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Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Era

The Realtime Report

Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Era By Jenny Q. The end goal is to create a safe environment where users can share information and content while educating them on how to do so legally. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed to move copyright law into the new internet age. ” Click To Tweet.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

Socialized

The best guidance for whether live blogging and live tweeting is acceptable comes from the Fair Use provision of U.S. Factors that affect whether reproduction of a copyrighted work is fair use are: “The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. Respect copyright, fair use and financial disclosure laws.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

You can find numerous examples of this on the net, like the What is Fair Use? Soon-to-be sophomore and official Yale blogger, Sam Jackson , puts this concept to work on his own site, where he blogs about higher education marketing trends. Think of it as Facebook for bloggers (well, before Facebook was for everyone.)

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

A few nights ago, I went to the bloggers/Twitterers briefing for News.com new digital subscriptons for news hosted by Chief Executive Officer – News Digital Media and The Australian Richard Freudenstein and The Australian’s editor Clive Mathieson. Why invite Bloggers to a News.com Press briefing? Their own staff? So read on.