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How to license mixed media, without a law degree

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. There are some issues related to the remix chain and what is or isn't fair use. Must I always create credits for the movie, shown at the end? into the file itself.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have spent almost all day today testing different ways to compress and host video posts that might work where the Internet access is slow or if you are video blogging from an Internet cafe and the computer does not have windows movie maker on it. I've included some tips for getting good clips in small video files.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can upload to their host or you can download a.swf file. I don't know if this possible - I have to find the right.swf to.avi converter and test it - but you could possibly edit and remix these clips into a screencast. WFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. It is very easy to use.

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