Adam Eland Meeting- WallStrip

Had a great meeting with Adam at Wallstrip, which was just acquired by CBS. It turns out that Adam is a neighbor of mine. The Wallstrip offices are a half a block from Cutcaster's headquarters and I walk by it everyday and never noticed. Small world.

Adam and I spoke a lot of the time about Wallstrip and his experience creating the daily show. We spoke a lot about Fair Use, how he uses clips that he doesn't own in Wallstrip, if things will change under CBS and what the future holds for licensing content. We both agreed that the licensing waters were murky and in need of clarification but for the time being Wallstrip was protected under the Fair Use clauses. We spoke at length about taking content from the web and licensing it over to TV or vice versa and how that could be set up. Adam has been doing some great work at Wallstrip and I'm glad we got to meet. Best of luck over the next few years and I am sure we will be hearing more about Adam in the future.

So the question remains, how do you safely and legally license content that you want to use? What laws or rules should you follow?