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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. of America v.

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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

Candid

While we are definitely not experts (every day we discover something new), we wanted to share what we have learned over the past year doing social media video. You can use free tools like MusicallyDown or SnapInsta. Today, we are celebrating our first anniversary of short-form video on TikTok , Instagram Reels , and YouTube Shorts.

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos. But is it legal?

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

ASU Lodestar Center

Second, use tools and practices. The cards focus on strengths-based reflections and are an easy tool to get meetings started on a positive note, even if you are discussing challenging issues. Remember, you are not alone and there are resources, tools and practices that you can access to help in your good work.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s definitely a thing to watch. There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Twitter Dashboards and the Dark Side of.

ASU Lodestar Center

With the explosion of micro-blogging, the nonprofit world has a fantastic new tool to connect with the public in exciting and creative ways. It is hard to create an organizational presence/persona with some of these tools, which are so inherently personal. But what happens when bad tweets happen to good nonprofits?

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