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OFFICE OF XYZ

Live Streaming Apps:Copyright & Privacy Challenges

Dr. Chip StewartAssociate Dean

Bob Schieffer College of CommunicationMay 13, 2015

The players

Intellectual Property

Live streaming copyrighted content is definitely infringement * But who can stop it? * What are the consequences? * What if it is accidental?

Right of Publicity

• Suppose you are live streaming a public event in connection with your product or service– What is going on in the background? Live music,

audio/video broadcast, trademarks?– Who is appearing in the video? Have they

consented to appear?– What about getting releases? And how?

Should we always be on?

Should we always be on?

• ESPN reporter suspended after tirade against towing company employee

What’s public? What’s private?

Some possibilities

• First Amendment-based right to photograph and record in public– Essential for newsgathering, democracy

• Individual rights to protect property, reputation, right of publicity– In areas with “reasonable expectation of privacy”

• Privacy-based right of “practical obscurity”– protecting data, online information, “right to be

forgotten”

Questions?