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Podcast: Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)
Episode: Publishing law today: privacy, fair use, and piracy, with guest Jonathan Kirsch
Description: New developments in privacy law in Europe, and fair use, piracy, and widespread infringement by high-tech players remain big challenges for publishers. Publishing attorney Jonathan Kirsch analyzes a changing landscape.
Topics include:
How the European Union’s GDPR privacy laws are tightening up data collection and possibly placing even US-based publishers in legal jeopardy
Understanding Fair Use: there are no formulas, only criteria
Piracy: even legitimate corporations are trying to use your copyrighted material without permission. Can they? In some cases, legally, they can!
But there is always recourse to the DMCA takedown notice, which is su...