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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Economically, open looks better than closed

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Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Speaking of open social networks …

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is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. Be Helpful. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Happy Valentine’s Day from the Onion

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Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! 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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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. Be Helpful. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it. Uck.They still don’t get it.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » America’s Giving Challenge

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Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. Very much appreciate your help! Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » America’s Giving Challenge – Beth Wins Again

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If you didn’t help Beth win, you can still give $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation online and help kids in Cambodia.) Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! The whole giving competition thing is complicated and I am not sure it’s healthy.

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