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10 Summer Fundraisers for 2018

NonProfit Hub

This type of fundraiser has the potential to draw a large crowd and raise tons of money through ticket sales, especially if the artist is relatively well-known. Note: most movies are protected by copyright law, so make sure you have the proper rights before a public screening! Take it to the comments! But be careful!

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Inside, they've hung many of Magritte's famous works, and, accompanying these works, they've placed dozens of contemporary sculptures and paintings that riff off of Magritte, making fun of him or paying homage to him or commenting on him. Example: "When we absolve curators of responsibility for defending our fair use rights."

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are using copyrighted music, but give a big disclaimer and plea to support those musicians by buying their music. Leave a comment. I need to do the same for screencasts. So, I've decided to start a weekly post "Screencast of the Week" using the tag "scotw" This screencast comes from FoxyTunes. Instructional.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! Full of copyright issues.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Are widgets useless foo foo or can they be used strategically to generate comments/discussion or attract new readers? What are a few good examples and how easy are they to install?

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