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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

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While we are definitely not experts (every day we discover something new), we wanted to share what we have learned over the past year doing social media video. We asked Candid staff who participated in video production to share what they learned; here are our top five lessons. There are a couple reasons why we do this.

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

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The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.

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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth

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I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Second, Bookshare now serves well over 300,000 members with qualified print disabilities.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), 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. We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it!

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation.

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