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Your Copyright Notice Status Update On Facebook Is Worthless
Update: In 2014 I now have many more friends on Facebook so I’m seeing this Facebook copyright notice nonsense again. It was worthless in 2012, and it’s still worthless in 2014. Original Post:...
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Copyright and Attribution on Instagram
instagram copyright You’re familiar with the hugely popular photo- (and video) sharing app called Instagram, right? That’s more of a rhetorical question, really, since you’ve come to my site. I’ll...
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Creative Commons Licenses Explained In Plain English
One of the best ways to find usable copyrighted works, especially images, is to find someone who wants to share their work under a Creative Commons license. Since 2002, Creative Commons has been...
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Who Owns The Oscars Photo That Broke Twitter
Oscar Photos By now you’ve likely seen the above photo. The one Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres posted to her Twitter account during the 2014 Oscars telecast. You know, the one taken with the new Samsung...
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The Insider’s Guide to Online Photo Use
You know in passing when you say to someone “We should do a G+ hangout!” and they say yes, that’s how this happened. While I’ve written about Photo Copyright on several different sites, Peg...
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The Difference Between Copyright and Trademark And Why You Need to Know
It’s not uncommon to find a news article that misuses copyright and trademark, as if they are interchangeable. Sometimes, even lawyers misunderstand their differences. But you don’t have to make their...
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The Difference Between Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism
I think it’s in high school when most of us had the concept of plagiarism shoved down our throat. It was all part of the lessons about citations and the MLA format or the Chicago Style Manual or...
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Legal Ins and Outs of Live Streaming in Public
Live streaming has been around for a number of years. But until Meerkat and Periscope we didn’t have a very portable way to live stream video. There was Google Hangouts, which is a live streaming...
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Avoiding Copyright Infringement When Sharing Other People’s Work
Some people like to call it ‘content curation’. Really, it’s just a fancy way to say you want to share work that is not yours. In theory, this sounds like a really nice thing, sharing someone’s work...
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Will Using a Social Media Hashtag Really Make You Legally Liable to Delta...
It appears that on or about December 20, 2017 Delta Airlines updated their SkyMiles Program Rules to include a section entitled “User-Generated Social Media Image Rights” whereby you would grant a...
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