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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. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed to move copyright law into the new internet age.

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Google Books Poses New Search Opportunity

Small Business Mavericks

Google has just won a landmark legal battle involving its fair use/copyright dispute with The Authors Guild. A judge agreed with their argument that scanning pages of published books constitutes fair use. A search for “ search engine optimization ” turns up book after book on the subject.

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My Backlinks Strategy Sucks, And What I Plan To Do About It

Jason Yormark

But where I’ve been terrible at and continue to be is with my back links on pretty much all the engines. I feel that I write fairly useful and/or entertaining blog posts that most seem to find interesting or helpful. My Alex rank continues to climb a bit as I’m dancing in the 300,000 range.

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An Introduction to Using Images on Blogs

ProBlogger

Copyright Issues Copyright laws vary, but in general, using copyright-protected images as extracts or complements to your posts falls under Fair Use or Fair Dealing. However, using such images as part of your blog’s design may not be considered fair use.

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Information Literacy and Big6

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Research your project topic using these subject directories: Librarian’s Internet Index. Optional Reading: How to choose a search engine or directory. Use of Information Part I: "Organize or Die!". Making Powerpoint Note Cards - Example (from Information Literacy Instruction and Fair Use). Google Directory.

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Google Penalizes Copyright Infringers: Are You At Risk?

ProBlogger

In some cases, using work without permission is allowed. For criticizing, commenting, and news reporting, short quotations are considered fair use. You can also use material that’s available in the public domain. Finally, you are allowed to use a brand name on your site under nominative fair use 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? (I think theyve got it!). Lesson #4: Learn to Blog. What better way to learn to blog than to begin with blogs in the classroom ? As mentioned at the beginning of this article, one blog post cant possibly cover all that is social media.

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