The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Virtual world-building platform Roblox has settled a lawsuit with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and is negotiating potential deals with individual music publishers. Roblox announced the news this morning, saying it was “committed to partnering with the music industry.”. Music is a major element of Roblox.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and other artists without paying a licensing fee. The NMPA filed suit yesterday on behalf of several major music publishers. Image: Roblox.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

While Amazon has allowed companies to build skills for Alexa and allows pretty much any consumer electronic device maker to integrate Alexa into a compatible product, the e-commerce giant has not licensed the underlying AI tech for use in other assistant-like products. Amazon is calling the new offering Alexa Custom Assistant.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. And on the voice side, Adthos compiled a library of hundreds of synthetic voices, including — according to Wedel — “Emmy Award-winning” voice actors and talents.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Sure, there are no true PS5 games released yet, but the PlayStation VR still has a solid library of PS4 titles that you can check out, including Media Molecule’s 2020 game creation title Dreams. A rhythm game where you use lightsaber-like drumsticks to slice through musical beats? Image: Media Molecule. You can’t beat that.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Saturday Night Live ’s complete library will be available to stream on NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, Peacock , beginning October 1st, according to Variety and Deadline. It marks the first time in years that the entire library has been available on a mainstream streaming platform, and it’s a crucial cornerstone for Peacock.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Once upon a time, before the iPhone, you had to carry two devices: a cellphone and a separate music player, which may or may not have been an iPod. (Ed Your old phone can still work as a standalone media storage device, either to back up your library or for actual use. Ed note: Tell us another story about the Olden Times, Dad.)

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Take a look at what you have in your music library. You probably have music for different moods, activities, or times of day. As long as you’re a licensed user on a site, you can create a collection! Product Management Director, Tableau. Tanna Solberg. November 10, 2020 - 4:58pm. July 1, 2021.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

One of the things that makes TikTok so compelling is all of the music it licenses for use in videos. With Sound Kit, that library of music could theoretically become even bigger, without TikTok having to strike new deals with the big music labels. TikTok’s audio library could grow even larger.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If it’s a captioned/narrated video, the background music is very important. Just as in movie scores, the music can set the tone and enforce the message. A note about music: Do not use licensed music without permission. Free Music Archive: [link]. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

If you're creating a video, a podcast, an online training, or any other project that might benefit from adding some sweet tunes, the Free Music Archive (FMA) offers more than 80,000 free, completely legal-to-use audio downloads. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. Visit the Music for Video page.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library. images).

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Move beyond those content-consumption apps and into the games library and you’ll find a lot more dross and a lot less premium content than you would in the Google Play Store. If that’s you and you’re a Prime subscriber, the library of content Amazon has for you is impressive. It’s no Spotify or Apple Music, but it does the job.

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

Shorts users can already sample sounds from other Shorts videos (as well as from a library of licensed music). The YouTube-sampling tool will then roll out to other Shorts markets including the US in the coming weeks. But this update will greatly expand the audio they have easy access to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Kyle reports on a startup that wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images. First, Snap signs new music licensing deals with multiple labels around the world to expand its Snapchat Sounds library. Did you get permission first? Wait, there are rules? Big Tech Inc. Ivan had a pair of popular reads today.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.)

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Take a look at what you have in your music library. You probably have music for different moods, activities, or times of day. As long as you’re a licensed user on a site, you can create a collection! Mark Shulman. Product Manager, Tableau. Tanna Solberg. November 10, 2020 - 4:58pm. July 1, 2021.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Small Staff, Big Impact. Keeping History Protected.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An item might have a particular ability in one world (like playing music) that another world doesn’t support at all. And if companies approach them with deals for licensed characters or items, they could find a world already populated by knockoffs. Snow Crash’ was right: avatars are tough. This could change in the future.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Luckily, there are some great Internet safety resources that are specific for healthcare organizations , libraries , seniors , kids , and small offices (like the ones that most nonprofits have). It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Disney Plus is constantly changing and adding to its library, but here are some of the various things you can watch right now: Every Star Wars movie. The Broadway musical Hamilton (starting July 3rd). Marvel movies. Disney animated films. Pixar movies. Classic movies from the Disney Vault. Disney Channel movies and TV shows.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. Our Local Impact Map.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The lite version is a free online tool that allows you to add titles and music to a succession of photos, and the effect is incredible. By using the advanced search and clicking "Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon” I can usually find something good that is licensed “ Some rights reserved."

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

And literally allows you in a matter of minutes with templates, AI, stock licensed footage, music, all of it. But absolutely, I think everything from filters to different styles and templates, and the kind of music you use, and how videos are optimized by platform, it’s all evolving. That’s really hard. It’s a small business.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

AVOs are among the most important and most invisible building blocks of our communities: Members of all-volunteer organizations read to children, care for the dying, get clean water legislation passed, serve as volunteer fire departments, help people overcome alcoholism, bring music into prisons, and help refugees get settled.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. It was a magical hour.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I asked Phil if the thinking behind buying all of those studios was an attempt to have a full library of first-party content to start the engine of Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service. Which isn’t true in video and music today. They were licensing TV shows from networks that had no streaming capability of their own.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

It wasnt a flash-in-the-pan musical surprise. We decided, in this Season 8, to coincide with our fifth anniversary, to really embrace popular music in a big way, he said. And so, we ended up using throughout the entire season and in every episode we used popular music cues. Where does the unfamiliar music come from?

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

Google doesnt charge a license fee to implement its DRM tech, so theres little excuse for Walmart a $700 billion company to ship a tablet that isnt fully certified, even if its a cheapo model. The Onn offers similar features through Googles Kids Space mode, and both let you manage your childs screen time and app library.

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