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Legal Versus Ethical: Web Scraping Edition

Webbiquity

However, there are other laws and legislations that guide web scraping, such as breach of contract, illegal access and use of data, trespass to chattels, and copyright infringement. Copyrighted material. Also, it is not possible to copyright ideas, only the representation or specific form of those ideas. Is the data copyrighted?

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Scout: Surging Ad Agency Employment, Generative AI Copyright Concerns, and More

QuanticMind

Each week, our team tracks down the best digital marketing articles, POVs, and reports—so you don't have to. Comedian Sarah Silverman’s recent lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta—in which she alleges the companies “copied and ingested” her copyrighted work to train their AI bots—underscores the need for regulation. Welcome to Scout!

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4 Consumer Privacy Tactics To Win Over Mistrustful Customers

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Given these attitudes, it’s easy for some data-dependent marketers to lose hope or feel it’s too late to recapture lost trust. Consumers want and expect the ability to control their personal data, retain the right “to be forgotten,” and actively manage their privacy preferences. Dig into data privacy law.

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Your LLM Gets Its Data From Where??

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

The bad: Scraped data may include copyrighted or trademarked material. The risk of copyright infringement exists with corpus data too, but is more pronounced with scraped data due to its nature. The good: Anyone can access and use this data without restrictions or fear of copyright infringement.

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AI ethics: How marketers should embrace innovation responsibly

Sprout Social

AI has actualized dreams of increased efficiency, with many brands already leveraging AI marketing over the past few years. In this article we’ll define what AI ethics are, why brands should be concerned and the top ethical issues facing marketers, including job security, misinformation and algorithmic bias.

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MarTech’s generative AI pledge

Martech

Complying with copyright laws, checking facts, eliminating bias, and, when feasible, crediting sources are just a few of the responsibilities our writers and contributors own. from generative AI; When working with proprietary data or assets, always turn on any privacy settings (ChatGPT for example).

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How to craft an effective AI use policy for marketing

Sprout Social

The emergence of artificial intelligence ( AI) in marketing is no exception. Why organizations need an AI use policy Marketers are already investing in AI to increase efficiency. Other well-known authors like George RR Martin and John Grisham too, are suing parent company, OpenAI, over copyright infringement.