Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 20, 2010
In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. Benetech's recommendation is to apply intellectual property to unmet social needs, by encouraging WEF stakeholders to think beyond solely profitable applications.
Care2
DECEMBER 26, 2011
Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? It then leads you to another link and after a while you finally see a clause that says “Facebook does not give third party applications or ad networks the right to use your name or picture in ads. Here’s why.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
APRIL 20, 2006
This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Adobe Creative Cloud.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 24, 2005
The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. The license: ???I???m m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires. The license is ???GPL???
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 18, 2007
the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.
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