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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses.

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So You Think You Can Blog? Guidelines For New Bloggers

Care2

Your organization is starting a blog and you have all your ducks in a row. You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. Explain why you're blogging.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students. Thanks to lobbying from the American Foundation for the Blind and others, it's actually legal under the laws of the U.S.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

See3

Material placed in hollow or valley fills has been called waste; a term adopted by engineers over the years, but not waste in the connotation presented. Obvious isn’t it. And they say China is being Orwellian with language as they prepare for the Olympics.) Mining can be compared to road construction. Streams are not lost forever.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea. 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.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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