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Twitch’s Soundtrack feature debuts today, and it will let streamers play music while they’re live

The Verge

The issue that Soundtrack is solving is pretty simple: if music is copyrighted, you can’t use it while you’re streaming unless you have the rights to those songs. If you do happen to use copyrighted music during a broadcast, there’s not a whole lot Twitch can necessarily do because it’s being played live.

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Uppbeat launches a freemium music platform aimed at YouTubers

TechCrunch

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example. Browsing Uppbeat’s catalog is easy, too.

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UK music platform for creators Uppbeat raises $6.15 million Series A

TechCrunch

First launched in January 2021, Uppbeat helps to eliminate the headaches that come with copyright claims on music used within creator content. Leveraging a freemium model, Uppbeat allows creators to sign up for an account that provides access to around 50% of the site’s catalog and provides 10 downloads per month.

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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). UpCodes’ building code database is at the center of the lawsuit, because it contains material the ICC claims copyright on. ” Can the law be copyrighted?

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Bookshare.org and Lobster

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We just did a site upgrade on Bookshare.org : our third in as many months. can easily see which books have global permissions, which are required when we can't rely on our copyright exemption (which only works inside the U.S.). Among the dozens of improvements in this update are two that I'm particularly jazzed about.

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Read the Fine Print: Who Actually Owns Your Website?

Byte Technology

Too many people who hire an individual designer or firm to build and launch their website often don’t pay special attention to the fine print of a contract and are shocked to learn—usually after the site goes live—that they have less control over changes, edits and general administration than they thought. The problem with this relationship?

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Project Gucciberg offers classic audiobooks read by an AI deepfake of Gucci Mane

The Verge

Gucci’s pronunciation follows a very particular cadence — he uses a much greater variety of vowel sounds, for instance, than your average TTS reader would,” says Greenberg. The results are impressive: the deepfake certainly sounds like the man himself, though the results are not always totally coherent or of the greatest quality.

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