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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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How to Tackle YouTube Copyright Issues

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That means that when you publish a blog post, you can legally demand that someone who copied it word for word takes it down. You can, however, protest that the content is your full original work, that you have a license (which in our case, we did), that you have fair use, or that the content claimed was public domain.

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The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing

Waxing UnLyrical

That means they are circulating via email and internet blogs at lightening [sic] speed. Is your profile public? Unfortunately, the photo has been dramatically and digitally altered, distributed, and now widely available on the public domain. So if you could give me a direct link to where you got it would help.”

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Is Amazon reading this blog?

The Way of the Web

Hello, I must be going… → Is Amazon reading this blog? 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.

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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. I published an article titled Top 10 deadliest air crashes in the last 10 years on my own blog. I’ve found the same article reproduced without my permission on other blogs as well.