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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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AI ethics: How marketers should embrace innovation responsibly

Sprout Social

Although it has sparked excitement and enthusiasm, there are concerns surrounding the ethics of AI. And with works like Parable of the Sower, the Machine and I, Robot within the cultural zeitgeist, it’s understandable why sci-fi fans, researchers and technologists alike warn of the dangers of ignoring AI ethics.

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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. Market research or consumer surveys relevant to your audience, for example, could be expanded through social video posts. How to avoid plagiarizing content. Be inspired.

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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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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. There’s not much independent auditing happening, anyway.

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

Martech

“Students in Europe are just now writing research papers versus students in the U.K. 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.

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How Top Brands are Accelerating SEO Content Creation with AI

Content Standard

At the same time, Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer research cites search engines as the source consumers most trust for news and information—outstripping trust in traditional, owned, and social media channels. Ownable IP: Per the latest guidance from the U.S. The result?