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Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy 

Candid

Within the social sector, AI is a powerful tool for fundraising , researching, grantwriting , and maximizing organizational impact. But as with any tool, we need to agree as an organization on how we use it. Some risks are rooted in the machine-learning data that AI tools are trained on.

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Free Report on Nonprofits and Copyright

Tech Soup

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. PICT was in an uncomfortable middle ground: the company used union artists and performed copyrighted works, but lacked the Met's clout. I find the three companies' stories interesting.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Some people say we're in the midst of a revolution where the new tools of social media are reinventing social activism in vital ways. Do you have examples on this topic, has this happened to you?

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. Tools Web 2.0

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 And should it be on the tool list over at WeAreMedia? You can log in using OpenID.

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Nonprofits Blaze Virtual Trails in Second Life Mixed Reality Lounge

Tech Soup

Copyright © 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Tags: Accessible Technology E-Learning Running Your Organization Services Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 This post was originally published on The Huffington Post on June 8, 2009. The setting was an amphitheater filled with attendees from around the globe.

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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.” Why didn't they link to the original context?

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