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#RiskyBusiness: Risk Management for Nonprofits: Copyright

Blue Avocado

The web designer finds a great image that embodies your nonprofit’s mission exactly. The web designer downloads the image from a website of a nonprofit that does similar work, and the other nonprofit has provided an email saying they don’t mind if you use the image. Your nonprofit is building a website. True or false: […].

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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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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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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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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

.orgSource

Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. Unique web and mobile engagement strategies have empowered the Turnaround Management Association to engage members with dynamic experiences and personalized content at all stages of their professional journey. How do we stay on track and meet our goals?

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 18th).

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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law! Just last month, he helped me solve a knotty trademark and web domain challenge. I went to Gerry with the idea for Bookster.

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