Remove Copyright Remove License Remove Twitter
article thumbnail

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. Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities states, ".you

article thumbnail

What happens when a virtual streamer doesn’t own her body?

The Verge

Projekt Melody briefly disappeared from Twitch due to a copyright dispute over her body Projekt Melody swears her body belongs to her — the purple hair, the cat-eared bow, and all the barely there clothing that strategically covers her up. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Melody was banned from Twitch. million followers.

Virtual 122
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fortnite honors Renegade creator Jalaiah Harmon with her own in-game emote

The Verge

The Twitter account for Fortnite openly cites Harmon, writing , “Go, go, go, go, let’s go and bust out some [fire] moves by @jalaiah.”. It’s not clear whether Epic and Harmon struck some type of licensing deal, but it’s a possibility considering the developer’s rocky legal history with dance emotes.

Game 124
article thumbnail

What exactly is the Jodorowsky’s Dune crypto collective trying to make, anyway?

The Verge

The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. On Twitter, Spice DAO noted that it planned to “sell it to a streaming service” in the long term. the Twitter account responded.

Script 105
article thumbnail

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.

Channel 76
article thumbnail

Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) twitter can’t do that What do you think?

article thumbnail

A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Some of the social media properties we manage and curate established are: Conversation and Community.