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Accessibility and ACTA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. These approaches usually lock out people with disabilities. Disability advocates should, at minimum, press for a seat at the ACTA table.

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Let Freedom Ring

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Today, 234 years after the start of the American Revolution, let’s not focus on the band playing our music. In our arguments over the war on terror and our Afghan policy we hear the sound of freedom. In our arguments over energy policy and off-shore drilling we hear the sound of freedom. Listen to the music we are making.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » State Department Gets Into the Web Video Game

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By comparison, Obama Girl’s music video, “ I Got a Crush. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. on Obama ,” has been viewed an estimated 100 million times.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » New York Times Deathwatch

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Reading it you get the sense that these folks just won’t face the music. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

see for example the post about blogging policy ). 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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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

Tech Soup

In the simplest terms, SOPA would've created a "de facto blacklist of sites accused of infringing on copyright," Reitman said. Let's say you or even one of your supporters remixed a video that included a sample of copyrighted music, and this video was linked from your website. Why Should You Care?