on, or create on their behalf.
Making money in commercial real estate is all about managing your risks. Understanding and gaining knowledge of real-estate cycles helps you lower your risk. Although envisioning property cycles is essentially a random game, it gets downright perilous if you know little about the trends in the market in which your investing. Dallas property management and other large metro areas can be far more dynamic and fast paced.
With that in mind, let?s have a look at a common business cycle that will help you establish the perfect time to buy, sell, or go bottom fishing.
Growth Phase - in this phase, population increases, incomes rise, work is good, vacancies are decreasing, and hires are rising. New construction is pencilled in. And the human amount of excitement is high.
Peak Phase - this is the time to sell for optimum profit. This is often known as a seller?s market, and in the space you see new building projects accelerating and bidding wars between investors.
Contraction Phase - in this phase you'll doubtless see a handful of new projects on the market by this time, and this may be your clue that there's proof of potential overbuilding. Inflation is up, IRs are continuously inflating, vacancy rates began to creep up, and costs start to level off.
Recession Phase - in this phase real-estate in general is beginning to become trickier to sell. Properties are beginning to remain on the market for longer amounts of time. The property values reduce, rates are now high, and landlords are competing for renters because of overbuilding.
Bottom Phase - within this phase is the ideal time to purchase. But having mentioned that, this is also the most scary phase that's out there. Inflation with unemployment are high and requirement for apartments is on the fall. This is the face that ?separates the men from the boys.?
Recovery Phase - this phase represents a draft of fresh air. The economy starts to show indications of life, vacancies begin to reduce, leases level off and start to even drip upward, investors started to go into the market again, and money starts to flow back into the market.
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European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet attends the Eurogroup ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Monday Oct. 3, 2011. The eurozone's financial chiefs faced tough decisions over how to deal with Greece's debt crisis on Monday after Athens' admission that its deficit will be higher than promised sent markets tumbling. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet attends the Eurogroup ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Monday Oct. 3, 2011. The eurozone's financial chiefs faced tough decisions over how to deal with Greece's debt crisis on Monday after Athens' admission that its deficit will be higher than promised sent markets tumbling. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
BERLIN (AP) ? The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged on Thursday, holding off on a step many think the eurozone's chief monetary authority will eventually take by year-end to support a weakening economy.
Markets waited for bank head Jean-Claude Trichet's last news conference to see whether the ECB would announce new measures to support shaky banks under pressure from the Greek debt crisis.
The bank's 23-member governing council left the refinancing rate at 1.5 percent, ignoring calls to loosen its policies to fight mounting signs of a slowdown in the eurozone economy.
The bank's caution contrasted with the Bank of England's decision to buy another euro75 billion ($116 billion) in securities from banks, a step which expands the supply of money in the economy and can promote economic activity.
That makes the Bank of England the first major central bank to move to counterract the slide in global growth that has intensified since this summer.
Most think the ECB waited this month because the latest inflation figures were higher than expected and it typically likes to signal rate moves at least a month ahead of time. It hadn't done so ahead of Thursday's meeting. Rate cuts tend to boost inflation.
Trichet will turn the job over to Bank of Italy head Mario Draghi at the end of the month. But the European debt and banking crisis means his last days in office are not offering any chance for a leisurely goodbye.
Markets are now waiting to see if Trichet will announce at the news conference additional measures to steady Europe's banks. Possible steps include opening the central bank's credit window and offering unlimited loans to banks for six or 12 months or both. Normally the longest lending period is three months. The bank loaned euro49.75 billion ($66 billion) to 114 banks in August as an anti-crisis measure.
Eurozone leaders fear the effects on their banking system from Greece's debt crisis. A default on Greek bonds could inflict losses on the banks that hold Greek bonds. Those default fears are keeping banks from lending to each other for fear they won't get paid back, leaving some European banks dependent on ECB credit to keep running.
Experts and investors are increasingly resigned to the view that Greece will eventually default on its debts. The country faces bankruptcy if it does not get its next euro8 billion installment of money under a 2010 bailout; the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and ECB say a decision won't come until the end of the month.
European Union finance ministers have asked the bloc's banking supervisor to draw up a report on banks' capital levels, a European official said Thursday, amid fears that the worsening debt crisis could trigger another credit crunch.
