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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

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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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Third, the print book is not universally accessible. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. A new copyright exception has been adopted nationwide just a couple of years earlier, the Chafee Amendment (also known as Section 121).

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has adopted a cyber strategy in its own development that is sustainable and scalable. 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.

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