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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Or having a writer steal a column from your blog and present it as their own work on their own site.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). .""

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AI for Social Media: Supercharge Your Copy, Images & Videos

Forum One

There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. And is it so good that it will put me out of a job?) Content needs to be checked and referenced, and sometimes falls short. Outsourcing your marketing entirely to AI will result in bad marketing and will hurt your brand.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup recently published a FAQ about " Borrowing Images from the Web. Copyright Office. Copyright Office notes that the factors that help determine whether use of a work constitutes fair use include: The purpose of the work, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.

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BBC News - Copyright group Creative Commons targets web users

AFP Blog

BBC News - Copyright group Creative Commons targets web users

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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.”