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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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An Easy Recipe for Making Text Overlay Images

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. If you cook, you know that your dishes are only as good as your ingredients. For text overlay images, you need the following ingredients: text, photo, and branding. High Quality Ingredients. Kitchen Equipment.

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Read the Fine Print: Who Actually Owns Your Website?

Byte Technology

. • Ask the designer or firm directly whether or not they have the right of ownership to the actual design (minus any content you wrote, photos or video you provided or even stock imagery you purchased independently and asked the designer to use). appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

Tech Soup

With so many cute cat photos on the Internet, it's tempting to just grab one and use it on your website. copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

By Geoff Livingston, Principal & Co-Founder, Zoetica Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter and LinkedIn have become the interstates of the social web. While these legal disclaimers are to empower other users to share content, each network uses content differently. Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities states, ".you

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? Can we post their photos on Facebook or our Web Site? The chapter shares some examples what is permissible and what isn’t permissible political activities. What are the legal issues?