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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. Copyrighted material. Ethics of web scraping. Web scraping: An overview. Illegal access and use of data.

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

Contently

Here are four tips to help you build better content creation practices by getting inspired and taking inspiration from others—without crossing any ethical lines. LinkedIn and Facebook , for example, allow users to report posts that infringe on content copyrights. The Ethics of Social Media Content appeared first on Contently.

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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. Only four were original content. One was deleted.

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How to Legally and Ethically Curate Content

Scoop.it

If you’ve spent any time on this blog, you know that content curation is the main focal point – and for good reason. But as with most content marketing strategies, there’s a fine line between what’s legal/ethical and what’s not. That includes a blog article, image, video, or anything else that somebody created.”.

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Guidelines for Responsible Content Creation with Generative AI

Contently

It means we must prioritize AI ethics in a way we never have before. This brings several ethical questions to the forefront, including: Who owns the copyright to AI-generated content? What ethical standards should be present to ensure responsible content creation? Why does AI ethics matter? The stakes are high.

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Five Reasons Not to Trust AI to Write Your Content

Trade Press Services Newsletter

With AI tools that generate website copy, blogs, sales emails and social media posts at the click of a button, it’s easy to be tempted by the promise of quick and easy content production. Legal and ethical concerns cannot be overlooked. This infringes on copyright laws and can open companies up to claims of plagiarism.

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Top 5 XR and AI marketing trends in 2023

Martech

As a society, we need to collectively hit the pause button and work out how to harness this technology ethically and responsibly. We must understand, embrace and learn how to incorporate these tools into our work ethically. copyright laws, so anyone can use that content if you use a tool like Midjourney to create an image.