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What you need to know about social media copyright

Sprout Social

Navigating social media copyright can be like sailing in uncharted waters. In this guide, we outline the specific practices your company should follow when posting to help avoid social media copyright infringement and protect your brand. With every new wave of social trends come unanticipated legal consequences.

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Why can’t AI content generators just follow the rules?

Martech

The article was based on research our firm conducted on the best in class social media practices of over 40 companies. The issue is that Open AI and Microsoft used copyrighted content owned by the Times, without paying for the rights to use it. The post Why can’t AI content generators just follow the rules? Get MarTech!

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How to Create Simple Social Media Rules for Employees

EveryoneSocial

Nearly 90% of companies use social media for business, but only half of the workers say their companies have social media rules for employees, according to a Pew Research poll. With almost 4 billion people using social media worldwide though, it’s increasingly important for companies to have an official social policy.

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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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Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content

Contently

The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike. What is social media plagiarism? LinkedIn and Facebook , for example, allow users to report posts that infringe on content copyrights.

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Is Your Brand Breaking the Law on Social Media?

Content Marketing Institute

Ambiguous rules and lax enforcement of resharing original content on social media has perpetuated the theft of the creators’ intellectual property. are more likely to enforce their legal and moral rights in the growing multibillion-dollar social media industry. Click To Tweet. Fair use” isn’t what it sounds like.

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Top 5 XR and AI marketing trends in 2023

Martech

Think social media management, marketing briefs, email campaigns and, of course, content. Those with enough cash can create AI-driven versions of themselves that can stand in on virtual meetings, write and respond to emails, attend virtual conferences, star in social media posts and so much more. And why not? Super smart!