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Tag: copyright
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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 th
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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 Goo
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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.
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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 someth
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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
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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,
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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
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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 con
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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
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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 coll
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YouTube Introduces Creative Commons Licensing in Videos, Cloud-Based Editor
Licensing content can be a headache, especially for authors and developers who wish to use other persons' or groups' work in their own. While photo-sharing sites have long since advocated the use of C
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Wyden Blocks 'PROTECT IP' Copyright Bill, Citing 'Overreaches' that Threaten the Internet
In a repeat of 2010, when he killed the "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" (COICA), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has singlehandedly essentially killed the "Preve
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2011's 'PROTECT-IP' Copyright Bill Even Worse than 2010's 'COICA'
Last year, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) put forth The "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" (COICA), which was purported to protect copyright holders from having their cont
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BO.LT Page-Sharing Service: Easy Content Spread or Copyright Threat?
After almost a year in private beta, BO.LT, a new page-sharing service, launches today. What’s a page-sharing service? Isn’t that what a hyperlink is for? Can’t we already share ever
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