Banks' ability to survive steeper losses on Greek debt will be one of the scenarios assessed in that report, the official said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she was in favor of a coordinated recapitalization of European banks if that was deemed necessary.
European officials have already agreed to give their euro440 billion bailout fund the power to bail out troubled banks. But the changes agreed in July are still awaiting votes in some national legislatures, and the spread of the crisis has led many economists to conclude the fund is too small to effectively reassure markets.
That delay leaves the ECB reluctantly holding the line against the crisis. It has bought Italian and Spanish government bonds, keeping those countries borrowing costs from rising because of market contagion from Greece. Greece, Ireland and Portugal all had to turn to the eurozone countries for bailouts because rising interest rates and fears of default left them unable to affordably refinance their debt burdens. Those countries are small enough to bail out, but Italy, the No. 3 eurozone economy, is too large for that.
The ECB has said it expects the eurozone bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to take over the bond purchases as soon as it can.
Study finds liver cancer increasing in low risk countries, decreasing in high risk countriesPublic release date: 6-Oct-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David Sampson david.sampson@cancer.org American Cancer Society
ATLANTA -- October 6, 2011 -- A new study finds liver cancer incidence rates continue to increase in some low-risk parts of the world such as North America, and are decreasing in some of the highest risk countries of Asia. Despite this, the incidence rates in Asian countries remain twice as high as those in Africa and more than four times as high as rates in North America. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention and appears early online.
Using data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, American Cancer Society epidemiologists Melissa M. Center, MPH and Ahmedin Jemal, PhD examined recent trends in liver cancer incidence rates from 1993 to 2002 for 32 cancer registries worldwide. They also examined the male to female rate ratios for these and four additional registries, based on the 1998 incidence data.
They found liver cancer incidence rates for both men and women increased from 1993 to 2002 for eight of the 32 cancer registries considered in the analysis. Increases were largely confined to economically developed countries of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania and may be partly due to increased chronic HCV infection as a result of unscreened blood transfusions and contaminated needles used for medical purposes and with widespread intravenous drug use in previous decades. In contrast, rates decreased in both men and women in five registries including three in Asia. Despite this, incidence rates in Asian countries remain three to four times higher than those in low-risk areas with increasing rates. Male to female rate ratios varied from 0.9 in sub-Saharan African and South American registries to 5.0 (five men for every woman diagnosed) in France and Egypt.
The authors conclude that liver cancer incidence rates continue to increase in some low-risk parts of the world, while they are now decreasing in some of the highest risk countries in Asia. Additional studies looking at causation are needed, they say, to further elucidate factors contributing to these divergent liver cancer incidence trends worldwide.
"We hope our description of international liver cancer incidence trends may stimulate studies to further illustrate etiologic factors associated with these divergent liver cancer incidence trends worldwide," said Ms. Center.
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Article: International Trends in Liver Cancer Incidence Rates, Melissa M. Center and Ahmedin Jemal, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Published OnlineFirst September 15, 2011; doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0643.
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Study finds liver cancer increasing in low risk countries, decreasing in high risk countriesPublic release date: 6-Oct-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David Sampson david.sampson@cancer.org American Cancer Society
ATLANTA -- October 6, 2011 -- A new study finds liver cancer incidence rates continue to increase in some low-risk parts of the world such as North America, and are decreasing in some of the highest risk countries of Asia. Despite this, the incidence rates in Asian countries remain twice as high as those in Africa and more than four times as high as rates in North America. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention and appears early online.
Using data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, American Cancer Society epidemiologists Melissa M. Center, MPH and Ahmedin Jemal, PhD examined recent trends in liver cancer incidence rates from 1993 to 2002 for 32 cancer registries worldwide. They also examined the male to female rate ratios for these and four additional registries, based on the 1998 incidence data.
