The Curious Lawyer: Social Media Law - YouTube, Instagram and More

Social media is now ubiquitous as a series of platforms by which people communicate and transmit information. In this fun and interesting program, explore social media and how the law regulates the social media sites. This program explores the two major pillars of immunity form the 1990’s that facilitated social media growth, the immunity from state tort liability for defamation and state torts, and the copyright immunity for infringement on their sites. Surveying state and federal cases, experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi takes you on a fun, interesting journey through the case law of myriad social media and ubiquitous platforms like Twitter, LiveJournal, Yelp, YouTube, Yahoo, and Facebook, looking at cases where immunity has protected them and a few instances where immunity has not saved them. And we also explore the expansive rights you give up at the moment you upload content, from the broad grant of copyright licenses and even grants of licenses to your personal right of publicity. You may be shocked when you are done at just how much social media sites depend upon both user individual gifts of content and congressional grants of immunity to do what they do.