Griffin Broussard Assignment 3

The host discusses legal issues related to posting on social media. Copyright is crucial, as using others' work without permission can lead to trouble. Defamation and privacy violations can also result in lawsuits or fines. To stay safe, use your own content or obtain permission to use others'. Verify facts before posting, respect privacy, and adhere to platform rules. Following these guidelines is essential for a trouble-free social media presence. Hello everybody welcome to The Recess. I'm your host, Griffin Broussard. We're going to talk a little bit about legal stuff you need to watch out for when you post, tweet, pin things on social media. If you do it for work, for pleasure, for fun, you've got to stay out of trouble. So first, obviously, do you have to worry about copyright when you post on social media? Absolutely, you do. Copyright is when someone makes a picture or video or writes something and saves it. That's it. If its their original work, they have that copyright. So if you use or share someone else's stuff without asking, you just stole it. With your job in communications, you might get in trouble for that. In your job, you might share things to tell stories or build a narrative, or help people, but if it's not yours, you can get in big trouble. Lawsuits, cease and desist letters, or fines. X or Instagram have ways to report it, but it doesn't save you. So think everything, just assume everything is protected unless you have the permission to use it in formality. Like in writing, you have a copyright form. You have a license for music, pictures, anything like that. You should have the rights to use it or you could get in trouble. Aside from copyright, obviously, defamation can come into play and privacy can come into play. Defamation, obviously, will hurt you if you intend to hurt someone else. Blaming a company or blaming someone for something without facts. You might get sued. Being true, being factual may help, but if you don't have those facts, you might have to watch a little bit of what you say. Privacy, obviously, sharing somebody's private info or secrets or anything of theirs without permission. You need permission. Privacy can get you in trouble. These can lead to things like cease and desist letters or fines, or court battles, and they can hurt your credibility. So make sure you don't hurt anybody intentionally without facts, and you don't violate someone's privacy because that is against the law. There are things you can do to avoid the trouble by posting on social media with your own content. And if you don't have your own content, you can do research to find content that is free to use without copyright concerns, without privacy concerns. To avoid defamation, you should just avoid defamation. Get the facts before you say something. Use the tools at your disposal to stay safe when posting on social media. Get the okay before sharing personal information, personal things, and make rules for yourself. And if you have a content team, make sure they follow those rules. Learn which sites have different rules because Facebook X and YouTube are not the same. That's it for staying safe on social media. Make sure you follow the rules, stay out of trouble, and make following those rules a part of your daily work. Thanks for listening to The Recess. It's time to go back to class. I'll see you next time. Post wisely.