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Social Media Copyright and Fair Use Rules to Know

Ignite Social Media

As you use social media platforms to build your brand, you shouldn’t overlook the legal consequences that might arise. Fair Use in the Social Media Age. It’s a no-brainer that you shouldn’t use other people’s intellectual work without a fair use exemption or the owners’ permission.

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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. Working with both lawyers and engineers to create an anti-piracy policy that works for your business is a great start. Establishing policies that allow users to make informed choices about your service is important as well.

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What you need to know about social media copyright

Sprout Social

Keep reading for more tips from Kelley Gordon, an expert in copyright and intellectual property law, and examples that will help you create a proactive social media policy. Fair use : US legal doctrine that allows for circumstances when copyrighted material can be copied and/or used without permission.

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

Hootsuite

The legalese found in image copyright policies can be intimidating. From Attribution Noncommercial-No Derivative Works licenses to “fair use,” there’s a lot to unpack. What is fair use? Fair use is an exception to the rule when it comes to copyright. Fair use rarely applies to social media marketing.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If you publish content to any website outside of IBM and it has something to do with work you do or subjects associated with IBM, use a disclaimer such as this: "The postings on this site are my own and dont necessarily represent IBMs positions, strategies or opinions.". Respect copyright, fair use and financial disclosure laws.

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The Why, How and When of Using Quotations on Your Blog

ProBlogger

By using quotations, you can either bolster your own arguments (“Professor Jones agrees, writing…”) or you can stand against a statement that you strongly disagree with (“I see this very different from Joe Blogger, who says…”). #2: Many countries have a “ fair usepolicy covering these.

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