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In-Kind Donations 101: A Guide for Nonprofits

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Donors providing different services or expertise can also qualify as an in-kind donation. The different types of in-kind donations can be useful for all nonprofits, but one type may be more helpful than others depending on your cause and the type of fundraisers you host. However, an in-kind donation doesn’t need to be a physical item.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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Migel, whose experiences with blindness caused during World War I, led to him helping start the Foundation. Even back then, we included information about his service in the box of each Arkenstone Reader because we knew people would rather not have to scan a book before reading it! It was named for the first board chair of AFB, M.C.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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Protecting Community Resource Data

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Moreover, raising money specifically for data management is much more difficult than raising funds for particular causes. Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. This does not mean that data should be kept private and self-contained.

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AI in Marketing and Art

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Media Cause employs talented, world-class designers who can illustrate or mock-up just about any concept you can think of. I asked Rob Shaw, Art Director at Media Cause , for his thoughts on the implications of text-to-image technology: . Learn more about our design services. What does AI art mean for designers? Rights Issues.

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Lame spam of the day: Notice from WesternUnion) : Account Deactivate.

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First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. -. Be sure to check back with us often as we add exciting new services to meet your financial needs. This one is kind of funny.

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