What’s stealing and what’s fair use of web content?

May 15, 2013
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Updated, with new information about Creative Commons, on 27 Sept. 2015. During a class on how news organizations use social media, one of my students asked if it was OK to republish any photo that appeared on Facebook, Twitter, or Weibo, the Chinese Twitter.  Ellyn Angelotti,Poynter Institute There is no simple answer to this question, […]

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Internet excesses recall Shakespeare’s time

May 16, 2011
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Along with the decline of youth morals, a favorite topic of people of a certain age is the decay of the language. The idea that there was a Golden Age of morals and language, now corrupted in our decadent time, has been a literary topic for a couple of thousand years. It is part of […]

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