Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

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.” The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Update: Here's an email response I received from Amalyah who is an IP for museums expert: Munch's works are still protected by copyright, the term of which runs not. Munch died in 1944, so he is "in copyright" until 2014. have cleared copyright permission, because I just googled and don't see anything. Google must.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Signs of a progressive attitude towards copyrighted stuff too: "Mr Highfield said the BBC would not be hunting down all BBC-copyrighted clips already. infringed other people's copyright, like sport, or that had been edited or. uploaded by YouTube members - although it would reserve the right to swap.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Direct Link to " Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law " Museum, Education, and Library IT networks have special interest or affinity groups on the topic of copyright and fair use. The MCN (Museum Computer Network) Intellectual Property Special Internet Group is chaired by. Amalyah Keshet.

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MARCH 1, 2007

How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? They see copyright law as a way to control the way their message is distributed. In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

I can't share the specifics because of copyright issues, but it was informative to hear the lawyer's perspective and it has prompted some important insights for me. we do have information and other policies that cover things like personal use of the internet, phone etiquette, crimes against humanity, copyright, bad attitude, and ugly pants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

Unfortunately, most of the photos are under an "All Rights Reserved" copyright which can be a barrier to spreading them because you have to ask permission. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without the artist's permission, works protected by copyright -- wherever they are displayed -- except for certain very limited purposes, and property, privacy, and contract law may indeed preempt that. It's really out of our hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

" She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse , shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com. The State of Play is a law and technology academy built in a virtual world. just email her at gelman at Stanford dot edu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Later, I went and looked over at blip.tv Music by Imogen Heap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

I'm going to quote them here: Is the subject of the photo copyrighted? If the photo is of, say, a TV screen showing a newscast or a newspaper page showing a staff photo, then you still might be liable for copyright violation despite the terms of the CC license listed on Flickr or elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things. site that has photos, etc., where derivative work is allowed is a great tool for the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license? The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

Copyright and privacy guidelines for sharing photos. Come take part in TechSoup's free, one-day online event, Tuesday Mar. 25, in the TechSoup Emerging Technologies Forum as we discuss issues such as: Benefits of using online photo sharing sites to build community and awareness for your cause. How to easily upload and manage your photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? How do we respond without creating any -potential liability for our organization? One of my employees has asked me to write a recommendation on LinkedIn, if they were fired – could our organization be sued?

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JUNE 24, 2005

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. m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires. Describe the history of copyright law which go this in 1994: ???Computer

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JUNE 22, 2007

Legal Fundamentalist: it breaches copyright, ??? Vendor Fundamentalist: we must use next version of our enterprise system (and you must fit in with this). Accessibility Fundamentalist: we must do WAI WCAG. User Fundamentalist: must do whatever users want. Ownership Fundamentalist: must own everything we use.

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JUNE 24, 2005

" (about copyright issues). " "I love computers and get paid to play with computers. Surf and call it research" "Lawyers charge by the hour to tell you they don't know and follow up with a 20 page memo." Technorati Tags: ilaw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment. Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.

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MARCH 28, 2007

Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. Brett Gaylor is a amazing! His newest project is Open Source Cinema.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

Lucy Chilli's Copyright and Commons Publishing Game. Participants are encouraged to bring their own open content ideas, questions and challenges to the dialog So, for demonstration of the value of open content, I am remixing two existing games for these session: The Social Media Game from David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) second enclosure???--the the privatizing of the cultural commons--might ask ourselves what it is we are trying to protect. have been called into being to protect and enhance revenues; it???s s about the money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

You should also keep an eye on licensing and copyright. Some people wanted to submit in Powerpoint (which wouldn't have been very viral!) Be prepared for techy questions/problems and to help solve them to maximise your entries. We made it clear that our contest was using a Creative Commons License and recommended using Revver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request. The question made think about the word " attribution " which is an important concept in the Creative Commons license. The license deed and language do not specify what that means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

They are using copyrighted music, but give a big disclaimer and plea to support those musicians by buying their music. For a less technically savvy user, I wonder about the lack of over to describe what is being viewed on the screen and the user's understanding of how to use it. There is a link to the download and the written instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

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. There is some irony to this story. I've now become convinced. of the power of the "by" license and had just turned my default to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Now, if we can’t publish a book in Assamese, but a teacher in Assam wants to do so, she doesn’t have to worry about copyright infringement. In our attempt to do so, we have managed to license some of our books under Creative Commons licenses. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2004

In finding that the defense of parody applied to the allegations of infringement of copyright , the court said : "However one may feel about his message - whether he is wrong or right, whether his methods are powerful or banal - his photographs parody Barbie and everything Mattel's doll has come to signify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

While it is crucial to move from the copyright default of 'all rights reserved' to the CC default of 'some rights reserved' there are problems whenever we try to control (and therefore restrict) future use of anything digital. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. And then they go away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. There are beer widgets that create foamy heads in a canned beer, with the first one patented by Guiness. A reference to gadget in the Delta Airlines Logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

YouTube keeps the copyright, some others don't. There is also an opportunity to team up with a corporate sponsor to offer a prize consistent with your mission and their products. Ownership of content advice: " It will depend on what you want to do with the videos. Then check with a lawyer."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Full of copyright issues. Interactive. Collaborating. Data easy to reuse. Don't learn difficult technology first, wait until it becomes easier. I loved how these matched what I presented as the themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page , to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

The passage of SOPA and PIPA by the United States Congress and Senate would force social media platforms and other web sites that host user-generated content to pro-actively monitor and censor users to prevent them from posting words or images that may violate copyrights. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S,

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