How you can tell if a song/video/blog post is okay for you to use or not?

So how you can tell if a song/video/blog post is okay for you to use or not?.


If  you use samples of music by other authors in your work, ensure that you get permission to use the work before you attempt to publish or sell your work. Similarly, if you use loops or samples available via sample collections etc. ensure that these are licensed as free to use, or obtain permission first.


If you need to get permission to use a piece of music, normally the best place to start is with the last know publisher for the work. They will certainly know how to get permission to use the work.


 Where music is written as a group effort, we recommend that you draw up an agreement to clarify issues, such as which rights belong to which member, and how royalties would be distributed in the event that members of your group leave.

For successful commercial bands, incorporation is also an option. As with a normal incorporated company, the band members would own shares in the band/company. In this situation, a band member would typically sell his shares to the other members if he decided to leave.

Copyright does not apply to names, neither will it apply to single phrases or slogans. Names may however be regionally protected as a trademark which may be carried out via national patent and trademark offices. To qualify the name should be distinctive, not deceptive or contrary to law or morality, and not similar to previously registered band names. 

Lower League Football

Match day in the lower Leagues piece
I love football but I think there’s a problem and that is kids these days are choosing their football club from the premier league. Little Jimmy supports Manchester United and his favourite player is Rooney. Tom supports Chelsea and his favourite player is Torres. Well I’m Olly and I support Yeovil Town and my favourite player is Luke Ayling.
Lower League football provides some of the best atmospheres you can get. Never mind Manchester City and Manchester United or Chelsea and Arsenal. Every game in League 1 is special.
My experience of these games provide me with some of the reasons why it is worth supporting or at least following a league side. Yeovil Town the club I proudly support stand mid-table in League 1. At Christmas you may be horrified to hear they were 24th, the magic of league 1 (and a manager who knows what he is doing).
When you go to these matches especially Yeovil one thing will immediately strike you and that is most of the teams down in League 1 and League 2 struggle to get that many people going to the games. It averages around 10,000 with teams like Sheffield Wednesday and Charlton boosting these averages.
At Yeovil there are certain game time traditions. Of course the fans giving the other fans a round of a applause for coming down to support their team. Apart from Bristol Rovers... The usual matchday programme with the hopeful manager program notes and also the ‘olays’ for the players when the names are called. Then the game is kicked off and inevitably after a few minutes some Somerset farmer will start complaining about something whether it be the goal we just let in or a failed skill. Then usually the witty chants start coming out from the 3,000 Yeovil fans ‘You only sing when you’re winning’, and usually when we are losing something a bit ruder. But then a refereeing decision leads to a cry of ‘c’mon’ ref and should have gone to specsavers. All quite funny to hear when said in a deep somerset accent. In fact one of the phrases that people struggle to understand in ‘c’mon yeo’ although it sounds more like ‘cmo yuh’. At half times there is a rush to the cafe, people getting the traditional beefy drink bovril. The meaty drink giving relief to your frozen tongue. One of the best parts of league 1 football are the men who try and get you to buy raffle tickets nothing can beat the echoing boom of ‘anyone for a golden gaaaamble’. Then when the gamble is made and the person who has won has collected their £50. The game then starts again and we may score (cue chelsea dagger). Then other songs ‘Shall we sing a song for you’ being my favourite. If we do score again then you are in for a nervy last bit. For some reason lower league teams have a tendency to deliberately try and let in a goal. But this just adds to the excitement. If your team wins it means a lot.

So give lower league football a chance, really it’s quite good.

Public Domain

Sounds boring
Looks Boring
Its the kind of phrase that doesn't interest many people.

PUBLIC DOMAIN:

defined as ...

... the status of a published work or invention upon which the copyright or patent has expired

or

which has not been...

patented or subject to copyright. It may thus be freely used by the public.

by Dictionary.com

but I am interested in what it says in plain english

 the first bit is easy.

It basically means

property rights that are held by the public at large

or

Publically owned rights 

Still think its boring...

...Oh

it's not that boring

ICT

http://vimeo.com/37119711

Frictionless sharing

http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2012/01/facebook-timeline.php

Frictionless sharing is Facebook’s new model for more digestible (both psychologically and technically) social sharing. In other words, Facebook has redefined sharing. This is shown as above ^...

