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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

NOTE : Your group or organization's contact person must be an authorized representative of your group who has all right, power, and authority to bind the group to these Official Rules for purposes of this Challenge. (b) government (" U.S. Complete the challenge submission form with all required information.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. If any single publisher or author of any one of the more than 130,000 accessible books in our library gets antsy, they can send a notice to VISA and MasterCard and say, stop money from going to Benetech and Bookshare.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. So, we shouldn’t have anything to fear from a bill entitled “Stop Online Piracy Act,” right? And then they go away.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The authors present a two-by-two matrix. As the author William Gibson famously noted, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States.

Change 100
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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction.

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