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Legal Versus Ethical: Web Scraping Edition

Webbiquity

Web scraping consists of the following interconnected phases: Website analysis. Website analysis requires you to examine the underlying structure of websites or online databases to understand how the data is stored. Building an API can also be very helpful in data collection. Copyrighted material. Is the data copyrighted?

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What’s the Big Deal About Open Source Software Licensing Issues? (Asking for a Friend)

Aberdeen

In this particular case, the code in question involved application programming interfaces (APIs) and culminated in the recent 6-2 decision by the US Supreme Court — which ruled that Google’s copying and use of the Java API constitutes “fair use” under copyright law. Hidden Threats to Your Codebase. Contact us.

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AI Voice Cloning: Everything You Need to Know For Now

Spiralytics

Many argue that it’s the first viral AI-generated song , receiving over 230,000 views on YouTube and 625,000 streams on Spotify before copyright strikes from Universal Music Group—the artists’ label—took it down. These instances put into question whether or not artists and content creators should copyright their voices.

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The Etiquette of Web Scraping and How to Use Web Scraping Legally

Webbiquity

They include using online services, APIs, or even creating your own code from scratch. Large websites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook expose APIs to access their data in a structured format. Web scraping is legal and ethical if you are extracting data only for personal use and analysis. Don’t violate copyright law.

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5 Key Digital Marketing Hires Every Publisher Needs to Make

Hubspot

Skills needed: Proficient writer, early adopter, quick learner, personable nature, good judgment, familiarity with each social media channel’s policies, conversant with intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks, etc.) Expert analysis of that data allows your marketing team to make good decisions. Marketing Analyst.

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New Communication Tech and Work Literacy Presentation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Copyright Violation. Developers & API. Flag as inappropriate. Flag as inappropriate. Select your reason for flagging this slideshow as inappropriate. If needed, use the feedback form to let us know more details. Pornographic. Defamatory. Illegal/Unlawful. Slideshow transcript. ® Confronting and solving unforeseen problems. Quick Tour.

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The Ultimate Glossary: 101 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained

Hubspot

A Application Programing Interface (API) - An API is a documented interface that allows one software application to to interact with another application. An example of this is the Twitter API. Using APIs, Seesmic allows users to share content on social networks such as Twitter and Google Buzz from the same application.