They found liver cancer incidence rates for both men and women increased from 1993 to 2002 for eight of the 32 cancer registries considered in the analysis. Increases were largely confined to economically developed countries of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania and may be partly due to increased chronic HCV infection as a result of unscreened blood transfusions and contaminated needles used for medical purposes and with widespread intravenous drug use in previous decades. In contrast, rates decreased in both men and women in five registries including three in Asia. Despite this, incidence rates in Asian countries remain three to four times higher than those in low-risk areas with increasing rates. Male to female rate ratios varied from 0.9 in sub-Saharan African and South American registries to 5.0 (five men for every woman diagnosed) in France and Egypt.
The authors conclude that liver cancer incidence rates continue to increase in some low-risk parts of the world, while they are now decreasing in some of the highest risk countries in Asia. Additional studies looking at causation are needed, they say, to further elucidate factors contributing to these divergent liver cancer incidence trends worldwide.
"We hope our description of international liver cancer incidence trends may stimulate studies to further illustrate etiologic factors associated with these divergent liver cancer incidence trends worldwide," said Ms. Center.
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Article: International Trends in Liver Cancer Incidence Rates, Melissa M. Center and Ahmedin Jemal, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Published OnlineFirst September 15, 2011; doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0643.
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Repairing Credit After Debt Settlement ? The Tax Implications of Settling A Debt
You may be lucky enough to have all or part of your debt wiped clean when you offer to settle with a creditor. This sometimes happens when you negotiate a reduced payoff and the creditor agrees to designate your account paid in full for less than the original debt. However, your initial peace of mind could leave you with a higher tax bill.
People experiencing financial setbacks sometimes approach their creditors to obtain debt relief, either directly or through an intermediary such a credit counseling company. While this is relatively easy to do and more and more creditors are open to it, you should know that such a debt settlement could have negative tax ramifications.
If you settle a debt with a creditor, or the creditor writes it off, you could owe money to the IRS on that amount. This applies to credit card defaults, property repossession, or money you owe after a foreclosure.
Anytime a credit card company, government agency, bank, credit union, savings and loan, or finance company forgives or writes off 0.+ of debt, they have to submit a Form 1099-C to both you and the IRS. You must them report it as income on your federal income tax return?except in these cases:
A student loan canceled because you worked as promised when you took out the loan in a profession and for a specified employer. A mortgage on your principal home of less than M if you file single or jointly with your spouse (M if you file individually with your spouse) that was wholly or partially forgiven between 2007 and 2012. A nonbusiness debt canceled before 2007 as a result of Hurricane Katrina. A canceled debt that would have been deductible if you had paid it. A debt discharged in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Cancellation or write-off of a debt intended as a gift (highly unlikely). You were insolvent (your debts exceed the value of your assets) before the creditor agreed to waive or write off the debt. You can avoid reporting the debt as income only to the extent that you were insolvent.
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To claim an exception, you need to file an IRS Form 982: Reduction of Tax Due to Discharge of Indebtedness form. This form can be complicated ? especially if you are claiming the insolvency exception. Consult an accountant to ensure it is properly done. They can also help you on your tax return.
A debt settlement where your creditor settles for less than the original amount can affect your tax liabilities. While this may appear to eliminate all your problems in the short term, it can complicate your tax situation. Hiring a competent accountant to review your circumstances can guarantee that you stay on the right side of the IRS.
freedebtsettlementadvice.com is a matchmaker in the?debt settlement industry. They have paired up thousands of consumers?up with debt settlement companies who are most likely to get?consumers the best deal. http://www.freedebtsettlementadvice.com
Fourteen years ago, food banks told Tom Wargo his idea to stock pet food for the needy was unnecessary.
"I said, 'I'll build shelves, I'll build a storage unit, I'll build something at your location and then I'll stock it with pet food, so that if people come in, you can give them pet food,'" the Lilburn resident said.
Are you a Windows user in need of yet another cloud storage option? Lucky for you, after a long-running beta, Canonical's Ubuntu One client has officially debuted on Microsoft's platform. First introduced with Ubuntu 10.10, the service offers 5GB of free storage, with file syncing across multiple machines, ala Dropbox. Android and iOS clients are already available. If you need more space, how about 20GB for $29.99 a year or $2.99 a month? And if portable tunes is your game, you can have that same 20GB along with music streaming apps (similar to Google Music Beta) for $39.99 a year or $3.99 a month. Click the source link to engage in some cross-platform storage.
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