Walking the Intellectual Property Law Labyrinth on Multimedia Projects  

With the advent of new technology, we can quickly combine video, text, sound and other media in exciting ways. But, because of intellectual property laws, there can be limits to what we can do. In developing multimedia products, we need to be careful not to infringe on existing rights and patents. We can do this by discovering and documenting the origins of each work used in our products to ensure that we hold the appropriate rights. When we use works that weren’t created by our company, we need to work with company counsel to ensure that all requisite licenses, releases and other documents are obtained.

Doudnikoff, Gregory M. and Pamela S. Helyar. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Multimedia>Intellectual Property