Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2012
We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Like almost all libraries, we're scrupulous in following the law, because we're serving incredibly important communities. But, we're not for piracy. Don't Break the Internet!
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. We are in pretty good company.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 28, 2005
When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? And what if they put their paper into wikipedia. What if student goes to wikipedia and posts an article about Jamaica and helps tourism."
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
APRIL 20, 2006
This use of the copyright law to encourage copying is refered to in FOSS circles as Copyleft. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law. Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 14, 2007
Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.
Care2
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.
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