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Winnie-the-Pooh and around 400,000 early sound recordings enter public domain

The Verge

The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain , which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law.

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

Tech Soup

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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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

Tech Soup

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?

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Is the music industry’s future on the blockchain?

The Verge

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. They love dance music. The future of music. Why everybody hates record labels. million in sales.

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Tencent backs digital rights startup Pex in $57M round

TechCrunch

The round comes from existing investors including Susa Ventures and Illuminate Ventures, as well as Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment, the CueBall Group, NexGen Ventures Partners, Amaranthine and others. Founded in 2014, Pex had previously raised $7 million , and it acquired music rights startup Dubset last year.

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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.