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Tips Tuesday – Social Video Music License, AI Copyright Issues, Dustin Hyle Podcast

ByMaAnna Stephenson

Hello Happy Site Owners and Webmasters!

Tips Tuesday – Social Video Music License, AI Copyright Issues, Dustin Hyle Podcast

Tips this week include:

  • A podcast featuring our favorite hosting owner and dev, Dustin Hyle
  • The clock is winding down on BlogAid Holiday Deals with $100 off courses
  • Bounce Rate in Google Analytics 4 vs Universal Analytics
  • Outbound click tracking in GA4
  • A new Landing Page report is rolling out for GA4
  • Why to be super careful about the music you use on social videos
  • Issues with AI generated content – check the copyright and license
  • What all these paid AI services are based on
  • Why OpenAI stands to make $1 billion profit in 2024

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BlogAid Happenings

Happy holiday week! I know most of y’all are making plans for your holiday festivities or wrapping things up with your business to take a break. So, we’ll keep it short this week.

Dustin Hyle Featured on Niche Pursuits Podcast

While you’re taking a break, be sure to check out this Niche Pursuits podcast featuring our favorite hosting and site tech person, Dustin Hyle.

I honestly don’t know how I ran BlogAid without Dustin’s help. And I’m beyond thrilled that he started Iridium Hosting where me and all of my clients and most of my webmasters and their clients have moved.

We get better speed and security, and 1000x better support.

So go listen to that podcast.

Site Services Update

The wait list for all services is running into mid January. If you’re ready to get your site fast and secure for 2023, now is the time to put in your audit request.

Consults are still on-demand. So, if you’re ready to make a plan for more eyeballs and more money in 2023, contact me.

BlogAid Course Happenings

Get $100 Off BlogAid Courses

Quick reminder that all BlogAid courses are on holiday sale.

Right now you can get up to $100 off on:

  • Ultimate Google Analytics 4 Course for Bloggers
  • DIY SEO – and we’re really shaking things up for our workshops next year
  • Webmaster Training – if you touch the back side of sites, you need this course

Quick GA4 Info

Want to know more about how GA4 works? 

Here are my latest 2 posts and videos with a peek inside:

New in GA4

Woot! GA4 has rolled out a new Landing Page report. It’s under Engagement in the Standard Reports.

It shows:

  • Views
  • New users
  • Average engagement time per session

I’ll be adding this to the Standard Reports section of the GA4 for Bloggers course.

But, I already have a much better Explore report tutorial that shows these metrics and other helpful ones beyond just New Users. You want to see all users, right? And you can only get that by creating a custom Explore report.

That’s all the happenings around here. Let’s jump into this week’s news and tips.

Social Video Tips

Be careful what music you use

On TikTok, I see a lot of folks use a personal profile instead of business account because they can’t get all of the trending music on the biz account.

There’s a reason for that. It’s about licensing.

TikTok has 2 separate license agreements for how music is used on their app.

And if you’re using the music to sell something, you need a commercial license.

Thankfully I only have one video with trending music on it, and I’m thinking about taking it down, as music labels are starting to really enforce that copyright and license agreements with platforms.

This is also why you don’t want to share the same video across multiple platforms if you used music from one of the apps. It may not be licensed on the other app. Plus, it may not be trending on the other app either.

AI Tips

AI Generated Content – Copyright and Licensing

I do encourage you to use AI copy generation tools to get ideas.

But, do not simply copy/paste that content to your site, or make products with it.

  • First, Google already has their own AI detectors running since this summer and they are REALLY cracking down on sites with AI generated content.
  • Second, one person assembled a graphic novel with AI generated copy and graphics. And the copyright office will not issue a copyright on the collected work. They want more proof of significant human creation.
  • Third, if you intend to make videos using AI generated voiceovers with those text-to-speech services, be SURE you read their Terms of Service and that you are using their commercially licensed product. Those voices and that service has a different license so that the generated material can be used on YouTube and other platforms for commercial promotion.

About Paid AI Services

OpenAI is the parent company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E.

They make money by selling a license for an API so other services can connect to their hardware.

When you’re looking at all these new specialized AI services, it’s very likely that they are running on OpenAI hardware. They are just feeding it very niche material that relates to what they are selling you.

So, that is the bulk of what you are paying for in these paid, 3rd party services.

Don’t assume that you have a license to use what you produce to promote your products.

FYI, OpenAI predicts that these 3rd party services are being built so fast that they expect to make $1 Billion in revenue in 2024, according to an article in Reuters.

Wrap Up

That’s a wrap for this week’s Tips Tuesday.

Thanks for sharing this podcast and post with your blogging buddies, and for leaving comments and reviews too.

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Be sure to visit BlogAid.net for more tips and resources and I’ll see you online.

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MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are secure, perform well, and get noticed by search engines and readers.

2 Comments

  1. Thanks for your tireless and impressive contributions to your tribe. Your mix of topical news and strong opinions is always welcome in my inbox. And your advice on AI is spot on. I write for artists in my business and freelance posts for the p/c insurance biz. While I find the AI tools helpful for research, I agree it’s a severe rookie/lazy mistake to copy and paste without proofing, fact-checking, and heavy editing to match the voice and tone of the publications I write for.

    The drawbacks are the copy is not unique to the user. The next person asking the same or similar questions will get the same responses. Readers and Google are smart enough to see the patterns eventually, if not immediately. Another concern is recency. For example, here is a partial return from a query about an industry outlook for 2023 from chat.openai.

    “I’m sorry, but I am not able to provide information about future events as my knowledge is limited to what has already happened up until September 2021. I also don’t have access to browse the internet or access current information.”

    1. Your comments are spot on, Barney. All AIs replies are based directly on the info they are fed. We are now doing that feeding of OpenAI with our queries and the info we are giving it.

      I heard that it is supposed to output unique text for every user when asked to generate titles or copy or ideas. Even if that is true, other AI copy checkers can spot a pattern.

      But more importantly, your point about editing for voice and what that person’s followers needs to hear is why we still need human touches on copy.

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