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Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A

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Nonprofits often create content for awareness, fundraising, or educational purposes, and understanding copyright principles is essential. Register Now The post Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. And, if a copyright holder doubts that your organization meets the requirement in making an accessible copy, they are welcome to file a legal complaint of copyright infringement and make the case. I'm not aware of any litigation in the U.S. The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

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The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is today, December 3rd.

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12 Ideas for a Virtual Fundraiser or Online Event

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Carefully evaluate each idea so you can choose the one that will bring you the most money and awareness for the least investment of time and money. Check into copyright issues and get permission if you are selling tickets. But not all of them are right for you. Or they may not be right for you right now.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken. First, we are working to lower the barrier to the use of strong encryption to automatically protect the privacy of sensitive information. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution.

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