Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. The growing adoption of wikis in educational. It's messy.

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