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?

Meeting with Adam Elend - Producer of Wallstrip

I'm very excited to be meeting with Adam Elend, one of the producers of Wallstrip tomorrow. Today, it was announced that CBS has acquired Wallstrip for 5 million bucks. Congrats to Wallstrip. As a part of BrightRED Pictures, Adam and his partner Jeff Marks have been writing, producing and directing these daily videos since January of 06. For those of you who don't know what Wallstrip is please check them out here.

I'm really looking forward to asking Adam about the possibility of major networks licensing shows from the web like his to put on Television set top box in the future, how licensing/content partnerships work at Wallstrip and what his plans are for the future now that they are a part of a big media conglomerate. Crossing from the web to TV will be an interesting experiment. I'd like to know if he thinks Wallstrip could have been licensed on a per show basis or in some other form to a TV channel like CNBC or Bloomberg or even a VH1 "Best Week Ever" type show. However I'm sure they are not complaining about being married to CBS now.

You can check out Adam's blog here.