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Key Factors to Consider in Educational Resources Licensing

Kitaboo

Education requires the use of resources like textbooks, audiovisual media, activities, and other aspects. With that said, the creators of this online courseware – whether or not they are concerned with retaining the IP rights – must understand how educational resources licensing works. Let’s understand licensing in a bit more detail.

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Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

The Verge

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon. TMTG launched a special purpose acquisition company fundraising effort yesterday with promises to build a sweeping media empire.

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Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. 17 promise to reverse course. Unity, which has an office in Bellevue, Wash.,

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Media Revenue Models Framework: 12 categories of income sources for media companies

Trends in the Living Networks

As the world of media moves beyond its traditional boundaries, media operators need to broaden their thinking about potential revenue sources. In my recent article Creating the Future of Media: 4 Driving Forces, 4 Strategic Issues, 4 Essential Capabilities in Media Titles magazine I wanted to point to some of the possibilities.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0

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Analysis: Microsoft’s regulatory concessions in Activision deal may tamper Xbox ecosystem growth

GeekWire

(Activision Blizzard Image) Microsoft may end up controlling a shocking amount of the most popular, beloved video game franchises in modern media if its $69 billion bid to buy Activision Blizzard passes regulatory scrutiny. The EU will require Microsoft to automatically license “popular” Activision Blizzard games to competing cloud services.

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Rec Room teams up with NFL in latest partnership for Seattle gaming startup

GeekWire

Over the course of the last six years, both Rec Room and its player community have created thousands of pieces of virtual clothing for avatars to wear, such as hats, suits, T-shirts, and carried accessories. A new pop-up shop in the Rec Room app lets users purchase licensed NFL hoodies and hats for their avatars to wear.

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