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Bring a Question: Creative Commons Hosts TechSoup Social Channels on September 17, 2014

Tech Soup

That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

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By Geoff Livingston, Principal & Co-Founder, Zoetica Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter and LinkedIn have become the interstates of the social web. Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities states, ".you

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Don't Just Post, Post a Story

Tech Soup

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? Pay attention to copyright - stealing content is not okay, so make sure you have the proper licensing and copyright to share your post. You shouldn't be.

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. The standard YouTube license is restrictive. CC BY is the most permissive CC license.

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Why Social Media Can Suck

Care2

We email them, text them, tweet them and tag them on Facebook. Businesses aren’t just sending households coupons anymore they are offering daily deals on sites like LivingSocial or sending out discount codes on social networks after you “like” them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Here’s why.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook : Updating information from the blog and infromation about the events we do and communicating with the community. Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Channels used: Twitter, Blog, Facebook. Curated Content.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

while employees check their Facebook pages or surf eBay for a deal. Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. while employees check their Facebook pages or surf eBay for a deal. Lost productivity. From spyware.

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