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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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Creative Commons Licensing Teachable Moment and An Apology!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So I complained in flickr , my blog and left a comment on the Tech Chronicles Blog. (I The original photo was published as "all rights reserved" because that's the flickr default and in 2005, I was pretty clueless about Creative Commons and copyright issues. To add insult to injury, the link was working! Isn't this ironic!!

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” What does that mean?".

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I've included the post below, but comments are best done on the HuffPo site above. We give inventors and authors a time-limited qualified monopoly on their creations to encourage them to bring them to other people through dissemination and commercialization, where appropriate. We just need thousands of projects rather than dozens.

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So You Think You Can Blog? Guidelines For New Bloggers

Care2

What's the time commitment? How often do they need to come back to respond to comments? The time commitment is often what makes new bloggers the most nervous so be really clear in setting these expectations in advance. Will you be moderating comments? Time Management. How often do you expect your bloggers to post?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » ABC Talks Nonprofit Tech

See3

It’s a big topic, but notice how much time she spent on web video! Unfortunately, Katrin neglected to mention DoGooderTV, but we know that next time she will give DoGooderTV, which hosted the NTEN – See3 Nonprofit Video Contest , a big plug. You can watch the video here.

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IP Protection for Software: Cake and Amish Barn Raising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. It also included a case studies, most notably the SCO vs Linux case which Zittrain, running out of time, condensed into 15 minutes. The license: ???I???m