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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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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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What Do Contractors Own? A Guide to Freelance Copyright

Hubspot

So, at 13 years old, my friend and I looked up copyright laws to see what our rights were … I'm not kidding. Although a bit upset that I'm not a famous songwriter, learning about copyright laws turned out to be useful in my writing career. Here, we'll review the basic copyright laws regarding freelance work. Freelance Copyright.

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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. Why You Need Social Media Rules for Employees. Providing rules and recommendations can help alleviate these concerns. Here’s why. Protects the company.

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New TOS for AI-powered Bing poses legal issues for Microsoft and users

Martech

While AI-generated output can’t be copyrighted, can it violate other people’s copyrights? It also says any “creations” generated by the AI can only be used for personal, non-commercial purposes. Something that appears at odds with the Copyright Office’s ruling that AI creations can’t be copyrighted.

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Top 5 XR and AI marketing trends in 2023

Martech

Rapidly disrupting our personal and professional environments like a runaway train, AI is poised to be more impactful than the internet. While the benefits of using AI for practical marketing tasks, like writing blog posts or emails, are apparent, the true power of these new tools is the ability to scale personalization.

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What Does AI Transparency Look Like? It Depends on Your Industry

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

This lack of transparency threatens privacy and security, and fosters uncompensated use of copyrighted content, according to Senate testimony by Ramayya Krishnan, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. And that’s being charitable.