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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium.

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

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Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The anti remix message: The exhibition policy on photos: no photos are allowed in the exhibit. Yes, that's the problem with the fair use concept as currently expressed in the US copyright code, but that's another article altogether -- one that should be written by someone who does their legal research a lot better.

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Knowmore.org Firefox Extension Empowers Consumers - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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If you want to join the community, you can download the Knowmore Firefox extension here. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Post a Comment | by Share Article in Misc. Online Organizing , Technology Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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How Unused Gift Cards Can Support Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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August 16, 2009 | gratis downloaden Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. From here: [link] -habeyhl (Follow me on Twitter - @habeyhl) June 24, 2009 | habeyhl Great idea, thanks for this tip! All rights reserved.

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Despite Newer Technologies, Email Remains Number One - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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