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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

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The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Finding Good Quality Music Sources Isn't Impossible. Trade Off: What value does music add?

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This YouTube video is from Kenneth Goldstein and it's hilarious. Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S.

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Happy Halloween from the Halloween Video Blog Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click To Play I've been exploring about how a teacher or parent might seek out video blog content that is educational for kids not yet ready to mix their own. So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. Music by Imogen Heap.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » State Department Gets Into the Web Video Game

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It shows that it’s not just nonprofits who are getting into the online video game, but also government. It is really making fun of this investment in video and while certainly they can’t compete on YouTube views, I think there is very good reason for our government to extend their PR work to web video. I Got a Crush.

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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

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I learned this from early days in music school (and art school) -- you listened to music or viewed art and analyzed what you were seeing or hearing. The screencast is done MTV style - that is it is like a music video - visuals and music - no narration. Editing is done to the music and works well. Production.