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Legal Versus Ethical: Web Scraping Edition

Webbiquity

However, the legality and ethics of using these tools for data collection are often overlooked. Not paying attention to these aspects of web scraping could lead to serious ethical controversies and lawsuits. The CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) and other similar state laws are the legal basis for claims in web scraping disputes.

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Stolen Thought Leadership / The Ethics of Aggregating Content (alt title: Stolen Goods: The Dangers of Plagiarized Content)

Contently

In 1709 the British parliament ratified the Statute of Anne, the world’s first copyright act that granted book publishers exclusive rights to their content for an initial 14 years. Last month Google processed its five-billionth takedown request from copyright holders. FuckJerry’s value is their 14.3m One was deleted.

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How to Legally and Ethically Curate Content

Scoop.it

But as with most content marketing strategies, there’s a fine line between what’s legal/ethical and what’s not. Content curation is basically the act of finding existing content that’s already being shared online and bringing it to your own audience. Like any other creative work, digital content is protected by certain copyright laws.

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Marketing leaders, are you actually ready for AI?

Martech

How are copyrights handled (time to engage legal)? Content ethics. Communicating how your company thinks about AI ethics may not be top of mind. Similar to how you publish data privacy compliance information, you should be thinking about publishing an AI ethics statement. Now’s the time to act on this.

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How CMOs should respond to ChatGPT’s marketing impact

Martech

Staff should be sourced and evaluated on the ability to act as editors and supervisors for machine-generated marketing copy and proposals, such as agency creative briefs. Gartner expects 70% of enterprise CMOs will identify accountability for the ethical use of AI among their top concerns by 2025.

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How to craft an effective AI use policy for marketing

Sprout Social

Other well-known authors like George RR Martin and John Grisham too, are suing parent company, OpenAI, over copyright infringement. In fact, the pattern mirrors the early days of cloud computing when the technology felt like unchartered territory. Yet today, cloud computing is ubiquitous. What is the foundational layer?”

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How To Put AI To Work for Better Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Here’s what they say you should – and shouldn’t – do: Do: Use AI for writing and editing assistance Generative AI tools can help you overcome lank-page syndrome” by acting as your research and brainstorming buddy. These versatile tools can speed up tedious production tasks and spare writers the frustration of staring at a blank page.