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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. My idea was completely legal!

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

, thanks to our Creative Commons license. 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. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license?

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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!

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