<P> The terms "screencast" and "Screencam" are often used interchangeably, due to the market influence of ScreenCam as a screencasting product of the early 1990s . ScreenCam, however, is a federal trademark in the United States, whereas screencast is not trademarked and has established use in publications as part of Internet and Computing vernacular . </P> <P> Screencasts can help demonstrate and teach the use of software features . Creating a screencast helps software developers show off their work . Educators may also use screencasts as another means of integrating technology into the curriculum . Students can record video and audio as they demonstrate the proper procedure to solve a problem on an interactive whiteboard . </P> <P> Screencasts are useful tools for ordinary software users as well: They help filing report bugs in which the screencasts take the place of potentially unclear written explanations; they help showing others how a given task is accomplished in a specific software environment . </P> <P> Organizers of seminars may choose to routinely record complete seminars and make them available to all attendees for future reference and / or sell these recordings to people who cannot afford the fee of the live seminar or do not have the time to attend it . This will generate an additional revenue stream for the organizers and makes the knowledge available to a broader audience . </P>

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