There are two components to frictionless sharing:

Gestures That Make Sense – Facebook is now allowing app developers to use gestures other than“like” for news feed stories. An example may be, it says that I just “completed” a run with Runkeeper (by the way, I can run further than .27 miles…).“Completed” works better because although I definitely completed the run, I may have not “liked” it.

Permission Hurdles Removed – Timeline apps asks permission only once to access and share a user’s data. As shown below in the RunKeeper app, it’s easier for me to understand what the app needs to work. The app authorization also lists activities that will appear, and allows me to choose 

However is this a bad thing, is this 'frictionless sharing' really how WE want to share or is it how we are WANTED to share.

Frictionless, it means that it is without resistance. Could this mean that its not the boring, hard and tedious way of sharing YES but does it also mean our privacy is in jeopardy YES.

But in simple English is this the problem that Meg pickard has picked up on here 

http://www.megpickard.com/archive/meg-pickard-just-published-a-blog-post-about-frictionless-sharing-and-facebook/

1. “I hate that [app] shares things WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!”
2. “But I don’t CARE if my friend has just been to a place/listened to a song/watched a movie/read an article. I wish it wouldn’t pollute my newsfeed!”
3. “Ugh! I don’t want to share EVERYTHING with EVERYONE all the time!”

I don't care if James Lamming just listened to Love Story by Taylor Swift or if Hussain Shah just ate a pear.


But what Frictionless sharing does is it helps you share easily. 

Facebook-There's more behind it than YOU might think

Facebook... Known to many as the online world where they can poke, play and chat. Or find out what last night's homework was.

If it wasn't for Mr. Feinburg then I wouldn't understand the 'DATA USE POLICY' which may seem boring but is very important. In this post I will go through the different parts of the policy and break them down into every day language

1. Information we recieve and how it is used

For me this would seem to be messages, we recieve on Facebook...so for example James saying "Do you want to got to the park" the second part is important though especially now after the riots where social networking sites were used to promote the rioting. So my example of information we recieve being used wrongly would be James saying "Do you want to go to the park to vandalise swings" Yes this is on a less major scale but Facebook would be able to intervene to prevent crimes just like in the riots it says this in 'Other information we recieve about you' "We receive data about you whenever you interact with Facebook, such as when you look at another person's profile, send someone a message, search for a friend or a Page, click on an ad, or purchase Facebook Credits". But also about the information FACEBOOK recieves about you, (your registration information, information you choose to share. Facebook says that it uses the information it recieves to:

• Keep Facebook safe
• Provide you with services
• Make suggestions to you

AND IN ORDER TO DO THIS FACEBOOK SAYS IT MUST HAVE:

• Had your permission
• Given you notice

2. Sharing and finding you on Facebook

Over the past few years due to concerns from parents and a few incidents with people on Facebook, the 'Facebook Team' has controlled its Sharing and Finding I am impressed that you can choose which audience your post goes to whoever you want it to. Just your closest friends, your friends, your friends of friends or everyone. Going back to my example james would send the post to 'friends'.

3. Sharing with other websites and applications

Social Plug-Ins (see picture right) are EXTREMELY popular. Social plugins are buttons, boxes, and stories (such as the Like button) that other websites can use to present Facebook content to you and create more social and personal experiences for you. While you view these buttons, boxes, and stories on other sites, the content comes directly from Facebook. Facebook keeps the information about you using a plug in for 90 days then deletes it.

The Facebook Hangover

4. How advertising works

Is this how Facebook  makes its money...YES but Facebook has tried to make the ad's more...

• relevant
• interesting
• suited to YOU

'Facebook Ads are sometimes paired with social actions your friends have taken. For example, an ad for a sushi restaurant may be paired with a news story that one of your friends likes that restaurant's Facebook page.' This is how Facebook appears to be tackling the problem.

5. Minors and Safety


'We take safety issues very seriously, especially with children, and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet practices. To learn more, visit our Safety Center.

To protect minors, we may put special safeguards in place (such as placing restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect with them), recognizing this may provide minors a more limited experience on Facebook.' That quote is showing Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg putting the pressure on the parents to educate the children about what is right and wrong on the web interestingly as many parents prevent their children from using Facebook as the parents themselves don't understand it either!


6. Some other things you need to know

This goes through legal procedures, cookies and various other things 'you need to know'

And I think that covers it !

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