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Tag: copyright
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Google Loses to Oracle, But You Can Still Use APIs
Google’s petition for appeal last October of a May 2014 Federal Circuit decision in favor of Oracle tried to make its case about more than it truly was: the copyrightability of the use of application programming interfaces.
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Just Because You Can Steal Content Doesn't Mean You Should
You just finished preparing your first presentation for that big seminar at the annual meeting with the coolest pictures you could find on Google images and Flicker, the slickest YouTube videos and the hottest tracks from Pandora.
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Google Dealing With 1M Data Takedown Requests Daily
Google is attempting to sink information pirates by processing more than one million takedown requests every day. The number of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), requests has rocketed since Google started making the information public and looks set to grow for the rest of the year.
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Connecting: Stealing Content and Other Copyright Issues
The Internet has turned a lot of honest people into thieves. People who wouldn't dream of walking out of a retail store without paying for a pack of gum have no remorse about stealing online content. Pictures. Blog posts. Funny videos.
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Big Data on the War to Protect Big Data - What Science Knows That Business Ignores
There is some new data on the war to protect enterprise data. Neither of these data points are they types of "big data" that you are used to, but that does not mean they are less important.
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Microsoft's SkyDrive to Get an Enforced Name Change
Microsoft is reportedly "glad" that it has to change the name of its global cloud storage service, after running foul of a U.K. TV broadcaster's trademark. We wonder what happens when something goes really wrong for the company.
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Digital Liability Management
The opposite of digital asset management might well be digital liability management. When a digital asset is erroneously released -- whatever the circumstance -- it can become a corporate liability in no time.
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Want This Here 'Used Digital Object'? Amazon Patents That Marketplace
Would you be interested in buying a “used digital object”? Amazon thinks that people will be, and it has just gotten a patent for such a secondary market. The patent, Patent no. 8,364,595, first filed in 2009 and then awarded on January 29 of this year, describes a system
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DAM Lowdown: Cumulus's Latest, Copyright Questions, DAM in Cloud or On Premises
DAM news has been slowing down over the past week, as DAMers anticipate and prep for the holidays. In this week’s digital asset management news, Cumulus fixes some bugs, copyright gets murky and WebDAM looks skyward. Cumulus Keeps Up with the Times With the release of version 8.6.1, Canto Cumulus
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Digital Content is Everywhere - Do You Know Who Owns the Copyright?
Actor and music lover Bruce Willis recently caused a media furore when it was thought he intended to take on Apple to win the right to leave his iTunes library in his will. The explosion of digital content has turned "copyright " into a term we all need to
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DAM Lowdown: NerVve Takes Quantum Leap, Razuna v1.5.2 Fixes Some Bugs
What a DAM week it’s been. In digital asset management news, Quantum finds a NerVve, there’s another Razuna release, CMSWire contributors debate DAM News, a new eMam emerges, and orphaned works find a home. Some NerVve The idiosyncratically-capitalized NerVve Technologies specializes in automated video indexing and search capabilities, and it
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BOLT Makes Visual Content Collecting & Sharing Platform Public
Last April, we introduced you to BOLT, a new page-sharing service. For the last year, BOLT has been in private beta, where a select group of users have been experimenting, and refining the way we collect, share and save any webpage, image or file.
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Pinterest Updates Terms of Service, Copyright Rules
Pinterest announced revisions to its Terms of Service, removing its right to sell user-contributed content and releasing simpler tools for copyright infringement reporting. Pinterest users were alerted by email last week of the Terms revisions and the notice was also posted on the Pinterest blog. Pinterest Interest Since its
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Pinterest Addresses Copyright Issues with Minimalist Policy
The bane of innovators and most muddled aspect of technology for all, copyright infringement interrogations now land on the plate of those behind Pinterest.
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