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Key Factors to Consider in Educational Resources Licensing

Kitaboo

Traditionally, books were the only medium used (in addition to chalkboards) to help students learn. 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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India says not to preorder Starlink until it obtains a license

The Verge

India has instructed the public not to preorder Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet service, according to a report from Reuters. As the report notes, the Indian government says that the company needs to obtain a license to operate in the country before it starts deploying its services. Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge.

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The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book

Crafty CTO

A Book Encounter While browsing the lake house bookshelves, John stumbled across Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices and was immediately hooked. I can recall my father’s enthusiasm for the book, along with its author George Leonard Herter and his catalog business Herter’s. What’s a Bull Cook?

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How to Ensure Secure Distribution of Digital Books with DRM

Kitaboo

The Internet and emerging digital technologies have made online publishing quite simple. While the Internet offers a host of advantages, its nature is such that it makes sharing easy and monitoring extremely difficult. You can secure distribution of your digital books by adding an extra layer of protection with DRM.

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The Digital Leap: Mastering ePublishing in the Digital Era

Kitaboo

These digital materials are then disseminated through the Internet or other digital media. All the additional steps of book publishing, such as printing, binding and storing, are eliminated, thereby producing books for consumption in a timely manner. ePublishing makes updating information on books fast and convenient.

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A poster’s guide to who’s selling your data to train AI 

Vox

If you’ve ever posted anything on the internet, chances are that your data has already been scraped, collected, and used to train AI systems like the ones powering ChatGPT, Midjourney , and Sora. Generative AI is designed to succeed as a generalist, and learning to do so, OpenAI has said, requires “ internet-scale ” data to train on.

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eBook Protection Perfected: Creating DRM-Protected Masterpieces

Kitaboo

For authors and content creators, the Internet is a great platform to publish and promote their work. However, the downside is that the ease of sharing content on the Internet gives rise to the inherent risks of piracy and copyright infringement. Safeguards Income Streams Publishing eBooks is cheaper than publishing physical books.

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