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Share, Use, Remix: An Overview of Creative Commons

NTEN

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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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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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. One thing you'll notice is that the presentation itself is a remix of a remix. I remixed it from an earlier prsentation called Associations 2.0 Mashup or: Why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix.

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remix this Powerpoint. If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. (If

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Remember the aim is to have your content turn up in searches for media that is suitable for remix. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is good curation versus bad curation? The image is a remix of a presentation entitled ” Link Building by Imitation ” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well. ” He says that copyright infringement is not theft.

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Tencent backs digital rights startup Pex in $57M round

TechCrunch

Founder and CEO Rasty Turek told me that while the product has evolved from what he described as “a Google-like search engine for rightsholders to find copyright infringement” into a broader platform, the vision of creating a better system of managing copyright and payments online has remained the same. Pex CEO Rasty Turek.

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