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

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For example, if you're looking for music, artwork, or other content that you can freely remix, republish, and reuse as part of your digital story, there's a Creative Commons license for that, too. How can we use memes while still respecting copyright and making sure content creators get appropriate credit?

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Happy Halloween from the Halloween Video Blog Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. Over at blip.tv, I found the above "music video" by Steve Garfield. What I like about it: I like the technique of photo stills and music and the use of pans (hmm. Music by Imogen Heap.

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Open Source Cinema

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. The film will use music as a lens to examine the greater issues of gene patenting, bio-piracy, medicine, and the ownership of culture.

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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

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In the simplest terms, SOPA would've created a "de facto blacklist of sites accused of infringing on copyright," Reitman said. Let's say you or even one of your supporters remixed a video that included a sample of copyrighted music, and this video was linked from your website. Why Should You Care?