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For my work, the answer is "yes," but this doesn't make me particularly happy.

Social networks are flooded with potential customers.

A social business engages the entire company, from CEO to executive assistant. Take advantage of the opportunity to foster your company’s internal community and teach valuable social media skills as the space rapidly grows and evolves.

You have a website, you want to put your email address on the site so that people can contact you easily but you are also worried about spam flooding your mailbox once your email address begins to appear on a public web page.

Yet we are trained to hold copyright as a natural right. People who infringe on copyright are labelled as pirates, thieves. We are told that they literally steal from hard-working creators.

Fourth myth: We know that copyright makes us collectively better off. The evidence points in the opposite direction. Germany had weak copyright laws up until the Copyright Act of 1901. Yet, maybe because of these weak laws, it became a literary and scientific power: (…), only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time – 10 times fewer than in Germany – and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900. (No Copyright Law The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? by Frank Thadeusz)

Without copyright, authors would not get paid.

For monitoring gang activity, police have a free intelligence-gathering tool at their disposal: social media. This is just one example from Newport Virginia.

“From the perspective of police investigators, this is an intelligence gold mine because this is open source information,” Knox said. “It’s due diligence for any police department to take that stuff seriously.”

But social media alone doesn’t finish the investigation, as police have to corroborate and confirm any information, Spencer said. To use Facebook information in court, police also need to file search warrants.

It’s interesting because Anchorman is about a newsman, and increasingly the news is getting their stories from what’s “trending” on social media. I think social is just going to continue to become more prominent in our society. You see it happening in very subtle ways but it’s common for newscasts these days to say what’s trending today. If someone has not fully bought into the power of social it’s just a matter of time because it’s really changing our culture. It’s changing the way news is reported and the way information is disseminated and the way that marketing is done.