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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

Nonprofits that want to connect with their constituents are almost obliged to participate on these networks. Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. So I’m on identi.ca now ( follow pearlbear ).

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Better Together: Collaboration and.

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Give and ye shall receive. Think outside the box to further your mission.

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Why didn't they include my name and blog name?

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