Copyright and the crowdsourcing of promotional materials
document Distributed KnowledgeA good read on how information on social sites could be used for promotions.
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Earlier this morning I had an assignment that's amounted to an exercise in just how "meta" this crowdsourced world has become.
A good read on how information on social sites could be used for promotions.
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