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Share, Use, Remix: An Overview of Creative Commons

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Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ???

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is important to respect copyright laws. Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Wylio – This is a searchable archive of public domain or creative commons licensed photos that bloggers can use.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

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Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Creative Commons Licensing Teachable Moment and An Apology!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The original photo was published as "all rights reserved" because that's the flickr default and in 2005, I was pretty clueless about Creative Commons and copyright issues. of the power of the "by" license and had just turned my default to it. I've now become convinced. Isn't this ironic!!

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

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Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. Please visit the site to view this video). Currently the site has a billion users , who view 4 billion videos per day on average. The standard YouTube license is restrictive.

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How Use Creative Commons Licensing and Flickr To Find Powerful Visuals for Your Presentations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. Where can you find photos that aren't outrageously expensive or under copyright protection? Creative Commons Licenses. But not all.

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