If you have read my last few posts about the problems of blogging in Germany, then you will probably not be surprised to learn that making a video or an audio podcast to put online is not easy.
Let’s start with the easy part: filming something and then publishing the film, is basically no different to the situation with a photo.
But with audio, things get even more complicated. As you might imagine, you cannot just record something and then use it. If I record an interview for a podcast then I either get written permission to use the recording, or – if the interview is conducted by telephone – ask the interviewee to confirm their agreement once the “record” button has been pressed. [Read more…]
I often see blogs from other countries that contain photos that appear to have been taken in public spaces and then used to illustrate new posts, and I am sure that many of those authors don’t give a second thought to using them.
Have you ever considered at what point a blog stops being a personal one and starts being a business? Or at which point the blogger becomes a writer, or even a journalist?