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Can I Use This Photo on Social Media? Understanding Image Copyright

Hootsuite

From Attribution Noncommercial-No Derivative Works licenses to “fair use,” there’s a lot to unpack. Just so it’s clear – I have/would never give permission for use of my son’s photo to promote any agenda of this vile man or that disgusting party. What is fair use? What is Creative Commons?

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Google Penalizes Copyright Infringers: Are You At Risk?

ProBlogger

Recently Google announced on its official blog that it will start penalizing sites that are accused of copyright infringement. The announcement may reduce the content theft around the web, since now it is clear that if a site continuously violates copyright laws, it will lose search rankings and possibly even be removed from Google’s index.

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Is Amazon reading this blog?

The Way of the Web

September 29th, 2010 · View Comments On Monday I wrote about the future of libraries , and how digital sharing and sampling are legally enabled either by open works (Public Domain or Creative Commons), or that retailers will have a vested interest in allowing sampling. Now which tech books have the longest first chapter?

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How to Use Quotes in Your Blog Content Legally and Ethically

ProBlogger

This is normally considered ‘ fair use ’, and you don’t have to ask for permission. To do this you should either get explicit permission from its creator or choose an image that’s already been licensed for you to use. Using Other People’s Videos on Your Blog. What if You Need to Modify the Quote?

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? a week for a digital-only pass to the site and apps.

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PB173: How to Use Quotes in Your Blog Content Legally and Ethically

ProBlogger

Remember before I was saying, when you take a quote from a larger piece of content that someone has written, you are taking a small part of what they’ve written and using that in your own. That fits into what’s called “fair use.” I guess, the same goes for video.

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PB173: How to Use Quotes in Your Blog Content Legally and Ethically

ProBlogger

Remember before I was saying, when you take a quote from a larger piece of content that someone has written, you are taking a small part of what they’ve written and using that in your own. That fits into what’s called “fair use.” I guess, the same goes for video.

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