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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.

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AI for Social Media: Supercharge Your Copy, Images & Videos

Forum One

We’ll share more after the session and dive into some of the questions we’ll tackle here: Everything’s changing so fast, is everyone already using AI? There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. If you aren’t attending NTC, don’t worry! We’re always eager to problem-solve with you.

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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

Candid

Today, we are celebrating our first anniversary of short-form video on TikTok , Instagram Reels , and YouTube Shorts. What began as a three-month experiment has now blossomed into a consistent social media video production program. Here is a snapshot of what happened and our tips for creating short-form videos at your nonprofit.

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

The Internet has gone "video." Within the next couple of years, video will account for 69 percent of all consumer Internet traffic. It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. Please visit the site to view this video). But is it legal?

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The Promise & Peril of Creator Tools Like ChatGPT for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The article reinforces the message we’ve shared for years that these tools can benefit nonprofits in many ways, especially small nonprofits. This is especially true with the advancing sophistication of recently released “creator tools,” (AI-infused tools that generate images, text, or videos).

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This YouTube video is from Kenneth Goldstein and it's hilarious. Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?