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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. That includes your organization. We are in pretty good company.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea. This use of the copyright law to encourage copying is refered to in FOSS circles as Copyleft. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. For nonprofits that sell products online, Aradium offers their service to legal 501c3 organizations for free. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Based in the U.K.,

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